The Chinese not only speak of fate in the bonds between husband and wife or parents and children, in making friends or seeing employment; even those areas of life requiring rational consideration such as buying a house, investing in stocks and shares or purchasing furniture and household appliances may involve some element of "fate."
中國人不只對夫妻間講「緣」、父母間講「緣」、交朋友講「緣」、找工作講「緣」，就連買房子、投資股票、購置傢具器物等需要理性思考的事情，到頭來，都可和「緣」有著幾分牽連。