Ex-marital affairs is the number one cause of divorces in China, according to a report
In ancient China, it was common for a man to keep more than one wife because it was a sign of a prosperous big family.
In 1949 when the Communist Party took over the country, such traditional could still be observed in some families of China.
During the hard-core Communist ruling in the following 40 years or so, polygamy was strictly forbidden by law.
However as the society got wealthier and more open-minded in recently years, ex-marital affairs have emerged as a societal issue.
In fact, mistresses, also known as 'the little third' or 'the second housewife', have become an unavoidable topic in today's Chinese society.
According to a report released by All-China Women's Federation in 2014, ex-marital affairs is the number one cause of divorces in China.
Nearly 75 per cent of couples ended their marriage because of unfaithful partners.
The same report also highlighted that only 30 per cent of the affair victims went through a divorce - the rest 70 per cent chose to put up with the situation. \\
Nowadays, the country even has professional 'mistress hunters' who help thousands of wives catch 'shameless home wreckers'.
One of them, Zhang Yufen from Xi'an, helps her clients collect evidence of their husbands' suspected adultery and - in some extreme cases - leads her colleagues to punish the mistresses.
'A mistress deserves to be beaten,' Zhang said in a previous interview with MailOnline. 'You have to strip off her pants first so that she couldn't run away.'
In the past two decades, Ms Zhang, a divorcee in her 50s, has helped more than 200,000 Chinese women deal with their marriage crises.
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