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Famous knife grinder's marriage ends in divorce

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-05-09 11:49

The speedy marriage between a knife grinder and a woman four years ago made lots of headlines but it recently ended on a sad note.

He Shunmin, 53, of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, met Liu Yongping, a media planner who arranged to put a personals ad on He's knife-grinding tricycle.

It attracted lots of media attention and hundreds of responses from women.

Liu provided a free wedding and banquet and helped He married Fu Maoqiong, just three days he met her.

The planned marriage, however, ended four-years later and was filled with disputes and quarrels, they said.

(West China Metropolis Daily)