Yue Lao, The Matchmaker, is the Chinese god who unites persons in marriage.

Yue Lao translates as The Old Man in the Moon.

According to Chinese legend Yue Lao, The Matchmaker, holds a book in his hands called “the book of fate”, on which the marriage of all people are recorded. Also in his hands there is a red strand, and once he ties a man and a woman on their feet with the strand, the two will surely become a couple even if they were once irreconcilable enemies or strangers far away from each other.

In China lovers make statues of The Matchmaker and build temples to pray for blessings. There is such a temple by the West Lake of Hangzhou, in which people can burn joss sticks, draw straws and vow to the god for their marriage.

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I am very pleased to announce after many months of hard work the launch of ChinaLoveMatchMakers.net

China Love Matchmakers.net (CLMM) is a Chinese matchmaking service formed in cooperation between ChinaLoveMatch.net, the most trusted International Online Chinese Dating Site and us ChinaLily International Matchmaking Inc.

China Love MatchMakers.net is a professional matchmaker service that combines the best of western executive recruiting with the best of traditional Chinese matchmaker services to find you the very best China woman to be your Chinese wife or western man to be your husband. CLMM will help you find your perfect Western or Chinese life mate, life partner, lover and friend – your perfect Western husband or China wife. Our goal is to find you the ideal International Chinese Match to be the love of your life for the rest of your life.

Rather than trying to rewrite what our partners have written about this new venture in the announce to the members of CLM read it here:

For years we’ve been asked by select members if we’d take over the work for them and find them a great match – cost was not an object. Surprisingly, more often than not this request has come from Chinese ladies who have good financial resources but little time for online dating, or maybe little patience. In any event we’ve partnered with a Professional Canadian Matchmaker Company, ChinaLily International Matchmakers Inc., headed by Richard Ward, and we’ve started a new sister website. Check it out here…

Now, let’s be clear, this is not for everyone. We are talking about a real service in which a professional matchmaker will spend many hours with you getting a clear picture of who you are and what your needs are, and then will spend many more hours with many Chinese women or Western men (depending on who you are), narrowing the search down to the very special ones he or she feels are potentially perfect matches for you. In other words, it is a surefire way to succeed, but it isn’t cheap!

But let’s make another thing equally clear – this is no scamming ripoff like CHNLove or AsianBeauties or their so called partner “Chinese Marriage Agencies”. This is a premier professional matchmaking service designed to find you your perfect match. Everything will be 100% transparent and you’ll have no doubts about whether the service is real and of full value.

I am currently in China, in Beijing and head to Shanghai next week.

I have been meeting and interviewing many wonderful Chinese women who are serious about finding a western husband. These women come from all walks of life including entrepreneurs, doctors, dentists, lawyers, accountants, engineers, professors and nurses from a wide range of ages. You can see them on our website.

And of course if you are a Chinese woman reading this you can find western men on our websites as well. I have been meeting and interviewing guys from Canada, the USA and Australia who are living here in China. These guys are hardworking and prosperous….and they are looking for their perfect lifemate.

If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me.

Yours truly,

Richard Ward
Head Matchmaker
China Love Matchmakers
Tel: 416-481-8282 – rings in China when I am here.
Skype: richard_e_ward

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The Hotel Ibis Binjiang in Hangzhou, China looks good but there have been – for me – a few major issues that make me feel very happy that I am moving to another hotel today.

Hangzhou is a beautiful city, often called the Most Beautiful city in China. Ask most mainland Chinese about Hangzhou and they will tell you how beautiful it is. Marco Polo writes extensively about Hangzhou. The city has been wealthy and prosperous for more than 1,000 years.

I am in Hangzhou visiting my business partners, a Canadian guy and his Chinese wife. Hangzhou is her original hometown but she is now Australian by citizenship. The Hotel Ibis Binjiang is an easy walk to their condo and the price is good. They checked out the hotel for me before booking it on my behalf.

This is not my first trip to China or my first time staying in a hotel in China but it may well be the last time I will stay in a Hotel Ibis.

• air conditioning not consistently cooling the air – Hangzhou is very humid and it is quite warm.
• internet service is cut off at 11:30 PM until 7:00am
• breakfast is missing a few key components – like bowls for your oatmeal

Lack of consistently working air conditioning is important to me in a humid and hot climate. No window can be opened so I can’t even open a window to enjoy the cool evening air.

When I complained to the front desk manager that the air conditioning wasn’t working he patiently explained that it was central air and was working. Notwithstanding the fact that the cleaning staff would helpfully play around with the individual controls in my room and cool, refreshing air would begin to flow. Great staff in the hotel and they are very friendly and helpful even if I struggle to trying to explain myself to them with my 17 words of Chinese.

As for having the internet cut off at 11:30 – WTF. There is a 12 hour difference between here and Toronto and 13 between here and Halifax. Prime talk time with family, friends and clients.

Anyway – bye bye Hotel Ibis Binjiang in Hangzhou.

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The Mid-Autumn Festival (中秋節), also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese people. Dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China’s Shang Dynasty, it was first called Zhongqiu Jie (literally “Mid-Autumn Festival”) in the Zhou Dynasty.[1] In Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival or Mooncake Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest. The traditional food of this festival is the mooncake, of which there are many different varieties. The Chinese festival is very traditional and a great way to celebrate.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the few most important holidays in the Chinese calendar, the others being Spring Festival and Winter Solstice, and is a legal holiday in several countries. Farmers celebrate the end of the fall harvesting season on this date. Traditionally on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomelos under the moon together. Accompanying the celebration, there are additional cultural or regional customs, such as:

• Carrying brightly lit lanterns, lighting lanterns on towers, floating sky lanterns
• Burning incense in reverence to deities including Chang’e Erect the Mid-Autumn Festival.(树中秋，竖中秋，in China,树 and 竖 are homophones）It is not about planting trees but hanging lanterns on the bamboo pole and putting them on a high point, such as roofs, trees, terraces, etc. It is a custom in Guangzhou, Hong Kong, etc.
• Collecting dandelion leaves and distributing them evenly among family members
• Fire Dragon Dances

Shops selling mooncakes before the festival often display pictures of Chang’e floating to the moon.

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Hainan Airlines is a great way to travel in China.

Have you tried calling an airline recently to make a reservation or select seat? How about when you are travelling in a foreign country where the language is Chinese? Well Hainan Airlines make this very easy by offering superb English language telephone support and service.

Offering service in English over the telephone is great but when you check in at the airport and get on the plane and someone is prepared to help easily in English was a pure joy to me as my Chinese is only up to about 17 words at this point in time. hahaha

And on board the aircraft things were very comfortable. Flying with Hainan Airlines reminds of what it was like to fly CP Air and Air Canada a few decades ago before they stopped chopping staffing levels on planes although I have enjoyed my time in the air with Air Canada when travelling to and from China since 2009.

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elong.com Travel is a wonderful company to deal with when travelling to China.

I cannot speak highly enough about the great service that I have received when organizing this trio to China from the people at elong.com.

Travelling to a foreign country where you don’t speak the language can be daunting at times especially when you are trying to book hotel and airline reservations. They offer friendly English speaking support 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

They helped me to easily arrange my travel in China with Hainan Air and various hotels. I am continuing to rely on them as I travel in China.

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Arrived in Hangzhou this afternoon – September 10 – from Beijing. Stayed in Beijing last night after arriving from Toronto on an Air Canada flight that was 4 hours behind schedule. More about Air Canada later.

The Mid Autumn Festival or Moon Festival falls on September 12 this year and in Hangzhou three days later on the Qiantang River the Tidal Bore makes its appearance. It is also known as the Silver Dragon. My business partners apartment overlooks the Qiantang River so I will have a birds-eye view of this event.

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I am leaving for Beijing, China on September 8, 2011 and then going to Hangzhou on the 10th.

I will be in Hangzhou until September 16 when I will go to Urumqi, Xinjiang province for a week or two before travelling to Yantai.

My schedule is quite open at the moment and I will be in China for four months.

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