200 strangers pack wedding banquet of shunned Chinese man, bringing roast pigs, private chefs

A groom in southwestern China who feared an empty wedding reception found himself surrounded by hundreds of supportive strangers after his online appeal went viral. Twenty-four-year-old Xu, from Zhaotong in Yunnan province, recently posted a video on Douyin inviting internet users to his wedding banquet on October 31. In the clip, Xu explained that he had grown up facing stigma…