u/Yijing1

The ones they sell in Chinese convenience stores all seem to be the same size.

Personally I don't think such a division existed. I think the earliest Daoists were all Dao jiao and Dao jia (philosophical Daoism) arose in the later centuries around the time of Wang Bi to the introduction of Buddhism?

I looked on the meetup app, and the gender ratio of these groups skew heavily male and I haven't seen any women in their 20's/early 30's there, except in some badminton groups that is already 95% male.

I feel that there is no point going to a pub or a bar if you don't look like a male model.

I lived in Chongqing and this never happened. Then I moved to a smaller city in Hunan and every morning it was like this, firecrackers going off for 5 minutes non-stop outside every apartment building. But when I complained to the older chinese neighbours about it, they looked at me as if I was the weird one for complaining, like it was a public service and the most normal thing in the world.

The architecture of the buildings also created an echo, to the extent that it was deafening to me on the 14th floor of the apartment building.

I don't know if it's the specific Mixue branch I went to, but the ice cream I got was always like this. You couldn't tell if they did it this way because the top was always covered, so you think you're getting a full size of ice cream but you're not, and by the time you find out you've been cheated out of half a cup of ice cream, you're already far away from the shop, and even if you did go back to the store to complain, no-one would understand you because your chinese is bad.