The Comparison between Chinese Lover’s Day and St Valentine’s Day.doc

中国七夕节与西方情人节的对比The Comparison between Chinese Lovers Day and St Valentines DayAbstract: As China development, more and more festivals from western countries became famous. Valentines Day is one of the most important festivals for people. During this day, every hotels, supermarkets, parks, restaurants were prefer many things to lovers. Young people looked this day as the most romantic day in the year. But, the other festival, Chinese Lovers Day, became more cheerless. We dont know the culture of it; we even dont know to celebrate it. For many people, Valentines Day is the only festival to say love and happiness. But if we discuss and find it out carefully, we may know Chinese Lovers Day is more romantic. And it is felt for us to say love to the man who we love. It can useful for business.Key words: emotion；emotional attitude；effective factor；motivation；interest摘要：在中国的发展过程中，越来越多的西方节日变得流行。对于人们来说情人节是这些重要节日之一。在情人节期间，各个酒店、超市、公园以及饭店都会为情人们做好准备。年轻人更是把这一天看作是一年中最浪漫的一天。但是，另一个节日，七夕节，却很少有人庆祝。我们不了解它的文化，我们也不知道该怎样庆祝它。对于很多人来说，西方的情人节是唯一可以诉说爱情和幸福的节日。但是如果我们仔细的研究它，我们就会知道七夕节会更加浪漫，他更适合我们对所爱的人表达爱意。它也能够促进商业。关键词：情感；情感态度；情感因素；动机；兴趣ContentsI. Introduction of St.Valentines Day and Chinese Lovers Day1 A. Introduction of Valentines Day. 11. The origins of Valentines Day.12. The customs of Valentines Day.1B. Introduction of Chinese Lovers Day.21. The origins of Chinese Lovers Day.22. The customs of Chinese Lovers Day.3II. The relation between Chinese Lovers Day and St. Valentines Day.4A. The Differences between Chinese Lovers Day and St. Valentines Day .4B. The Similar between Chinese Lovers Day and St. Valentines Day.4III. The importance of Chinese Lovers Day. .4A. Chinese Lovers Day is importance for building national spirit.5B. Chinese Lovers Day is importance for business development .6. Conclusion.6Works Cited6I. Introduction of St. Valentines Day and Chinese Lovers day As we know, most countries have Lovers Day. Every country has its own history and culture. But there are so many relations between Chinese Lovers Day and Valentines Day. Festivals are one important part of history and culture. A. Introduction of St. Valentines DayAs we know, February is a romantic month; the history of St. Valentines Day remains a beautiful mystery. 1. The origins of St. Valentines DayOne legend said that St.Valentine was served in Rome during the third century. At that time, the Roman emperor Claudius II decided that single man made better than those with wives and families. So he outlawed young man, his potential soldier who was married. Valentine, the kind-hearted priest, realized the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. Meanwhile, he practiced medicine and helped to relieve the pain of the sick. One day a girl, a jailors daughter, came to him for help. She became blind because of a strange disease. The priest had sympathy for the pitiful young girl and decided to help her. He dropped a kind of liquid medicine into the girls eyes, and told her to come for treatment every day for a month. A month later, with his careful treatment, a miracle happened. The girl regained her sight! And the girl and her father were so grateful to the priest. Later, Valentines actions of helping marriage secretly for young lovers were discovered. He was captured and sent to prison. Claudius ordered to put him to death. When he was in jail, the grateful jailors daughter often came to see him, and then they fell in love with each other. Before the priest was executed, he wrote a letter to his beloved girl. On the envelope he signed “from your Valentine”. This is the expression which is often used today. When roses and chocolate are presented to the valentines, sometimes the expression would be “To My Valentine”.2. The customs of St. Valentines DayIn different countries, they always have different customs for Valentines Day. In France: Basically the custom of Valentines Day is the man to do some romantic actions for his lady, while women do not have to worry too much.In Britain: In most occasions the customs of Valentines Day is the men to present gifts to women. In the United Kingdom, there are respondents who indicated that they had sent mangos, handcuffs and sweet donuts to their secret admirers.In South Korea: Women will give chocolates to men, and more chocolates the man received that indicate the man owned more popularity.In Japan: The special way to celebrate Valentines Day in Japan is that women give gifts to all their friends.In Italy: The Valentines Day for Italians is not bound means a gift-giving day but a love confession day. The most special custom in Italy is against unmarried women, who will get up early on Valentines Day and stand on the window in silence, look forward to see the man first appeared in front her, in their belief the man first past through the window is just her prospective husband and he will marry her in one year.B. Introduction of Chinese Lovers DayLunar July 7 is commonly known as Chinese Lovers Day. It was one of Chinas largest festivals. But now it is withering away gradually. While Western Valentines Day became popular in China, some people who is in the protection of traditional cultures think of Chinese Lovers Day. 1. The origins of Chinese Lovers Day On Chinese Lovers Day, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, raising your head and gazing at the stars, you will find something romantic going on in the sky. Niu Lang and Zhi Nü will meet on a bridge of magpies across the Milky Way. Grannies will remind children that they would not be able to see any magpies on that evening because all the magpies have left to form a bridge in the heaven. The legend has been handed down for nearly 2,000 years. Poets wrote hundreds of verses on the love story and many types of Chinese opera tell the story. The Chinese people believe that the star Vega in the east of the Milky Way is Zhi Nü and at the constellation of the western side of the Milky Way, Niu Lang waits for his wife Zhi Nü. Zhi Nü was the youngest daughter of the Queen of Heaven. With her sisters, she worked hard to weave beautiful clouds in the sky. While Niu Lang was a poor orphan. He had been driven out of his home by his elder brother and his cruel wife. Niu Lang lived with an old cow in penury. The old cow was his only friend and companion. The magical cow kindly told him of a way to find a beautiful and nice woman as his life companion. Under the direction of the cow, Niu Lang went to the riverside on an evening, where the seven fairies slipped out of their heavenly palace to bathe. He took one of the beautiful silk dresses left on the bank. When the girls left the water, the youngest couldnt find her clothes and had to see her sisters back to heaven without her. Then Niu Lang came out with the dress and asked the youngest girl to stay with him several years passed on Earth, which were only a few days in heaven. Niu Lang and Zhi Nü lived happily together and had two children before the Queen of Heaven discovered Zhi Nüs absence. She was so angry, later she had asked Zhi Nü to go to the heaven. Seeing his beloved wife flying in the sky, Niu Lang was terrified. He caught fight of the cowhide hanging on a wall. The magical cow had told him before dying of old age: “Keep the cowhide for emergency use”. Putting the cowhide on, he went after his wife with their two children. With the help of the cowhide, Niu Lang was able to follow Zhi Nü into heaven. He was about to reach his wife when the Queen showed up and pulled off her hairpin to draw a line between the two, the line became the Silver River in heaven. It is the Milky Way. Zhi Nü went back to the heaven, going on weaving the clouds. But she was so sad, and missed her husband across the Silver River so much that the clouds she weaved seemed sad. Finally, the Queen showed a little mercy, allowing the couple to meet once every year on the Silver River. 2. The customs of Chinese Lovers DayThe Chinese Lovers Day in China is just the Chinese trandtional festival, which is a romantic holiday. In traditional feudal society, unmarried young girls are not permitted to go out freely except in holidays. During festival time they are allowed to go out with their companions, so the Lantern Festival produces a great chance of acquaintance for unmarried men and women, they could take advantage of this lantern sightseeing occasion to look out for their partners. And the lantern festival is also a good chance for lovers, which is one of hard-won occasions for them to arrange meetings too. Heres a poem about the story of the Seventh Eve: Clouds float like works of art; Stars shoot with grief at heart.Across the Milky Way the Cowherd meets the Maid.When autumn's Golden Wind embraces Dew of Jade, All the love scenes on earth, however many, fade.Their tend love flows like a stream; this happy date seems but a dream.Can they bear a separate homeward way?If love between both sides can last for aye, why need they stay together night and day?II. The relation between Chinese Lovers Day and St. Valentines DayNo matter in Chinese or in other Western countries. Lovers Day is an important traditional festival. They are having some relation.A. The Differences between Chinese Lovers Day and St. Valentines Day The first difference between Chinese Lovers Day and Valentines Day is blunt and implied. Valentines Day has its blunt and passionate style: they would tell you” I love you” blunt. In China, people use the implied way to say love. So it cant be understand by young people. They think if I love you I would speak loudly to let others know.The second difference between Chinese Lovers Day and Valentines Day is substance and spiritual. The important word in “Valentines Day” is “Valentine”. Today, valentine means lassie, spouse, even someone they loved. But Chinese Lovers Day is stand for missing. It was belong to spiritual. The third difference between Chinese Lovers Day and Valentines Day is the gift. Giving gifts to others is an important part during Valentines Day. So roses, cakes, chocolates, flowers to become the gifts for lovers. Now the choice was cached by business. Without a doubt, it was good for development of market economy. So we could see so many ads during this day. In China we have gifts, too. But we always made the gifts by ourselves, such as a picture or a hankerchief. B. The Similar between Chinese Lovers Day and St. Valentines DayWhile Western Valentines Day is sweeping China, from some Chinese peoples celebration St.Valentines Day, we can feel the quick step of Chinese-Western culture communication. From this point, we can see that the national tradition holiday multi-colors are gorgeous, the fine reputation world, each holiday behind always has moving heartstrings the story and the glorious profound humanities background, however, the national tradition holiday actually has at present encountered the most peoples indifference, is facing the difficult position .We should guide and roster Chinese festival culture with an active attitude. China and the Western countries have their own traditional Valentines festivals respectively. Though there are distinct differences in their origin and formation, they share something in common. In the era of globalization, due to the development and intensification in economic and cultural exchanges, the people of the two countries accept and adore each others traditional festivals and there is a new tendency of selecting the superior and eliminating the inferior. That is, to absorb the foreign reasonable factors and use it. Nowadays more and more people are talking about culture invasion, cultural imperialism, and some are even worried that China is facing the danger of losing its traditional culture just because some young people show too much enthusiasm for foreign festivals. So we should think about whether culture can be invaded or not, what we should do in the face of “culture invasion” and how to protect, develop and spread our traditional culture. The traditional festival is great cultural heritage for a nation with special significance. It is a civil cultural custom which cycles annually. It is a symbol and a concentrated representation of superior culture and a typical form of national culture with great ceremonies successful convention for the traditional festival will lead to the harmonies between different individuals, between people and the nature.III. The importance of Chinese Lovers DayAs Chinas development, more and more festivals from western countries became famous. Valentines Day is one of the most important festivals for people. During this day, every hotels, supermarkets, parks, restaurants were prefer many things to lovers. Young people looked this day as the most romantic day in the year. But, the other festival, Chinese Lovers Day, became more cheerless. We dont know the culture of it; we even dont know how to celebrate it. For many people, Valentines Day is the only festival to say love and happiness. But if we discuss and find it out carefully, we may know Chinese Lovers Day is more romantic. And it is felt for us to say love to the man who we loved. It can useful for business.A. Chinese Lovers Day is important for building national spiritChinese Lovers Day is full of romantic stories. It could receive easily than Valentines Day by Chinese people. It would inherit by Chinese people. No matter how Valentines Day popular in China, we cant forget Chinese Lovers Day. It has important place in every Chinese peoples heart.B.Chinese Lovers Day is important for business developmentNow, more businessmen are not attaching importance to Chinese lovers day. We could use some ways let them know the important significance of Chinese lovers day for business. Let them make some goods for Chinese lovers day, such as the toys of Niu Lang and Zhi Nü, some sweet food and some traditional handicraft.IV. ConclusionChinese Lovers Day is also a romantic festival now. But some custom activities are disappeared. But everyone knew the story about Niulang and Zhinv. Although Valentines Day is good, Chinese Lover' Day is our own festival, it is also very important. We could learn some things from it. As mentioned above, Festival culture is very profound. The festival customs in dissimilar countries are established by usage, with the own distinct national features and rich presentation forms, but they infiltrate to each other. In the background of soci