Money can`t buy you love, but it can let you rent a girlfriend to take home for Chinese New Year.
It seems modern Chinese parents still make old-world demands on their adult offspring to hurry up and marry and
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So,
the pressure is on to arrive home for the holiday with a girlfriend in
tow. I say girlfriend because, statistically, marriageable-age men now
outnumber women of that age here.
For much of the past decade,
the media each year has reported on who rents girlfriends, how much it
costs to rent a girlfriend and how they carry off their holiday-only
charades in small towns and big cities across the country.
There was the story about
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the fake girlfriend who refused to return the money from "red envelope"
gifts handed out at a Chinese New Year party in Zhengzhou. The police
broke up their argument and persuaded the couple to split the money.
There
was the story about an engineer in Shanghai who rented a girlfriend,
but whose parents found out at the family reunion. There was the story
from Changsha about a "girlfriend" who kept forgetting her lines, to
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One
fellow told the media he attracted 400 applicants in three days when he
advertised on his Internet blog for a girl to take home to Xuzhou.
Daily pay rates, according to a variety of media reports, can range from
80 yuan to 3,000 yuan.
There are professional men in their 20s
and 30s who tell the media they`re too busy to find a real girlfriend,
or who can`t afford a girlfriend because they just graduated from
college. Other young men in search of a fake girlfriend tell the media
they just broke up with their real girlfriend and haven`t found a
replacement in time, or that their real girlfriends refused to go home
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If
I were a Chinese mom I might say, "Welcome home, dear. Is this your
real girlfriend or your fake girlfriend" when your son arrives home with
a good-looking girlfriend of just the right age who has the perfect
answers for all the anticipated questions.
If I were a Chinese
mother, I might say, "Dear, I`d like a 50-50 share of the fee you paid
your fake girlfriend, because I`m the one who also has to pretend she`s
real in front of your father, uncles and cousins."
I`m a mom,
too, and I suspect that our lie-detector skills are universal. We start
by learning what our babies` faces look like when they need to burp.
After more than 20 or 30 years of practice, most of us have come to know
what our children`s faces look like when they tell a lie.
But
then, there`s dad. This is the 21st century, and the whole world has
changed. No one expects young people in a tough global economy with
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Isn`t
it time to tell fathers the truth about fake girlfriends and mothers
who pretend to believe it? I suspect I might say, "No, not this year."
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