Hujing hu’ai 互敬互爱 (1957)

On the occasion of the upcoming colorful and joyous Christmas the text of this month features an occasional found on a flea market in Nanjing in 2013, a marriage certificate. The first one handed out to the husband in no way differs from the one of the wife (except the order of names). The fact that Nanjing city authorities already issued two copies of the same marriage certificate shows that by the year 1957 gender equality was already recognized by state authorities, after all the imprint in the middle reads hujing hu’ai 互敬互爱, or „Respect each other, love each other“, fashioning romance in a socialist sense.