{"id":132,"date":"2009-08-27T08:16:09","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T12:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=132"},"modified":"2009-08-27T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T12:16:09","slug":"chinese-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was <strong>\u4e03\u5915\u8282<\/strong> (Chinese Valentine&#8217;s Day).\u00a0 It comes from the story of a mortal cowherd <strong>\u725b\u90ce<\/strong> (lit. cowherd) and <strong>\u7ec7\u5973<\/strong> (lit. fabric woman), a goddess, who met but eventually were torn apart (versions of why vary).\u00a0 Every year on the 7th day of the 7th month on the <strong>\u9634\u5386<\/strong> (lunar calendar), there is a <strong>\u9e4a\u6865<\/strong> (bridge of magpies) that allows the two to meet.\u00a0 I was at a <strong>\u6b4c\u5385<\/strong> (karaoke establishment) yesterday and saw what I presumed were groups of women looking to <strong>\u53d1\u6cc4<\/strong> (vent) about the day or to pass the time until they could meet up with their boyfriends.\u00a0 For dinner, nearly every restaurant I saw was full of people busy with <strong>\u7ea6\u4f1a<\/strong> (dates), and a cab I was going to take was <strong>\u62a2\u8d70<\/strong> (stolen away) by a guy holding flowers.<\/p>\n<p>\u4e03\u5915\u8282 qi1xi1jie2 &#8211; Chinese Valentine&#8217;s Day<br \/>\n\u725b\u90ce niu2lang2 &#8211; cowherd<br \/>\n\u7ec7\u5973 zhi2(3)nv3 &#8211; fabric woman<br \/>\n\u9634\u5386 yin1li4 &#8211; Lunar calendar<br \/>\n\u9e4a\u6865 que4qiao2 &#8211; bridge of magpies<br \/>\n\u6b4c\u5385 ge1ting1 &#8211; lit. song room. Karaoke establishment<br \/>\n\u53d1\u6cc4 fa1xie4- vent<br \/>\n\u7ea6\u4f1a yue1hui4 &#8211; date<br \/>\n\u62a2 qiang2- to steal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was \u4e03\u5915\u8282 (Chinese Valentine&#8217;s Day).\u00a0 It comes from the story of a mortal cowherd \u725b\u90ce (lit. cowherd) and \u7ec7\u5973 (lit. fabric woman), a goddess, who met but eventually were torn apart (versions of why vary).\u00a0 Every year on the 7th day of the 7th month on the \u9634\u5386 (lunar calendar), there is a \u9e4a\u6865&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/chinese-valentines-day\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[2659,378679],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary","tag-chinese-language","tag-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}