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Yu Jihui: “A Stinking Old Ninth – A Tale of the Coal Capital” (updated on July 2020)

Fourthly I was a Da Guang Gun, or a big

bachelor or a single man. I was about 30 years old.

According to the Chinese tradition, a Da Guang Gun

or a Big Bachelor must be an abandoned man. No

girl was willing to choose a Big Bachelor to marry!

“Why is this man single? What are the reasons?”

people would ask. “If he is a university student, he

should have a university girl as his lover. However,

he does not. Why doesn’t he have a girlfriend?

Maybe he had offended school discipline at

university and was punished seriously; maybe he was

a slow-witted and lazy student and had been at the

bottom in his class; maybe he had some mental

problem that would stir up trouble; maybe he

suffered from some fatal disease and couldn’t live a

long life… Anyway, he is single and abandoned.

This kind of a man is unreliable.” Public opinion

regarded it as a disgraceful thing for a girl to marry a

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