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Q: What's the difference between Western Valentine and Chinese Valentine?
Is it the same thing? Do they buy similar gifts? Is it usually up to the boy to do so?
12 years 10 weeks ago in Relationships - China
One is in mid February, and the other one is in August. And one is called Valentine's Day, and the other is Double Seven (7 day of 7 Lunar month). I guess merchants here see it as a double opportunity to sell flowers and chocolates among other things
There is a story to the Chinese valentine's day.
I don't know the story for the western one (but i'm sure there is one, with St Valentine and all that) but now it is just commercialised to bits.
The main point i'm trying to make is that there are two different stories, on two different dates, with the same theme.
just story is different,other is same,u can buy what u want to buy(gift),this year，chinese Valentine's Day is 23 August(Lunar is 7yue chu 7),i am chinese
O(∩_∩)O~，Girls can also prepare the gifts for BF, not just up to boy
In China, it is called the lover's festival, or the Seventh Evening of the Seventh Moon, or the Double Seven, which is derived from the story about the cowherd and the weaving maid. The loving couple was forced to be separated because they offended the rule that a fairy lady couldn’t get married to a mortal being. They were authorized to meet only once a year on the bridge of magpies.
And in the western world the Valentine’s Day originates in the story of Friar Valentine who helped the couples to become husband and wife. However, this action violated the rules of tyrant Claudius. Considering that single men made better soldiers than those with wives, he banned the marriage.
Essentially, it is not hard to discover that Chinese love culture is distinct from the western’s from the two stories. In China, the broadly identified value of love is undying waiting and devotion, which can be described as implicit, deep and tolerant. In contrast, the love view in the Western culture is the bravery to express and pursue love, which can be regarded as romantic, bold and unrestrained.
NOTE : The above statement was copied from the Internet years back, and saved on my hard disc. Unfortunately, I do not have the address from which it was copied to give proper credit. My apologies to the original author.
