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.
• The Valentine's Day is to memory a Rome priest called Valentine who Sacrifice for Presided over the wedding for the lovers.
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The differences of Valentine's Day and Double Seventh 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.
• 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
Customs of celebrating the Double Seventh Festival
Ingenuity test Fra biblioteky floating
• Ingenuity test by floating needle is one of the • common customs on the festival.
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.
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”
• Sometimes they also send other gifts too, • like flowers ,jeweries or candy.
The differences of Valentine's Day and Double Seventh Festival
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.
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.