Compare with the 18th & 19th centuries, marriage is more typical for everyone. Every teenager will be asked when will have a marriage while reunited with family during Chinese New Year. Why it becomes lesser and not so popular in the 21st centurry?
If a man wants to establish a successful and happier marriage, his salary must be higher than average and he must have a house and a car before giving new birth. Starting from 20 centuries, everyone must at least have a master's degree to have a better job which could earn more salaries than the average family. A person who graduated with a master's degree, the average ages of them normally are 24 years old. Given better salaries, the average age of the man should be over 30 years old. The older the parents' age, the harder it is to bring up a kid for the physical limitations over 30 years old. Therefore so many people choose to give up having a marriage or bring up a child for their marriage.
Thanks to the pandemic COVID-19, people keep the social distance and less to travel. The marriage issue is not too essential for everyone in this society. Besides pandemics, the global warming issue has influenced many people to lose their families by floods, wire flames, draughts and etc as well. We hope that we can take over over living situation easily, instead of suffering any losses in family members.
In my opinion, I can live better without marriage. I need to have more freedom to choose what can I do every morning instead of worrying about other family member's needs in the first place.