Roses Are Redder…

• 作者: RICHARD MULLINS
• 来源期刊: 今日中国：英文版
• 学科: 历史
• 关键词: 情人节 中国 七夕 节日 玫瑰
• 年，卷（期）: 2007,（2）
• 页码范围: 48-49
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: K892

摘要

<正>The originally Western day for lovers is catching on among enamoured white collars in China. THEY sit there staring into the depths of one another's souls. Pulses quicken as the waiter slips the meticulously prepared Valentine's special onto the candle-lit table. Fingers interlock, and the rapt lovers are unable to tell whether the dizziness is caused by the romance, or the revolving restaurant in which they're dining. Their gaze breaks for a peek outside the window, down upon the shimmering city lights. Only the perpetual pollution kissing the outside of the windowpane betrays that they sit in west Beijing's CCTV tower, and not in Paris... Now that might read like something out of a Mills and Boon novel (or their Chinese counterpart, Chiung Yao), but scenes like that are everywhere in China's wealthier cities on February 14. Along with Christmas and Halloween, Valentine's Day is jostling to become the country's most celebrated Western festival. It's having some success, too.