Buy a wife and make yourself a family: In a short story describing how an old soldier in the early days took a wife, the writer Ku Ling described the tragedy of the weakly competitive old mainlander soldiers in the marriage market.
買個老婆好成家作家苦苓在一篇描寫早期軍中老士官長娶妻的短篇小說裡，道出了在婚姻市場上，競爭力薄弱的外省老兵的悲哀。