文档介绍：CHOOSING A SPOUSE If you are young and unmarried, you must have in your mind the image of an ideal husband or wife. Most young people like to indulge in fantasies, and your image may take the form ofa certain famous film star or pop singer. But if you are ofa practical turn of mind, your “ ideal ” would be more down to earth, and your “ image ” would be modeled after what you see around you. though images do not always coincide with realities (for after all, an ideal is an ideal), it is nevertheless an interesting subject for study, for it tells us what the young people expect from the present society. Dr. Li Yinhe of the Sociological institute of Beijing University has made a study ofa certain amount of matrimonial advertisements, and she found that the present generation of China put great emphasis on, in order of importance, 1) age, 2) height, 3) education as the three most important standards in choosing a spouse. es 4) character and temperament, 5) profession, 6) marital status and personal history, 7) appearance and 8) health. Such order of emphasis is peculiarly Chinese. Other conditions such as religion, race and love, so important to people of other nations pletely missing in Dr. Li’s list. Many foreign scholars are also interested in the Chinese idea of an ideal spouse and they just can ’t understand why the Chinese men especially set so much store by “ age ” when the