lifestyle Archives - China Heralder https://chinaheralder.com/tag/lifestyle-2/ Voice of Great China Fri, 06 Oct 2023 21:54:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://chinaheralder.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/cropped-china-heralder-Favico-32x32.png lifestyle Archives - China Heralder https://chinaheralder.com/tag/lifestyle-2/ 32 32 Marriage Declines in China as Young Chinese Choose Dating, Staying Single https://chinaheralder.com/2023/10/26/marriage-declines-in-china-as-young-chinese-choose-dating-staying-single/ Thu, 26 Oct 2023 04:00:35 +0000 https://chinaheralder.com/?p=6045 The number of marriages falls from 13.5 million couples in 2013 to 6.8 million in 2022. China’s equivalent of Valentine’s Day, known as the Qixi Festival, has traditionally been considered an auspicious time for Chinese couples to get married. Celebrated annually on the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar, Qixi is […]

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]]> Why China’s Young People Are Quitting Their Jobs and Throwing ‘Resignation Parties’ https://chinaheralder.com/2023/10/18/why-chinas-young-people-are-quitting-their-jobs-and-throwing-resignation-parties/ Wed, 18 Oct 2023 21:43:16 +0000 https://chinaheralder.com/?p=6126 On the day Liang resigned from his banking job in China’s Zhejiang province, his friends threw a party and congratulated him by beating gongs and drums, in an echo of traditional marriage rituals. His friends, who had also quit their jobs, pinned a flower on Liang’s chest under a scarlet banner that read: “We’re done […]

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]]> Viral Wheelchair Riders in China Highlight Concerns Over E-Bike and Scooter Crackdown https://chinaheralder.com/2023/07/23/viral-wheelchair-riders-in-china-highlight-concerns-over-e-bike-and-scooter-crackdown/ Sun, 23 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000 https://chinaheralder.com/?p=5238 An unexpected alternative mode of transport is gaining attention this week in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, with videos circulating on social media of dozens of able-bodied youths cruising the streets on electric wheelchairs. It’s unclear to what extent people are actually starting to ride wheelchairs in the city, but the videos have soared […]

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]]> Chinese Tourists Are Traveling Again — but Not the Way They Used to https://chinaheralder.com/2023/03/30/chinese-tourists-are-traveling-again-but-not-the-way-they-used-to/ Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:18:00 +0000 https://chinaheralder.com/?p=4322 Chinese tourists are raring to travel again. But this time, the usual suspects — Venice, Paris and Madrid, for example — aren’t their top picks. As China’s reopening gains momentum after three years of Covid-19 restrictions, the country’s travel-hungry citizens are emerging much changed, according to the Chinese Outbound Tourism Research Institute, an independent consulting company […]

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]]> China’s school campuses resume liveliness as spring semester kicks off https://chinaheralder.com/2023/03/13/chinas-school-campuses-resume-liveliness-as-spring-semester-kicks-off/ Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:09:24 +0000 https://chinaheralder.com/?p=3980 About 300 million teachers and students are returning to school campuses across China, as the spring semester kicks off in a staggered manner in each provincial-level region. The new school term is the first semester after China downgraded its management of COVID-19 from Class A to Class B on Jan. 8. Chinese Vice Premier Sun […]

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