My Eldest Girl Should Get Married is a 2010 Chinese urban comedy/drama television series directed by Sun Hao. It premiered on CCTV-8 on April 3, 2010 and comprises 25 episodes. This urban romantic comedy series with elements of farce stars Song Jia, Yu Xiaowei, Zhang Haotian, Liu Dekai, Guo Tao and Zhou Jie. The phrase dànǚ can refer to unmarried women above a certain age, and hence the title can also be translated as An Aging Woman Should Get Married. The series concerns a working woman in her thirties whose family is frantically searching for a prospective spouse for her. The series portrays the phenomenon of shengnü, which refer to a phenomenon in East Asian societies where urban women are getting married at a much older age, some of whom continue into singlehood throughout their lives.
