Society

To save face, hire a girlfriend!

By Coldness Kwan (Chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2006-08-25 17:32

"A beautiful girlfriend wanted for National Day holiday", reads a post on the online forum of a university in Shanghai Municipality, the Chongqing Evening News reported.

The writer, surnamed Li, was invited to a friend's wedding ceremony during this National Day holiday starting Oct. 1st and he had hoped to hire a girlfriend to go with him. "The girl must be good-looking and no less than 1.65 meters tall," Li wrote.

Li is fresh out of university this year with a very good job. But the young man said he was dogged by wisecracks from his schoolmates at get-togethers because he doesn't have a girlfriend yet.

"The girl I want to hire can't be beautiful enough. I want her to make everyone at the wedding ceremony jealous," Li wrote.

Li, however, is not alone. Lately many recent university graduates are borrowing designer clothes or even cars for schoolmate's parties.

A sociology teacher at East China Normal University said it is normal to see students in different stages of life after graduation because they have chosen different roads, but those who are fresh from university don't have significant differences so they don't need to save face.