Marriage

据说源于唐代的一段故事。

唐代有一个名士，名叫麦爱新，他看到自己的妻子年老色衰，便产生了嫌弃老妻，再纳新欢的想法，并写了一副上联放在案头：
荷败莲残，落叶归根成老藕。

被他的妻子看到了，妻子从对联中看到了丈夫弃老纳新的念头，于是便提笔续了一副下联：
禾黄稻熟，吹糠见米现新粮。

以 “禾稻” 对 “荷莲” ，以 “新粮” 对 “老藕” ，不仅对得十分工整贴切，新颖通俗，而且，“新粮” 与 “新娘” 谐音，饶有风趣。麦爱新读了妻子的下联，被妻子的才思敏捷和爱心所打动，便放弃了弃旧纳新的念头。

妻子见丈夫回心转意，不忘旧情，乃挥笔写道：老公十分公道。
麦爱新也挥笔写了下联：老婆一片婆心。

这个带有教育意义的故事很快被流传开来，世代传为佳话。
从此便有了“老公” 和 “老婆” 这两个词。民间也有了夫妻间互称 “老公” 和 “老婆” 的习俗。

What is actually marriage? Just an insurance for your love with your partner? Just a contract to live together with your partner? That's what the world usually think, but marriage is more than that.

For the husband is the head of the wife
as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Now as the church submits to Christ,
so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies.
He who loves his wife loves himself.
After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it,
just as Christ does the church - for we are members of his body.
Ephesians 5:23-25, 28-30

Marriage is an institute that establish by God in the beginning,
which is a profound mystery (cf. Ephesus 5:32),
that points to the relationship between Christ and His church.

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For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife,
and they will become one flesh.
Genesis 2:24