The matter of being forced married is not Chinese characteristics only. In today’s Japan, older unwed female faces pressure of forced married as well. Before two years, the survey of Japanese media showed, the words that heard of the most annoying when young people come back home are “When are you going to get married?”, next is “Have you gotten marriage partner? “.
By contrast, there are a few nations mightily interfere marriage of children as Chinese people. Such as the spectacle of blind date at Shanghai people’s square is so rare in the world.
In fact, to contrast developed country such as UK, German, France and Japan, marriage rate of Chinese people is still much higher, the older unwed female of 30-40 year-old in China is less than 5%, it is about 20% higher than German, is 30% higher than Japan. To contrast with the developed country, Chinese people that young men of 25-26years old choose to get married early is not really late marriage at all.