In China, we also celebrated Valentine
And yes, you can not escape, the Chinese also celebrate the lovers. The price of the rose and explodes some media give advice to observe closely.
In China, offer boys and girls of roses, chocolates. This is the rule, and it is unavoidable.
Chinese newspapers rengorgent photos of chocolates in all its forms (but heart in boxes) and bouquets of roses of all colors (and not always very natural).
"Our parents did not like it, besides mine do not even know what it is but today we are young, we want to celebrate love and to do so romantic," said a young student 23 years before a foreign pastry Beijing. It has a budget of 300 yuan to fill her lover.
This evening, candlelit dinner and exchange gifts, it's like in any city in the world: Beijing and the rest of China have adapted Valentine's Day to the West. And merchandising that goes with it.
But the Chinese also have their own feast of love: Qi Qi (7.7) that is to say the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. They have the chance to say at least twice a year of sweet words or so to catch up if you forget. Please note, this year the Qi qi falls on August 6!
Escalating prices rose
But the People's Daily is concerned about the price of flowers, which like all happening now, was up some.
"I think I can charge each rose at least 15 yuan today. The best may cost up to 20 yuan coin, or even 25, "said a florist in Beijing.
"It's quite normal to see the roses grow by three to five times for Valentine's Day," said another, which normally provides its roses to 5 RMB room.
All these roses come from Yunnan province where it is a market that specialty.
Dounan The flower market in Kunming, where they get more than 80% of the roses sold in China this season, had to extend its opening hours to cope with demand in recent days.
Compared to the year Last, the average price for a wholesale Dounan pink rose 50%, reaching 1.5 to 2 yuan coin (20 to 30 U.S. cents). "This is the highest price since 2005" says Lu Jiliang, the Yunnan Flower Association.
Although increasing production costs partly contributes to the increase, Mr. Lu said she also comes from the fact that there is a greater demand for flowers in many cities of the second and third terms, as Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou.
This application has significantly exceeded the 8% increase in the volume of flowers produced in Yunnan from 2009 to 2010. "The offer will not follow the demand, "he added.
This should not prevent sighted lover, who had ordered in advance their bouquet to offer these famous flowers in quantity as explained Zhao Zhiman who had requested 22 roses for his sweetheart in Beijing: "Every rose has a meaning, and 22, it means' love is inconceivable that pair,"
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