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Valentine's Day
Double Seventh Festival
The similarities and differences ofValentine's Day and Double Seventh Festival
• The origin of the Double Seventh Festival is a classic fairy tale tells a love story of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl.
• 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
Customs of celebrating the Double Seventh Festival
• 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.
Ingenuity test by floating
The differences of Valentine's Day and Double Seventh Festival
Customs of celebrating the Double Seventh Festival
Pleading for Skills by Threading a Needle
• 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 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 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”
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
• 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
• 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
• 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.
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 similarities of Valentine's Day and Double Seventh Festival
• In nowadays,the young people are glad • to share the sweet days with theirs lovers.
• The two festivals are the same to praise • the eternal and beauty of love.