Valentine's Day Double Seventh Festival The similarities and differences of Valentine's...

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.