How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. How about 52,000 RMB (US$8,300) worth of origami hearts? One husband in Wenzhou posted on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, photos of the Valentine’s Day gift he plans to give to his wife — 520 origami hearts, each made out of a 100 RMB note. The 100 [...]
“If love between the two is eternal, why do they have to be together day and night?” (“两情若是久长时，又岂在朝朝暮暮?”) Depicting the love between the Cowherd and the Weaver girl, two stars separated by the Milky Way, this famous verse written by 11th century poet Qin Guan has seized the imaginations of Chinese readers for centuries. Legend [...]
We can’t get enough of Valentine’s Day here at Tea Leaf Nation. “Share your Valentine’s Day gift” is one of the hottest trending topics on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, and that allows us to peek into netizen’s microblogs to bring you some of the sweetest and funniest gifts exchanged on V-day in China. @头条博客 reports that in [...]
Valentine’s Day has come to an end in China. By all accounts, it’s not an easy place to find love. In the last two months, Tea Leaf Nation has told the story of a woman who almost killed herself after her husband cheated on her, detailed the romantic travails of Chinese men who make (gasp!) [...]
Cupid would never make the grade at Pingdingshan City’s Experimental Middle School in Henan province. @丁灏轩 recently started an uproar on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, when he claimed to be a student at the school (literally, a “high middle school,” usually having the equivalents of both junior high and high school in the U.S.) and [...]
Mothers, lock up your daughters! Or maybe that’s a job best left to a police force that netizens have described as “handsome” and “dreamy.” On February 6, with Valentine’s Day around the corner, Chengdu’s Wuhou district police station released a series of posters on Weibo, China’s Twitter, profiling the single men on their rescue squad, [...]
China’s netizens were heartbroken when they found out that the über-popular foreign beauty Siri, the Apple of the world’s eye, doesn’t speak Chinese (yet). But fear not; love-starved techies in China have found a girl next door for their amorous attention. The 10086 SMS customer service hotline provided by China Mobile (no, it’s not a 1-900 [...]
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