Pressure of Chinese Young Generation

Before Christmas, I have stayed in Beijing for a short time to visit my sister and my mom. One of their relative also lives at my sister's house. From her situation, it tells part of the stress situation of Chinese young generation.

She is 27 and graduated last year with a Bachelor's Degree. She majored in some kind of law (her father has a law firm). She started internship last year in a magazine company for law, after she graduated she stayed in the same company works as an editor. Her salary is 1500 Chinese Yuan per month(about EURO170?). Due to the expensive rental in Beijing, she lives with my sister and her family all the times.

She was very upset at this time. Not only because of the job, also because she is already 27 but has no boyfriend yet. She has been to many blind dates but come to nothing.

I know her since years. I thought she got a very good character. She is not a material girl, and she looks forward a real love, not a man who has a good car and house. She is also not ugly.

She is not the only one I know who is frustrating and depressing. At this moment in China, the first 'one-child' generation is grown up. They started to get married and have their own children. The problem is coming. Because the incomplete social system, most Chinese have no healthy and social insurance. The couple both are from one-child family have to take responsibilities of their own child plus four parents.

I am the lucky one because I am not the only child in my family. That's why I don't have to worry even though at this moment my mom is sick and staying in hospital. If I don't have sister and brother, maybe I can not even come to live in Germany.

Differences between Chinese and Germans

Since I am living in Germany, I often compare things between China and Germany. I found the two cultures have many habbits and characters in opposite ways.

Just now I found a funny post on the Internet, which showed the differences between Germans and Chinese in photos. The first photo is the habbits of German and the second photo is for Chinese.Three meals a day
Interpersonal relationship
Mood and weather
Life Style
Transportation(comparasion of year 1970 and 2006)
Life of old age
Selfhood
Weekend on the street
Child
Standards of beauty
Drinks when having stomachache Punctuality
Travelling
Queuing
Taking shower
Imaginary of the other side(German and Chinese)
Expressing opinion
Party
Decibel in restaurant
Dealing problems
Handling of new things
Handling of anger
Fashion
Leader

New Year's Eve

Yesterday the temperature in Frankfurt has reached 15°C. It was very sunny looked like spring is coming, that reminds me that I still have some photos in the camera which are taken from the cold Eve of New Year.

We spent this New Year's Eve at a friend's hause. It was my first time to spend New Year in Germany. Last Year Martin and I were in Milan. Chinese New Year is Chinese Spring Festival, this year it will be on 3nd February 2011 (lunar calender). 01.01.2011 is an national holiday for Chinese as well, but no celebrations.
At 12 o'clock we went outside to drink champagne and watch fireworks. The neighbours of our friend played a lot of fireworks. The whole city was just as noisy as in Chinese cities at Spring Festival' Eve. This was suprised me, because I thought Germans don't like such noisy things.












Cheers! "einen Guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr" people say each other in German.

When I turned back around, Martin wrote some sweet wolds on the car. I wished the snow will never melt away. Even though the worlds were gone on the next day, but I have captured the evidence.
Here I am.............This is how I look like in winter in Germany.