Chinese Daily Photos, 2011 to 2019!
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solarz
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What's going on is that Chinese parents love to meddle in their kids' lives, and insist on "helping" them find a spouse. In China, there's a saying: marriage is not between two people, but rather two families.
You might also be surprised to learn that most of those ads are from the parents of women, and they're almost always women with higher education.
I kinda sorta knew your first statement. But the last part of your post is surprising to me.
Bottom line.. girls are looking for a mate.
Looks like the US Capitol ..not the White House.
Miragedriver
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Paramilitary police officers stand guard for the Long Ma performance on a hazy night in Beijing
Picture: REUTERS/Jason Lee
A mechanical dragon horse spews fire during a performance between the Bird's Nest National Stadium and Water Cube (at rear) in Beijing
Picture: GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images
A pro-democracy protester sleeps over a barricade at the Mongkok shopping district of Hong Kong
Picture: REUTERS/Carlos Barria
Mysterious black sand pollutes Silver Sands Beach in Qingdao, China. Local authorities have not been able to provide a reason for the sand's appearance
Picture: Rex
A UFO-shaped cloud above Xiamen city, Fujian province, ChinaPicture: HAP/Quirky China News/REX
I will now get back to bottling my Malbec
Blackstone
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Fan Bingbing looks great in that stylized Tang Dynasty "queen style" custom.
Miragedriver
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A Long March-4C carrier rocket carrying the Yaogan-22 remote sensing satellite blasts off from the launch pad at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province. The satellite will be used for scientific experiments, natural resource surveying, estimating crop yields and disaster relief.
Picture: Xinhua News Agency/REX
A massive pumpkin pie weighing 931.5 kilograms has been created by 40 cooks at the Windows of the World theme park in Changsha, China. Cranes and other heavy lifting equipment were also on site to assist the process. The 40 cooks prepared piles of pumpkins, dates, raisins and sugar, totalling one ton of ingredients. The finished pumpkin pie measured 4 metres in diameter, was 65 centimetres thick and weighed a total of 931.5 kilograms.
Picture: Imaginechina/REX
A 4100-metre-long wedding dress train has been unveiled in Chengdu, Sichuan province. The long wedding dress train, which is 1.5-metres-wide, cost about 40,000 yuan (£4000) and one month to make. The owner is planning to write to the Guinness World Records to see if it is the longest, local media reported.
Picture: REUTERS
I will now get back to bottling my Malbec
Miragedriver
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Wingsuit fliers are seen competing during the 3rd Red Bull WWL China Grand Prix on Tianmen Mountain in China
Picture: ImagineChina/Rex
A woman dismantles an ATM after it swallows her card in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, China. The woman has been dubbed a Kung Fu master online as she dismantled an ATM machine with her bare hands. She was seen using the machine at Jinsha Mall at around 6pm when her card was swallowed. Witnesses said the woman walked back and forth in front of the machine for a few minutes before rushing at it and starting to tear it apart. Police were called and the woman was detained. The bank that owns the ATM has said that they will be charging her for the damage caused.
Picture: Rex
A lottery winner who scooped an enormous 520 million Yuan chose to wear a cartoon costume in order to remain anonymous when collecting his prize. China's charity fund lottery center said this is the third largest lottery sum in China's lottery history.Picture: HAP/Quirky China News/REX
I will now get back to bottling my Malbec
I think these are anti-occupy demonstrators that want the streets cleared. Can someone please translate their signs? Thanks!
Just a little acting. He's not dead.
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