Single people in China have come up with an innovative way of pleasing their pushy parents during the annual Chinese New Year holiday – they are renting fake dates.
Advertisements posted by people seeking to pay young men or women to come home with them for Spring Festival are scattered all over popular Web portals.
“For 500 yuan ($104) a day, you don’t have to sleep with me, I can sleep on the floor in the same room, but you have to be a good actress,” one man said yesterday on baidu.com, under the heading “Looking to rent a girlfriend”.
A lot of 20-something Chinese have no siblings due to the nation’s one-child policy, and many come under heavy pressure to marry in their late 20s. “My parents are pushing too hard,” said a posting under the title “desperately looking for a girlfriend to go home with me for Chinese New Year”.
It added: “I’m searching for a girl around 23 years old (and not more than two years below or above that), 160 to 175 centimetres high, average looking is OK”.
Other people have posted advertisements offering their services to accompany desperate singletons home.
According to the state-run Global Times, a female student at the prestigious Peking University offered in a posting 10,000 yuan a day to rent a date. She said in her posting that her parents had told her to bring a man home or “you can forget about coming home for the holiday”.
bron: www.todayonline.com, AFP
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