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Society: Foreigners get help with potential mothers-in-law

Planning a trip with your Chinese girlfriend to visit her parents during Spring Festival and feeling nervous about what to say? Here comes the "Special team for managing future mothers-in-law". The five members of the team are overseas students in China learning festival routines, including writing couplets using Chinese calligraphy, reciting poems and practicing festival greetings in Chinese. They are based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Spring Festival falls on Feb 16 this year.