Blog Tag - Love

Why Lantern Festival is the "True" Chinese Valentine’s Day
Lantern Festival (元宵节 yuán xiāo jié), considered the climax of the Chinese New Year holiday, is celebrated on the 15th day of the first lunar month...
Confessing Your Love on Qixi? Choose Your Lines Wisely
As you may have heard, it's that lovey-dovey time of year again. Yes, I am talking about Qixi, the Chinese Valentine’s Day. Besides treating your...
Guilty of Being Hot: China's New Dating Craze Involves Courting in the Courtroom
There isn’t anything in this world more tantalizing than a cold plate of justice. That is why, disillusioned by the oversaturation of online...
Stuck at the Conversation with Chinese? Try These Starters to Break the Ice
Striking up a conversation with a complete stranger can be awkward, nerve-wracking, and especially challenging when it's with someone who doesn't...
Eat Your Heart out This Valentine's Day With Beijing's Best Restaurant Deals
Valentine's Day is fast approaching and to take the stress out of choosing where to treat that special someone to dinner, we have put together a...
Beijing's Youth Average Age to Lose Virignity Lower Than Rest of China: China's 2015 Love and Marriage Survey is Released
Young Beijingers are the first among their Chinese peers to have sex, losing their virginity at an average age of less than 21, while while those...
Video: Mamahuhu's "Western Couples Vs. Chinese Couples"
We've had a few chuckles here in the Beijinger office Friday afternoon (Ed's note: not as rare as an occurrence as this makes it sound) and we...
How to Celebrate Valentine's Day with Chinese Characteristics
Spring Festival isn't putting as a much of a crimp in many couples' styles this year, but some early departures may still keep lovebirds apart on...
Dos and Don'ts for Chinese Valentine's Day
It's Saturday morning, and suddenly you find yourself on the receiving end of the cold shoulder from your girlfriend. She didn't care particularly...
Don't Eat So Much! Eat More! Chinese Girlfriends and Their Top 10 Complaints About Foreign Boyfriends
No relationship is perfect, and no one in a relationship is a less perfect than the foreign man dating the Chinese woman. This is summed up by an...
Beijing Lovers Rejoice: City is a Cheap Place for a Cheap Date
Good news, Beijingers! Aside from all the other many benefits of living in Beijing, the city was just found to be less expensive for dating than...
Talking Entertainment: Get Mad Paid as a Professional Pornography Enforcer
After a new government initiative to wage war on erotic content in the mainland, through the "Cleaning the Web 2014" campaign, tech companies are...
Classified of the Week: A Match Made In Heaven
Every day the Beijinger gets a swarm of interesting, appropriate (and not-so-appropriate), and sometimes just downright weird classified ads from...
The Lighter Side of China: Marital Advice for Mixed Marriages
The Lighter Side of China began as a series of blogs written by author Scott Kronick that chronicled the experiences of living in China as an expat...
14 Dumbest Things Guys Can do to Ruin a First Date
First dates are important: it is either a good date or a bad date. There are no such so-so dates in between. Good dates can happen in many ways: by...