Jie married her 16-year-old husband Wen three days after they met during the Lunar New Year in 2014. After she was confirmed pregnant.

It sounds like a scene from China's feudal past, when early marriage was customary, especially for girls, but teenage brides and grooms aren't uncommon in some poor and rural parts of the country's hinterland.

Photographer Muyi Xiao met Jie and her husband Wen in the southwestern province of Yunnan in 2014.
Jie was the youngest of a number of young Chinese newlyweds she profiled in a tender and fascinating series of images that helped earn 24-year-old Xiao a prestigious photography fellowship with the Magnum Foundation.
"Every girl I saw in these villages got married before they were 18 and some of them were extremely young," says Xiao.
"It's like something they think is normal to do -- it comes from the teachers, from the parents, from the kids."

Jie didn't want to fall pregnant so soon after getting married but didn't know about birth control.
Xiao, who traveled in the region for 18 days, said the marriages didn't appear to be the result of parental pressure, nor a kneejerk response to an unexpected pregnancy.
"I didn't see any forced marriage. The kids are happy, they say they fell in love."
She said the teenagers she profiled weren't comfortable giving their full names.

In China, the legal age for marriage is 22 for men and 20 for women but there's no specific penalty for breaching the law, according to Jiang Quanbao, a professor from Xi'an Jiaotong University.
He says in rural areas many recognize a marriage as long as a couple holds a ceremony and banquet; official registration would take place once the couple were of age.

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This is what happens when a teen girl inappropriately discovers the bliss of sex marriage blues would be all over her head for as long as she doesn't suffer heartbreak

So, teen marriage is common there.
Even parents and teachers encourage it.
How long do they live there?

mtchew..they've gone astray.