Ted,
Normally you'll find in the bigger parks and open areas of the city and normally of a weekend. There is not just one place, there all over the different areas of a city. Some of these parents even travel to another city, if they haven't had any luck in there own one....
Just look for gatherings in parks, and then look for parents carrying/showing blown-up photo's of the child they want married off. It can get real interesting at times, as sometimes negotiations can get, ...let's say, quite heated ..haha!!!!
Your probably right, in fact you said the same thing Lucy said about the 50,000. Her words who can pay this amount of money?? Then said, even RMB, this is still big money for majority of Chinese families....
David.....