请用英语叙述人们对于爱情和婚姻在过去和现在不同的态度

The present attitude to love and marriage is quite different from the past. In the part, at the old saying goes, “parents’ orders and gobetweens’ words” are the decisive issue of love and marriage between men and women. Boys and girls were not allowed to be serious with each other before marriage. They had to listen to their parents and gobetweens and the weddings were arranged by the boys parents. Mostly we can say two strangers, a boy and a girl, got married at the weding. After marriage, the wife was kept at home and the duty of a wife was to help the husband and teach the chidren. Naturally many unhappy things occurred between husband and wife，and between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law as well. We can roughly say, “marriage first, love behind. Maybe there was no love.”

But after liberation, love and marriage have been greatly changed. First our government have issued the Marriage Law. Men and woman have equal rights. They are free from the feudal shackle and be the master of their own destiny. They can talk love, and they can choose the one he or she loves. They can be serious with each other. Then they get married and form a happy family. We can say, “love first, marriage behiand”