Scripts Unit 1 Listening Practice 1

Listening Practice 3

Before Valentine’s Day became popular, people in China, Korea, and Japan already had a traditional day of romance: Double Seventh Day. Double Seventh Day started from a story about two lovers who were separated by the goddess of heaven. However, once a year on July 7^th, the goddess took pity on the separated lovers and let them meet. The celebration of their meeting is called Qi Xi Jie in China, Tanabata in Japan, Chilseok in Korea, or Double Seventh Day for English speakers. It always falls on July 7^th of the lunar calendar, and it is celebrated in different ways around Asia. In China, newly married or single women ask the goddess to make them more beautiful. In Japan, people celebrate by writing wishes on pieces of paper, and in Korea, people eat wheat-flour noodles and grilled wheat cake.