A Chinese woman has gone viral after declaring that she prefers “high-quality singlehood” to a “low-quality marriage.”
The unidentified 36-year-old woman, who lives alone at home in Dalian, a city in China’s Liaoning province, said that I prefer to live alone and be independent. to commit to a relationship just for the sake of getting married.
In a video posted by star videoThe woman says she doesn’t subscribe to the belief that “marriage is a utopia or a guaranteed sanctuary,” adding that while marriage can offer stability and a home, it can also lead to less freedom.
“I think that nowadays women don’t live in the era of depending on men in marriage anymore, so I find my way to live my life,” she says.
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The woman shows off her slow-paced lifestyle in the video, lounging in her pajamas at home and cooking the meals she likes. Her story reportedly garnered more than 270,000 views and more than 27,000 comments from social media users.
Getting married at a certain age is a cultural norm in China. When a woman remains single after the age of 27, she is usually labeled “sheng nu” or “leftover woman”, a derogatory term used to describe single women.
The woman in the video is just one of many women in China who oppose the pressure to marry. According to China National Bureau of Statisticsthe number of Chinese who chose to remain single fell 41%, from 23.8 million in 2013 to 13.9 million in 2019.
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Although the Chinese government outlawed arranged marriage when it passed the New Marriage Law in 1950, the practice is still common in China today, with parents forcing their adult children to marry. Some parents even post ads in the “marriage market.”
Several social media users applauded the woman in the video for her independence. “I don’t judge her choice, since she is free to make her own decisions, but I support her so that she lives by herself,” wrote one user, according to South China Morning Mail.
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Others, however, disagreed with his life choices.
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“What will he do when he grows up? You won’t find anyone to keep you company,” wrote one user.
“She is selfish. If many people thought like her, where would the next generations come from? Another user reportedly commented.
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