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Like other MMORPG games, this game involves various complex systems to service players, including chat system, workshop system which comprises equipment workshop, trading workshop, collecting workshop and official workshop, other systems include faction system, mount system, raising system, Sutra system, household system, business system, constellation system, marriage system, friend system, masters and apprentices system and diamond system. All of these systems construct the fantasy world. Players are not only grinding everyday, but also could communicate with other players, raise their business, organizing factions, owning houses and placing furniture, getting marriage even raising babies etc. The game world is a virtual society; it imitates real Chinese traditional society based on traditional Chinese culture. It is impossible to present all the complex systems in this paper. However, due to the unique Chinese culture context, the marriage system and raising system will be presented in this paper for demonstrating traditional Chinese customs about marriage. The process of traditional Chinese marriage is perfectly displayed in the game. We might find some inspirations from the game by examining how the game applies traditional culture into game play.

The process of marriage in Westward Journey Online ? contains six steps which named six rites in Chinese. The traditional Chinese marriage emphasizes on rites rather than love. So the six rites are indispensable and crucial, the marriage will not be agreed by one side if one of six rites are neglected in ancient China. The first stage is to present betrothal gifts like marriage proposal in Western countries. Male players could go to meet the match maker who plays an important role during Chinese marriage called red lady in Chinese in Chang'an where is the biggest city in the game. The player could make his proposal from the match marker and then will get reply from her in 72 hours. The very important thing is the bride price, the male player need to determine how much money to pay to the girl for marriage. This custom is followed until now. The second step is to place names of couple in front of ancestral altar which commonly referred to match the date of both young man and girl. The date of birth of girl will send to man's home and place in front of ancestral altar for observing for three days, and then man's date of birth also needs to be sent to girl's home if there are bad things which include being stolen, family members get illness, some items are broken etc happen during these days, the marriage will be cancelled. Due to the impossible realization of the second stage in the game, it is directly ignored in Westward Journey Online ?. The third and fourth stages are to send the betrothal gift to girl's family. First, the good result of divination will be sendt to girl's home accompanying with a symbol gift which usually is a goose, because the goose is a kind of migratory birds and conforms to the concept male and female principle, and if a goose lost his or her partner, it will never form another pair again. Ancient Chinese employed the goose's loyal and dependable characteristics in hope to the happy wedding lasting prosperity to their both. After the first gift of a goose, next betrothal gifts will be s本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。