Valentine’s Day is a popular festival for lovers in western
countries. On this day, sweethearts buy cards, candy, flowers and
romantic dinners to prove their devotion to the one they adore.
People fallen in love always dream each day to be Valentine’s Day.
While it has been August now, for those sweethearts who are living and
working in western countries, the next Valentine’s Day will be about
six months later. What a pity!
It is a luck that the Chinese Valentine’s Day has come. It falls on
the 7th of August this year. In Chinese lunar calendar, it is on July
7, thus it has another name—Seventh Eve. Have you planned to spend a
Valentine’s Day in China with your sweetheart in these days? It must
be a quite different one because there are totally different customs
and traditions for this day. The first one is that on Seventh Eve
people always release lotus lanterns on water. As darkness falls,
surfaces of rivers, lakes, and ponds are dotted with the lanterns that
young men and women have released. The lanterns move slowly on the
water, carrying with them the longings of young men and women for a
perfect marriage. Under these circumstances, the sparkling stars in
the sky, the lotus lanterns in the water, and the lovers in the
moonlight or in the light of the lanterns together form the most ...