Celebrate Chinese Valentines Day This Year on “August 26″

We all know that Valentine day is celebrated on 14th of February. But celebrating Chinese Valentine day is very much different than just merely exchanging gifts among the couples. The Chinese valentine day is celebrated by following the traditional rituals and manners. The Chinese Valentine Day is known as “Qi Qiao Jie” and is celebrated according to the Chinese lunar calender.  As per the calender every year on the seventh eve of seventh month.

Chinese Valentine Day Celebration

Celebrate Chinese valentine day with your sweetheart. Do you want to know how to celebrate this special day? The best way to celebrate Chinese valentine day is in the traditional manner. Thus, include traditional fashion clothes of Chinese to maintain the mood. Young girls display their skill of needlework and make different kinds of creative things like paper flowers, potteries etc. They also burn perfumed incense sticks and offer fruit to night sky. Sometimes people also cook horse beans and share them with their neighbors. This is because there are many people who consider Chinese valentine Day as the holiday of friendship.

If you are wondering why these steps are involved in Chinese Valentine day it is all because of different kinds of folk lore. According to the most popular folk lore the seven beautiful daughters of Heaven  fell in love with cowherd when they were visiting earth during holidays. According to other folk lore Chinese Valentine Day is celebrated when fairy Zinhu meet her lover and magpies come in helping the couple by making a bridge connecting the galaxy and the earth so that they can meet and reunite their souls.

Chinese Valentine Day Gift Idea

Chinese valentine day is celebrated in a different way, thus the gift ideas must carry  a different  way and demands to catch in Chinese way. Some of the innovative Chinese valentine day gift idea are as follows:

• Love gift box: This is one of the most unique Chinese valentine day gift idea. It is an over sized and sterling fortune cookie decorated with red silky rose petals. The box is designed carefully so that it can be easily opened and your sweetheart can open it and your special secret message is revealed written on parchment scroll.
• Personalized Silver Fortune Cookie: We all want our special one to have a good fortune. Thus, gift the most special person of our life with silver fortune cookie. Thus, what are you waiting for? Jot down the fortune of your love and it will be carefully tucked inside.
• Miles Couple Coffee Mug Set: It is said that distant relationship poses lots of problems. But don’t worry with this couples coffee mug set your love will grow stronger and stronger. The mugs will be cherished by both of you. Whenever you will take a look at these mugs you will remind how much you two are madly in love with each other and wait to see in each other’s arm. You can also add a message card to give a personalized card.

Love is the most eternal blissful feeling in one’s life. It should be treasured lifelong with extra care. The expression of love comes in various forms. There are many of them who are unable to express their heartfelt feeling to their beloved with apt words. There are ones who adopt to speaking with the help of either short messages, love letters and emails. To augment the feeling, one can take the help of love icons – the symbols which symbolizes this eternal feeling. The symbols have been in use for ages now and everybody knows the right implications. To use the apt love icon at the right place also enhances the true beauty of the feeling even if you don’t have the courage to say it in words how much you love him/her.

The various love icons which symbolizes love are -

Red heart – This is the one symbol which has been describing love through eternity.

Red lips – This symbolizes the closeness that the beloved might yearn for.

Cute teddy hugging another teddy – This love icon implies that the two love birds want to hold each other in proximity and never let go.

Cupid – the God of love has the ultimate domain to express love

Red heart with an arrow through it -  This one says that the partners have been hurt in love. Being hurt here has a different connotation – it means you have lost your heart to somebody and don’t have a control over it.

Broken pieces of heart-  This one signifies that the duo have fallen apart from each other and have called off the relationship.

Your beloved is always close to your heart.  So, a gift to your beloved should always be touched with the intimate feeling of love, because you are gifting it to someone special in your life. Not necessary that the gift must be expensive. But if its given with a dear thought, no money can surpass the value. Let it be simple and and express your thoughtfulness such that he/she can treasure it life long. You would always want to keep the gift from your beloved lifelong with you.

The most romantic gift which your partner can treasure is a paper flower – the color choice is up to you. Although, red roses are always considered to be the most romantic flowers. Besides red roses you can also try lilies, carnations and orchids – the combination of these flowers would really make it colorful.

You can also try to give a box of beautiful diamond rings. The packaging should be done in a red velvet box. Avoid giving unwrapped gifts. Jewelry is the dearest gift of a women. You can go for jewelry items like -

·    Garnet jewelry
·    Pearls
·    Sapphire
·    Amethyst
·    Blue topaz
·    Citrine jewelry

Give him/her a perfect setting for a date. A date that you both can cherish all life long. Be in the right ambience and create the magic yourselves.

Another option to gift could be to present the all time hit romantic songs in the form of a CD. Romantic novels is another choice if he/she is a book freak.

Barring the above gift items, there are others which can also be a good gift option -

·    Albums
·    Artwork
·    T-shirts, silk shirts
·    Satin sheets
·    Love poetry

Indeed long after the flowers die out and other gifts fade off, a personalized song written by you (best if recorded by you) will be remembered as one of the most romantic gifts ever received.