Single this Spring Festival? The good news is you're not alone

A young couple waits to register their marriage at a civil affairs bureau in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province in May, 2016. [Photo/IC]

In comparison, those from relatively remote and underdeveloped areas, such as Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Guizhou province and Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, are less attractive to the opposite sex.

In traditional Chinese culture, marriage is largely decided by one's parents. Today, the opinions of parents remain important in people's choices of life partners.

According to a survey published by dating website Baihe, 85 percent of single respondents said what they wanted from their spouses matched with their parents' wishes, and nearly one third of respondents said the their relationship had failed due to objections from their parents.

The survey shows that parents' opinions have the largest impact on people from Northeast China, with nearly 40 percent of women from Jilin province and 18 percent of men from Heilongjiang province obeying their parents if there's a clash over marriage issues.

In comparison, young people in Southwest China's Chongqing municipality are the most independent of their parents in choosing marriage partners.

A good relationship is based on mutual respect – that is the common view shared by over 60 percent of couples, according to Dataway.

Meanwhile, 16.7 percent of marriages were deemed to be dominated by the wife, compared to 6.6 percent of partnerships dominated by the husband.

Henan is the only province where more wives than husbands said that they "were scared of their spouses", which in Chinese culture means that they are obedient in the relationship.

Another trait in Chinese marriages is that the relationship between wives and mother-in-laws is difficult to handle. More than 60 percent of women refused to live with their mother-in-laws, according to a survey by Jiayuan.

The survey also shows that while 80 percent of women said they enjoyed the favor of their partner's mother at the beginning of the relationship, only 60 percent said they got along well once married.

On the other hand, males seem to find it a piece of cake to get along with their mother-in-laws, with only 3.7 percent of men admitting that their mother-in-law did not like them.