First Person|People more open to different lifestyle choices

Ling Zi, a 52-year-old consultant on marital issues, is also a member of the Zhejiang Mental Health Promotion Association.

It was unimaginable for Chinese couples of my generation to get married without a meeting of parents from both sides. Spending Spring Festival at whose parents' home was also never a question, as most couples followed the tradition of celebrating the festival with the husband's family.

These might result from people's low mobility at the time, when people were born and raised in a city or town and then went on to work, find spouses and live there. Against that backdrop, the home of a husband's parents was usually not far from that of his wife.