Dodging the Marriage Bullet during Spring Festival

For many young, unmarried Chinese people, the weeklong Spring Festival, the holiday also known as Chinese New Year, is a difficult time because they are bombarded with questions about marriage by nagging parents and relatives.

I had a hard time finding the right partner until I was 30, but my parents did not push me too hard. This might be because they were well-educated and open-minded, and also because I didn't grow up with them. Therefore, the community my parents lived in did not really know me. I only recently realized that the second reason was more important than the first.