You ready to roses, bought the tickets, reservation of the candlelight dinner? “The Spring Festival holiday, just after work have new girlfriend’s Shanghai white-collar one thrown in ZhaoLi by colleagues several problems” hit dizzy “.jewelry
Previous girlfriend always complain that he’s not romantic, oneself always want to do it, but let his anxiety that each to “section” always can’t figure out what new tricks. More important is, more and more smart business this festival more expensive and clinking, originally not shy of his bag, also worried “valentine’s day” become “lover disaster”.
Valentine’s day or “lover disaster”
Unless you don’t go out, otherwise the valentine’s day, looking at the full avenue hand holds flowers, be permeated with happy smile lovers, can make many single people “envy and jealousy, hate”. Gifts of course is necessary, valentine’s day dinner also cannot little.
According to the Sampling Survey respondents solutions Sampling International ‘s (SSI) global online research group in the United States, the latest research 52 percent of consumers to sweetheart prepared gift, 50% of the person responsible for carrying lover dine out plan. Despite years of evolution and development during the valentine’s day, selection of things constantly, but rose, chocolate, candle power dinner such traditional gifts and program, it is still the world most people’s first choice.Crystal Earrings
In multinational consumer survey of SSI found that 57% said will send a present to lover, interestingly, 67 percent expect to receive gifts. Flowers are the common valentine’s day gifts and traditional first choice and 46 per cent of people are still follow the traditional gift, however, in the United States and Britain, valentine’s day CARDS is more popular, there were respectively 64% and 67 percent of people choose.
Of course, whether in China or abroad, valentine’s day spend buying. Reuters recently reported by the British economic downturn, British men mostly abandoned the traditional and expensive roses and champagne, switch to choose to buy a women’s underwear as valentine’s day gift for loved ones. Reported that British market purchase 12 home runs rose, including freight, takes about 100 pounds ($1061 yuan). Even buy brand underwear need to spend more money, some British people still feel buy an underwear more cost-effective.
While in China, ask a woman in love boy, what is the most expensive in the 21st century? The answer may be valentine’s day. Although the Spring Festival has spent thousands of yuan, but this is ZhaoLi and girl friend together first valentine’s day, and her colleagues the instigation of, he finally to the girl friend bought a platinum necklace, plus day dinner and roses, will spend almost one-third of his salary.
Love is the Chinese valentine’s day?
Due to the merchant’s constantly advocacy and bellows, now more and more Chinese active or passive are involved in the February 14 of this stimulated the “section”. And the young people began to love and money mixed together. And ZhaoLi as many boys from face, with complimentary gift to girls as expensive proof of love, making the valentine’s day as an economic burden.
Recently in the world wide web, a study “you think valentine’s day whether liability” discussion, more than three-quarters Chinese, think valentine’s day is a “sweet burden”. Yet for in the love couples, maybe this is a necessary sweet burden. Based on the above research institutions SSI global online research group’s research, the Chinese is the world’s most like valentine’s day one of the countries, followed by the United States.
SSI research including the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and other countries, found especially in China, a 50% of the people said, may go and half celebrate valentine’s day, this data in the USA is 42%. But instead, 69 percent of Japanese, 71% of australians and 74% of the German people said they would not on this day have special celebration. From China Daily nets micro bo said Russian province even banned lead valentine’s day. Many conservatives of russians thinks, valentine’s day, Halloween western festivals such as teenagers about the mental and moral concept training without profit, all kinds of festival activities are merely let a businessman profit just.
Analyzing Chinese like valentine’s day, the reason of the psychological counsellor YuanYuan tells a reporter, maybe a lot of Chinese even valentine’s day the origin of all don’t know, western valentines day, regarding the Chinese young people, especially lover or ready to love the people, this day have an excuse to seek romantic and love. Sometimes in life there are too much pressure and burden, while with excuses happiness, there is no need to pack serious and not to enjoy.
Who romantic hook
Compared with the lovers, traders more like valentine’s day. In fact, they are also powerful valentine’s economic aid thrust, 2011 valentine’s day, many businesses before during the Lantern Festival in the Spring Festival is not finished, began to render sweet atmosphere.
Shanghai Oriental pearl famous 276 meters revolving restaurant valentine’s day dinner by candlelight price for 298 yuan/person, still giving roses and chocolate, window seat early booking yewrs. In Beijing’s major stores, chocolate and roses, diamond ring these hot gift already in a prominent position. EBay last statistics, iPod Nano, psu on Xbox 360 consoles, diamond ring is American favorite; Chocolate, perfume, heart-shaped hold pillow in Germany’s best selling. In addition, greeting card, plush toys, couples watches, various adorn article also ranked eBay global February 14 top-selling products that list.
With various restaurant, teahouse, cinemas and even hotel suites of big fight romantic warmth CuXiaoPai red-hot valentine’s economy is rather, some people also begins to boycott on valentine’s day. According to media reports last valentine’s day is someone in changsha HuangXingNa road pedestrian street anti-valentine’s day, including one reason is “valentine’s day corrosion youth values, place flavor is very thick”. To this, YuanYuan think, as Canada proverb, “Love is a verb so” means: Love is not Love with substances to performance, shown in every action, each detail.
On the other hand. Chinese, “lover” represents soliciting idea of ambiguity identity, valentine’s day, in the traditional relationship between husband and wife, may have few romantic gimmick, mostly as usual days, but these ground, if one party some symptom, can let a person “fall” ji. Media reports said the eve of valentine’s day marriage investigation detective company also business is hot.
On the eve of valentine’s day, the more netizens online launched “reverse valentine’s day” sports, the people for “go to a cinema to order seat buy light, the lovers are separated from”, “call the hotel big bed room reservation light, and let the lovers in the snow AiDong”, sports ultimate goal is to “break pair is a pair”.
But men culture research writer blue wynne once in the article thinks, need not so for valentine’s day anxiety, “we depress (emotional and sexual desire) spoil the nationality, the most cannot afford a famous suggestive division, so just can have mingming is a warm and pleasant holiday, the ultimate became the social collective anxiety.”