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1、,Valentines Day,Double Seventh Festival,The similarities and differences of,Valentines 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 Valentines Day is to memory a Rome priest called Valentine w
2、ho Sacrifice for Presided over the wedding for the lovers.,The differences of Valentines 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 op
3、en 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 Valentines Day and Double Seventh Festival,Customs of celebrating the Double Seventh Festival
4、,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 t
5、he Yuan Dynasty.With more holes than ordinary needles,they are rather hard to handle.,The differences of Valentines 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
6、 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 Valentines Day and Double Seventh Festival,Customs of celebrating the Double Sevent
7、h 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 bir
8、ds,or carved with patterns in relief on the melon peel,which are therefore called“carved melons”,The differences of Valentines Day and Double Seventh Festival,Customs of celebrating the Valentines Day,On Valentines Day Lovers send each other Valentines Day cards that tell of their love.,Sometimes th
9、ey also send other gifts too,like flowers,jeweries or candy.,The differences of Valentines Day and Double Seventh Festival,Customs of celebrating the Valentines Day,Some couples preser to traveling or taking some special exercise on the day,The differences of Valentines Day and Double Seventh Festiv
10、al,Customs of celebrating the Valentines Day,Maybe they will just go shoping on Valentines Day,The differences of Valentines Day and Double Seventh Festival,Customs of celebrating the Valentines Day,Do you know the meaning of rose quantities,1 rose:love at first sight,you are the only one.2 roses:Mu
11、tual 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:Youre my treasured one.12 roses:I love you and I am grateful for your presence.13 roses:Forever friends.20 roses:Im sincere towards you.,The differences of
12、Valentines Day and Double Seventh Festival,Customs of celebrating the Valentines Day,21 roses:Im committed to you.24 roses:Youre always on my mind.25 roses:Congratulations.36 roses:Ill remember our romantic moments40 roses:My love is genuine 99 roses:Ill love you till the day I die.100 roses:100%lov
13、e,Im totally devoted to you.101 roses:Best of all,youre 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 Valentines 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.,
