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Xu Jiajie has gone on countless blind dates and to numerous match-making events over the past five years in search of a husband. 在过去5年中，许佳洁（音译）为找到好一位丈夫参加了无数次相亲和婚恋活动。 At 31, the baby-faced office worker from Shanghai is under enormous pressure from family and friends to get married. But the right man is hard to find, she says, a big issue for urban, educated and well-paid Chinese women in a society where the husband's social status is traditionally above the wife's. 这位来自上海的上班族虽然已经31岁，却还是一张娃娃脸。谈到结婚问题，她表示正处于亲友的巨大压力之下。但许小姐说，传统的中国家庭中，丈夫的社会地位要高于妻子。对于高教育程度、高收入的城市女性来说，找到合适的男人实在太难了。 "My parents have introduced every bachelor they know," said Xu, who earns double the average wage in Shanghai. "Half of the bachelors I met are quiet and never go out. Outgoing men don't need blind dates." 许小姐的工资是上海市民平均收入的两倍，她说：“我的父母把他们认识的单身男子全都介绍给我，但在我见过面的单身汉中，有一半人十分内向，很少出门。常出门聚会的人不需要相亲。” As couples celebrate the "Qixi" festival on Tuesday, the Chinese equivalent of Valentine's Day, Xu and millions of women like her face stark choices as long-held ideas about matrimonial hierarchy run up against economic and social changes sweeping the world's most populous country. | 
