七夕节与情人节的异同

• Maybe they will just go shoping on Valentine’s Day
The differences of Valentine's Day and Double Seventh Festival
Customs of celebrating the Valentine's Day
The differences of Valentine's Day and Double Seventh Festival
Customs of celebrating the Double Seventh Festival
Pleading for Skills by Threading a Needle
The similarities and differences of
• The origin of the Double Seventh Festival is a classic fairy tale tells a love story of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl.
• Some couples preser to traveling or taking some • special exercise on the day
The differences of Valentine's Day and Double Seventh Festival
Customs of celebrating the Valentine's Day
Customs of celebrating the Double Seventh Festival
Ingenuity test by floating
• Ingenuity test by floating needle is one of the • common customs on the festival. • Put some water in a vessel and leave it in the • open air until it is covered by a film of dust. • Then cast a needle or thin straw on it to see • the pattern of the shadow at thebottom, so • as to test their ingenuity.
• In order to plead for skills, threading a needle • is the most long-standing means. • It tests the speed of threading a needle under • the moon. • It is said that the needles used in the contest • are the seven-hole needle of the Han Dynasty • or the nine-tail needle of the Yuan Dynasty. • With more holes than ordinary needles, they • are rather hard to handle.
The differences of Valentine's Day and Double Seventh Festival
Customs of celebrating the Valentine's Day
• On Valentine's Day Lovers send each other • Valentine's Day cards that tell of their love.
• Sometimes they also send other gifts too, • like flowers ,jeweries or candy.
The differences of Valentine's Day and Double Seventh Festival
Customs of celebrating the Valentine's Day
The differences of Valentine's Day and Double Seventh Festival
Customs of celebrating the Double Seventh Festival
Cobweb as the Determinant
• Pleading for skills with cobweb is another • common custom in the festival, in which • everybody puts a spider into a locket and • waits until the next morning to see if there • is cobweb and if any, how it looks. • The one with a most round cobweb of the • most mesh will be the winner.
The similarities of Valentine's Day and Double Seventh Festival
• The two festivals are the same to praise • the eternal and beauty of love. • In nowadays,the young people are glad • to share the sweet days with theirs lovers.
• The Valentine's Day is to memory a Rome priest called Valentine who Sacrifice for Presided over the wedding for the lovers. .
The differences of Valentine's Day and Double Seventh Festival
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The differences of Valentine's Day and Double Seventh Festival
Customs of celebrating the Valentine's Day
• 21 roses: I'm committed to you. • 24 roses: You're always on my mind. • 25 roses: Congratulations. • 36 roses: I'll remember our romantic moments • 40 roses: My love is genuine • 99 roses: I'll love you till the day I die. • 100 roses:100% love, I'm totally devoted to you. • 101 roses: Best of all, you're my one and only. • 108 roses: Proposal, Will you marry me? • 365 roses: I love you every single day. • 999 roses: My love will last till the end of time.
The differences of Valentine's Day and Double Seventh Festival
Customs of celebrating the Double Seventh Festival
Qiaoguo
• Qiaoguo（Fried Thin Pastes）is in different • shapes with the materials mostly being oil, • flour, sugar and honey. • The deft hands will nip them into all shapes • related to the legend of the Festival. • The melons and fruits used on the day are • usually carved into the shapes of flowers • and birds, or carved with patterns in relief • on the melon peel, which are therefore • called “carved melons”
• Do you know the meaning of rose quantities • 1 rose: love at first sight, you are the only one. • 2 roses: Mutual feelings, a commitment, an • engagement or coming marriage. • 3 roses: I love you. • 9 roses: I will love you forever. • 10 roses: You are pretty. • 11 roses: You're my treasured one. • 12 roses: I love you and I am grateful for your • presence. • 13 roses: Forever friends. • 20 roses: I'm sincere towards you.