Beijing .- The education authorities in Beijing are preparing a course to teach at universities in China's capital will include lessons on how to love and maintain romantic relationships, a fact that has caused astonishment among the students, local media reported Wednesday. According to the South China Morning Post, the Municipal Education Committee of Beijing has produced a text on "mental health" for Chinese university, which includes a chapter relationships.
The chapter, entitled "Happiness begins with learning how to deal with romantic relationships," seeks to teach students to "understand the meaning of love (...) and learn to express, accept, reject, hold or let go of" the romances. The text, which is still in draft form, also include references to homosexuality, a taboo subject for decades and will probably come first Chinese university classes.
However, the issue of "kinds of love" that has generated more comments on internet forums of young Chinese, where one of the prevailing ideas is that teachers are not the best advice for these issues, but the friends and classmates. "If the subject is just giving formally in class, feel like you are imposing a certain conventional views on love to the students.
There are no successes or mistakes in love, "he said about Lingyu Kong, a student at Tsinghua University in Beijing," South China Morning Post. "Among some teachers mentioned by the same newspaper, however, defended the unprecedented Classes and according to them "harbor good intentions, such as to fight for the love suicides occur many years in famous campus in the capital." It may help students find positive visions of love and learn how to handle failures in relations, so that extreme behaviors do not occur, "said Xia Xueluan, a professor at Peking University. 
The chapter, entitled "Happiness begins with learning how to deal with romantic relationships," seeks to teach students to "understand the meaning of love (...) and learn to express, accept, reject, hold or let go of" the romances. The text, which is still in draft form, also include references to homosexuality, a taboo subject for decades and will probably come first Chinese university classes.
However, the issue of "kinds of love" that has generated more comments on internet forums of young Chinese, where one of the prevailing ideas is that teachers are not the best advice for these issues, but the friends and classmates. "If the subject is just giving formally in class, feel like you are imposing a certain conventional views on love to the students.
There are no successes or mistakes in love, "he said about Lingyu Kong, a student at Tsinghua University in Beijing," South China Morning Post. "Among some teachers mentioned by the same newspaper, however, defended the unprecedented Classes and according to them "harbor good intentions, such as to fight for the love suicides occur many years in famous campus in the capital." It may help students find positive visions of love and learn how to handle failures in relations, so that extreme behaviors do not occur, "said Xia Xueluan, a professor at Peking University.
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