Girls from Newar community of Nepal attend marriage ceremony

Source: Xinhua| 2018-12-16 08:00:11|Editor: Yang Yi
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NEPAL-KATHMANDU-CULTURE-BEL BIBAHA CEREMONY

A girl from the Newar community attends a Bel Bibaha ceremony in Kathmandu, Nepal, on Dec. 15, 2018. Bel Bibaha is a marriage ceremony in the Newar community of Nepal in which pre-adolescent girls are "married" to the bael fruit (wood apple). Normally Newar girls marry thrice in their life: the first marriage is with the bael fruit, the second with the sun, and the third with human. (Xinhua/Sunil Sharma)

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