More than 200 millions of Chinese adults are single today, although in the traditional Chinese culture family is the core of life. With the increasing competition and freedom in social life, the young prioritize generally education, career development and soul fit between the spouses. Many of them don't want to hurry to get marry, but want to take time to meet the right person. This state makes the older generations very worried. The older generations think commonly that the earlier the young find their partners, the higher possiblities they get good partners. With this opinion, they often press their children or grandchildren to get marry as early as possible.
Chinese New Year festival is a time for family reunion. The young people working far away from their hometowns use the festival holiday to visit their parents. But because of the anxiety of the older generations, the precious family reunion time for the single is usually filled with datings arranged by their parents and grandparents. Many of the single don't like the arrangements, but they dare not to say no, because they are afraid of hurting the persons they love very much. For them the most horrible in Chinese New Year holiday is not the crowded Chinese New Year transportation, but the irritating datings.
If there is market, there
must be business. The anxious older generations have caused a new service
occupation, that is, girlfriend/boyfriend renting. Some young people
voluntarily rent out themselves to be temporary girlfriends/boyfriends for the
single who want to avoid the nag and arranged dating from the older in their
families. This business appeared for several years ago, and has reached a
certain scale today. However, most of the practitioners work as independent freelancers.
They put their advertisements on social media to get customers. The prices this
year to hire a boyfriend are about 1000 - 1500 CNY per day. The actual prices
depend on the education, age, look, etc. of the boys. The main service item of
the hired boyfriends is visiting the girls' families together with the girls in
the Chinese New Year holiday. Till now, it is not usual that girls rent out
themselves to the boys. It is probably because there are more security dangers
for female renters. Related experts think that there are also potential
security dangers for the girls who hire boys, because it is possible that a boy
processes rape and sexual harassments when he is together with the female
employer. Fortunately, there have not been these kinds of cases reported these
years. After all, people take this occupation mainly for making money, and they
need good reputation to get more customers. In fact, some boys even claim
clearly in the contracts that they don't provide kiss and sex service to avoid
contract dispute. They call their services as green services.
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