Shanghai Holds 10,000 People Matchmaking Fair

Hanging signs advertising the basic information of single women at Shanghai's First Annual Matchmaking Fair in Songjiang Thames Town, attracting over 9000 single women and men looking for love and marriage.

From NetEase:

Shanghai holds 10,000 person blind date event

November 12th, Shanghai’s “First Matchmaking Fair” was held at the Songjiang New City Thames Town. This two-day “marriage fair” attracted 5000 females and 4000 males to register and participate, making it truly a “10,000 people blind date event”.

A single Chinese woman engaged in speed-dating at the First Annual Matchmaking Fair in Shanghai.

Crowds of single Chinese men and women at the Shanghai First Annual Matchmaking Fair.

A young Chinese man chats with single Chinese woman at Shanghai's first annual Matchmaking Fair.

Basic information of participants in Shanghai's matchmaking fair.

Comments from NetEase:

警告你艹你没资格代表我 [网易山东省网友]:

Wow, a bunch of frogs and dinosaurs having a date, with Ultraman hosting.

明天到操场操到天明 [网易浙江省杭州市网友]:

I bet their opening statements are all: How much money do you make per month? Where did you buy your house? What car do you drive? You don’t plan on living with your parents after getting married, right?

zaqwsxccc [网易陕西省榆林市网友]:

Of the people who are over 30 and have not yet married, the vast majority do not have serious attitudes towards life.

ko110ko [网易广东省江门市网友]:

If I can sit on the sofa, everyone help by ding’ing me. Every time you ding, a corrupt official dies. [As of translation, this comment was ding'd 1445 times.]

邪先生 [网易美国网友]:

Looks like Shanghai’s hotels will definitely be filled to the max tonight…

圣9仙芙 [网易浙江省温州市网友]:

Women born in 1969 and 1976? The age of Shanghai’s leftover women are always at the forefront of the nation… Even those of grandmother level have all come out for matchmaking.

苦力一号想变旺财一号 [网易云南省昆明市网友]:

Qie! Isn’t it just men picking whores and women picking rich men?

黄易编外人员 [网易湖南省长沙市网友]:

The meat-market fair now begins…

猴屁股紫红 [网易山东省临沂市网友]:

These Shanghai women were all dumped by black men who no longer wanted them.

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  • NoOneHere

    So close and yet sofa

    • Koji Kabuto

      I take this stool, good enough for me! still in the front. ha!

  • mr. weiner

    Sofa!!! Can’t believe I finally got it!

    • mr. weiner

      damn 2nd as usual

      • Don

        lol u could have been first if u had a faster interned speed

  • typingfromwork

    That is not quite 10,000.

    And they held it in a ghost town, of all places.

    • http://wtchina.freeforums.org Elijah

      Well, it’s still….

      OVER 9000!!!!!

      [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7liYfhRgXGk&w=420&h=315
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7liYfhRgXGk

      I’ll go sit in the corner now…

      • http://wtchina.freeforums.org Elijah

        How do some people embed youTube videos here sometimes? I’m obviously a n00b on this…

        • PeterScriabin

          You could right-click on the web-page with the magic you crave, select “View Page Source” (or similar browser-dependent text), and search for text in the area. Then look at the HTML used.

          Apologies for not doing it for you, but I’d have to find an embedded video…

  • wangweng

    do you have a house?
    What is your job?
    What is your income?

    The most important questions that determines if the couples are suitable.

    • http://wtchina.freeforums.org Elijah

      Yeah, I’m wondering if it’s overt or covert prostitution…..

      http://wtchina.freeforums.org/overt-vs-covert-prostitution-t38.html

      A lot of “leftovers” there to finish oof I’m thinking….

    • 平凡人

      With the one child policy, these questions have been embedded into girls by their parents to make sure that the ROI reaches a respectable level. I feel sorry for those parents with boys out there.

      • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

        Don’t be. Think of all the girl fetuses that weren’t good enough.

  • dim mak

    Socially stunted betas need mommy’s help to write a resume so they can finally meet someone. Prove me wrong.

    • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

      This is one CV in which “cunning linguist” isn’t a coveted feature.

  • FREDDY ENG

    Most women from China are just so, so unattractive…… : p

  • Patrick

    That first quote is actually so priceless:

    “Wow, a bunch of frogs and dinosaurs having a date, with Ultraman hosting.”

    I’d love to buy him a drink then go bar hopping for girls with him, he’s got to be fun.

  • Irvin

    At this day and age and we still need matchmaking…….Whoever can’t find a girl or guy by themselves probably should stay single and never EVER breed.

  • Gay Azn Boi

    Not to sound sexist or anything, but it would be mostly women who care about “How much money do you have” or “What car do you drive”, not men. Young urban Chinese women are becoming increasingly devoid of values and morals, not to mention their materialistic lifestyles and insatiable appetite for money. This kinda reminds me of that “BMW lady” (马诺) from the popular Chinese dating show 非诚勿扰 who famously said “I’d rather cry in a BMW than smile on the backseat of your bike” when a male contestant offered to take her for a ride on his bike.

    And speaking of 非诚勿扰, it kinda sucks that all matchmaking fairs/shows in China are for heterosexuals. Statistically speaking, with a population of around 1.4 billion, there must be at least 100 million gay people in China (assuming 10% of the population is gay). Do they not deserve the same opportunity to find a partner?

    I believe this is a glorious time to be gay in China, especially when good, decent women are a rarity nowadays, and when men are expected to outnumber women in the tens of millions in the coming decades. Not to mention all the money you’d save by not having a wife and/or kids. Homosexuals of the world, unite!

    • dim mak

      They just cancelled/limited broadcast time on hetero dating shows because it was ‘damaging morals’, fat chance of there ever being a gay dating show

      And there’s a “Don’t endorse, Don’t condemn” policy up there
      Which is basically just “never talk about homosexuality”

      Sad, hope it’ll change in the future

      • Gay Azn Boi

        Sort of like “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” in the States.

        • G$

          The “Don’t ask, Don’t tell” act has actually already been repealed in the US. Also, it didn’t even last 20 years.

          • me

            sont wear a johnyy. do get aids

    • jiayi

      Women will become whores if men treat them like whores.
      Chinese women have been treated this way for generations, and now finally they are wising up. Even the leader of the nation, most honorable Mao had quite an impressive little harem to boot. Think about it. If the man that you married is inevitably going to go to a ‘KTV party’ with his workmates (read:blow his load over some massage parlor ladies) whether you like it or not, don’t you think you should at least find a rich brother with a fat wallet that can offer a little compensation? It’s so commonplace for Chinese women to deprive their husbands of sex, and for the husbands to go out and get some someplace else, that it;s just become accepted. The amount of leaked sextapes starring various officials doggystyling a bunch of tiny tipsy teenage KTV girls, mouths wide open and hungry for validation, Louis Vuitton, and cold hard cash, is pretty staggering. You can blame women all you want but at the end of the day, it comes down to the 2 most evil things – the dick and the dollar.

      Note: abortion is not a form of protected sex. I can’t stress this enough – don’t be silly, wrap your motherfucking willy!

      • jeffli

        The Dick is evil now? JiaYi Oh really!
        alot of Gay men would argue the point! ;-)
        Honey bunney with out dick you would not be born!

        Dollarskiis? well thats a completely different kettle of fish isn’t it, I mean after all, monkeys and dogs don’t willingly prostitute themselves …or do they?

        Flash some colourful pieces of plastic trash and the lady bower bird will come and inspect your wares. LEDS are great for that!

      • lonetrey

        so your logic is… in order to fight the evil, become the evil?

        … I was preparing a scathing remark, but then I realized how much your viewpoint makes sense. Kind of mutually assured destruction. If the average behavior of men make women suffer, the average behavior of women will change to make them suffer as well.

        This way, everyone suffers until they both realize how miserable they are making each other and wise up on how to treat people.

        That, or the collapse of China’s society.

        Either way, other countries will only laugh and point at you. (note, I was in a computer lab doing electrical engineering homework, and I was surprised to hear my labmates gossip about China’s embarassments. Course, I think it was bought up by a Cantonese-American student, so…..)

        Cannot wait to see how the Mutually Assured Destruction social patterns turn out in China. Do they collapse upon themselves making each other suffer or do they find the grace to pick themselves up as a whole?

        Interesting case…. where the condescending and judgmental nature of some (note: not all. I am not generalizing.) Chinese voice may end up infecting the masses with the wrong ideas.

    • typingfromwork

      Hey man, not to rain on your gay parade (at least it’s not on your wedding day), but most dating shows in other countries cater for heteros as well. I guess for prime time TV there’s just more of an audience in heteros- and the religious right would go apeshit for a homo version of Take Me Out or the god awful Temptation Island.

      Don’t know about matchmaking fairs, I thought most of you guys just use Gaydar. Though one of my friends used it before and he thought it was rubbish.

    • jeffli

      Go to a gay bar and do the YMCA, you might even find a nice rich old Panda or Bear!

  • Will i am

    Excuse me miss, where is the line for laowai? We get to go first, correct?

    • FYIADragoon

      It starts outside the bar of your choosing.

    • Gay Azn Boi

      Asian bitches will go crazy for you.

  • roger dodger

    well… one is secretly gay, another is probably a peadophile, another is gonna turn out to be a wife beater…one is actually a con artist….another has hepatitis b. I have nothing against what them but I sure don’t them. Very little choices

    • Rick in China

      350million people in China have Hep B, I’d wager the pedo, wife beater, and con artist have it too :D

  • markx

    Wow, the Chinese comments are great! – really outdoing the westerners for humour on THIS round!

    • http://wtchina.freeforums.org Elijah

      You think that’s funny. You should hear what they say about Vladimir Putin….

      Actually, I wonder if Putin or the chinese commenters even know about it yet.

      http://wtchina.freeforums.org/confucius-says-t50.html

      Freaking Comedy GOLDMINE!!!! Hahahahaha

      • Tengu

        Vlad has a nice old Alfa Romeo so we need to cut him some slack, any guy who like Pininfarina design can’t be all bad…who cares if he is!

  • Ethan JRT

    Shanghai holds smaller versions of this every weekend. A lot more parents at those, though, based on what I can tell from the photos here.

    • http://candosino.wordpress.com terroir

      You can see them in People’s Square, desparately trying to fulfil their duties as parental custodians to provide a sex partner for their son/daughter before they they die.

      • GodsHammer

        It’s all just the mark of a very confused and pathetically awkward upbringing in a confused and confusing society. Confucted yet?

  • Cleo

    It’s not really Chinese manners to speak disparagingly about strangers based on their age or marital status. In my father’s circle of friends, it was unheard of to inquire about a person’s age or marital status – MIND your own business was the rule especially never assume or make any remarks about a male female pair because they might not be married or even in a relationship. This careful calibration seemed to be naturally Chinese to me. Are WE imitating the Japanese and their vulgar Christmas Cake culture that demeans women just as they are reaching maturity and competitiveness with men?

  • Cleo

    The girl in the blue cardigan reminds me of Candace Accola who plays Caroline on The Vampire Diaries. Everyone looks so cute.

    • hooots

      So every Chinese girl ever watches Vampire Diaries. Why?

      • Tengu

        Hoooty we should go to the next one…think of the tail we can get, we just need to show up!

  • Appalled@everything

    Good luck to them all. Hope some of these people have met a partner this way and can fulfill a basic desire to love and be loved by another. Wish them all the best.

  • MadeInChina

    i think they could have gotten more people if they had said orgy making fair instead..maybe next year guys

  • eattot

    funny!
    every time i go to people park have a walk and rest on weekends, several guys come to chat to me.
    once a guy was terrible, he followed me all the time even when i went to toilet he wait for me outside, at last i told him to leave or i call police….
    haha!

    • http://wtchina.freeforums.org Elijah

      He was probably just making sure that you didn’t kill any homeless people or steal anyone’s soul.

      Good citizen for being so watchful.

      feelsgoodman.jpg

    • Jason

      You must be too sexy

  • MrT

    It would be interesting to see the same type event with Chinese ladies and foreign men only attending.

    • dim mak

      YOU STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM OUR WOMEN

      • Fu ZhiGao

        Really?

        I can’t tell if that was meant to be taken seriously, as self-mockery, or if that was a trolling comment.

        Are you afraid that Farmer Wang might leave the stables unguarded and a few roaming hungry foreign wolves might snatch the flock away?

        I really don’t want to see this topic debated again on this forum…

      • MrT

        To late.
        I’m a hoodlum dog on the loose.

      • hotyakfat

        Too late – 1988 was when we got married – me laowei, she chinese (albeit from Singapore). Must have been partly due to my massive member….

  • Gary

    Why are there more females than males? I thought the gender imbalance would make the males more desperate and likely to show up at something like this.

  • staylost

    Girl with the newspaper blinders is a cutie!!

    • http://www.bestvpninchina.com Rod

      She looks like a typical retard to me

  • time

    unsure if it is the same event but Apple Daily had a clip on such an event.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0J_JNLeNnE

    (in cantonese)

  • Eva

    @Pic #2

    What the hell is up with my fellow Chinese females and that annoying thin-lipped face?

    • http://www.ethansenglishcafe.com Ethan

      It’s the Chinese version of hte Duck Face. Yeah I know lots of Chinese girls do the Duck Face too but that was brought here from the West, the thin lipped “I’m a cute widdle girl!” face is home grown. Both are stupid and make you look like you have mental problems.

      Girls, stop doing it.

      • Eva

        “Both are stupid and make you look like you have mental problems.”

        THIS.

  • http://www.bestvpninchina.com Rod

    I wanted to see more pics of what kind of people went.

    Rich? Poor? Good looking? Ugly?

  • Tehx

    ‘These Shanghai women were all dumped by black men who no longer wanted them.”

    Huh? Lol

  • manusan

    maybe 100 or 200 RMB the ticket. 9000 people

    good day for organisators.

  • harry

    More than happy to correspond with any Chinese lady on my email address

  • Su_Zhou Se_Lang

    What they forgot to mention is that only 2,000 of them were women.

  • Derek Xu

    Some look like turtles.

  • http://hotmail.com VICTOR L. HARRIS

    I AM SINGLE AND GAY I AM BLACK I AM VERY GOOD LOOKING I LOVE ASIAN GAY SINGLE MEN AND I WOULD MAKE LOVE TO HIM ALL NIGHT LONG I AM IN SEATTLE MY AGE IS 43 THIS YEAR I WILL BE 44 I AM A VIRGO ALL U GAY SINGLE ASIAN MEN OUT THERE I WANT U TO WALK U TO ME AND ASK ME ONE AT A TIME JUST SAY TO ME PLEASE BE MY BF I WANT A ASIAN MAN IN LIFE NOW

  • kenny

    .Chinese woman already woke up and now choosing foreigners.Why chinese girl choose foreigners because of , love , romantic , respect, well educated, handsome, care body (good smell body and theets) , well sexual activity(size), socıal effects(know how to eat, drink and speak), if maryy can birth more than one babies and babies can speak 2 language is mother language, can go another country live to another culture and lifestyle, less stress from parents, freedom, not need to spend life for empty things(buy home or car by credits)…well many of reasons for these things.Hope chinese woman decide for future is real prince.

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