媒人介绍是人类社会进入一夫一妻制婚姻时期较常见的一种择偶方式，它不仅在各民族的历史上是常见的一种择偶方式，而且也广泛流行于当今世界众多民族的婚姻习俗中。媒，解释是媒介的意思，在我国古代媒则含有谋略的意思。所谓“媒人”、“作媒”，即专指从中谋合，使两姓之家结为儿女亲家的人或事，媒人则逐渐成了介绍男女之间结成婚姻关系的人的代名词。
民间虽然存在自由恋爱之风，但强调父母之命、媒妁之言的聘娶婚是汉代婚姻形态的主流。
Although there was the general mood of free love among the people, the proper way of contracting a marriage was the command of parents and the good offices of a go-between.
当时依媒妁之言结婚非常普遍，而身为传统中产阶级家庭之子，甘地十三岁就与卡丝蒂白成婚。
Arranged marriages were a common practice at that time. As a son in a traditional middle-class family, he was wed to a girl named Kasturba when he was just thirteen.
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