Marital arts experts Xiao Lin, 22, and little sister Yin, 21, are to stage a three day fighting festival in Foushan, south east China, where only the toughest suitors stand a chance of getting through.
First contestants must show off their archery skills, then they must carry a heavy weight over sharpened bamboo spears, and finally they have to defeat one of the sisters in full contact combat.
Only then will contestants earn the right to remove the girls’ masks and propose to them.
'They can chose open hand or any weapon they wish but we won’t be holding back. If they can’t beat us they aren’t worthy," explained Lin.
‘We tried dating agencies but the men we met were all to weak. We could beat them easily,’ said Yin.
‘So we went back to ancient ways called Bi Wu Zhao Qin - which was the way warrior princesses would find their men.’
But so far, only a trickle of brave contestants has come forward.
‘I’m a very good martial artist - but I think I’d want to see them with the masks off before I decided whether I wanted to fight for them,’ said one doubtful suitor.
So in order to get with a girl you need to beat them in a fight? let the rape jokes commence…
good point Sisyphus, but isn’t the imbalance partially related to the geographic dispersion of the workforce? Perhaps they are in an area say without a heavy manufacturing center so the population is more evenly gender balanced or is in fact the opposite of the national trend because all of the young male labor has left looking for work. Speculation. Somebody on this board can answer this question better than I can.
I’d do it just for the story. But only if I get both of them.
“We tried dating agencies but the men we met were all to weak. We could beat them easily,’ said Yin.”
This is the best part of it. How many chinese men have been found beaten to shit in dumpsters around China I wonder. Show up for a first date and suddenly you are in a fight for your life.
Dovetailing into this thread’s subject it is like the similar (but different) words martial and marital, as in you have to prove your martial abilities in order to get to the martials.
Of course any of us who have “blessed” to have lived in a marriage would dispute how “different” those two words really are in reality.
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