Chinese dating show

You are young Chinese man whose father tells you the most important skill his future daughter in law must have is caring for her home and family. Your mother rejects a 40 year old woman as your potential mate because she may be too old to bear children.

It has drawn viewers and generated lively discussions on China's social networks.A weibo page for the show has been visited 177 million times, and the first three episodes had more than 200 million views online.

The top rated if you are the one turned several contestants into celebrities through their provocative statements, such as I d rather cry in a BMW than laugh on a bicycle. What's different about show is that it gives parents power over their children's choices.

The presence of the parents, who are the decision makers in many young people s marriages, and their blunt opinions contribute to the show s appeal.

People like it because that's reality.

China s tradition of arranged marriages, in which family elders hired matchmakers to find spouses for their children.

Although arranged marriages were discouraged after the fall of the last imperial dynasty in 1911 and banned by the republican government in the 1930s, Chinese millennials, often portrayed as the excessively indulged and protected products of the one child family policy, now find their themselves yielding to parents who are ready to provide them with everything, even a spouse.

Too much protection and support from parents has given rise to a generation that has never really grown up.

Some comments on weibo agreed. China is a country full of grown up babies

But others say the show is only acknowledging the practicalities of finding a mate. It's better than breaking up after you have dated a while and found you don't get along well with each other's parents.