Chinese university professor’s love advice videos telling young people to hold out for true love a social media hit

The professor’s most popular advice video deals with pushy parents pressuring children to marry quickly

He says a high proportion of single people in society is a sign of success and prosperity

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‘Our biggest problem is that we think too much and check too much,’ says a university professor in a hit series of love advice videos. Photo: qq.com

Published: 9:00am, 8 Sep 2021Updated: 9:13am, 8 Sep 2021

A university professor’s series of videos about love, in which he urges young people to insist on finding love rather than yielding to social pressure to rush into marriage, has taken Chinese social media by storm.

Liang Yongan, a 67-year-old Chinese literature academic at Fudan University, has 470,000 followers on social media platform Bilibili. Most of his 65 videos offer straightforward, down-to-earth love and relationship advice to young people.

One of his most popular videos from February addressed single people’s stress and anxiety about being pushed by their parents and relatives to date or to marry.

“Parents may appear to help you find happiness, but they are actually digging pits for you to jump into. See what a high divorce rate we have now,” Liang said in the video that has been viewed 4.3 million times and received 210,000 likes.

‘Love is the only thing in history that will not occur through pushing,’ says Liang. Photo: qq.com

He said finding true love was more important than marrying someone for the sake of pleasing others.

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