What is Double 11 in China? Is it a famous festival?
"1" means single, 11th, November is quadruple single!! What a tragedy for those single young men and women!!
In fact, here are millions of young ages feel in trouble with looking for lovers or spouses. And it's called "Single Hazard". They will face the pressure from parents, elder ages of their family and other people. (Yes, if you don't have a valentine or get marry around age 25 - 30, you will receive some weird critics and urge for marriage, especially for women)
At the other hand, the money worship in this generation gives them a mendacious phantom of the marriage live. Every lady wants a gao-fu-shuai (tall-rich-handsome) gentleman as lover and spouse and every man wants a bai-fu-mei (white-rich-beautiful) as well.
You have to heal your broken heart in this tragic day, so GO SHOPPING AT HOME!! NOT GO TO STREET, SEE OTHER COUPLES REMINDING YOUR POOR SINGLE LIFE!!!
The first 11·11 shopping day idea came from Taobao, the C2C trading platform of Alibaba in 2009, in purpose of promoting its brand. Now Taobao is already the largest online trading website in China and Alibaba also listed on NYSE in October,2014. The first 11.11 day turn income is 50m RMB in 2009, then grown to 90b RMB in 2015. (1 RMB = 0.1472 USD) See chart below:
Taobao (including B2C Platform Tmall) Day turn income on “Double 11”
It is not unique, but has its counterpart, November is in the middle time of China's National day Golden Week and Christmas. The season switch drives people purchasing clothes and supplies for winter. It has to say, what a perfect fit to go shopping in Double 11.
作者的感想：一个歪果仁能把中国的“双11”以及中国的单身情况、原因分析得如粗透彻，好像真的无法反驳。现如今我国的男女比例失衡，男人责怪女人“拜金主义”，不应该苛责女人在寻找配偶的时候要求太高。而女性则反过来斥责当年是因为“重男轻女”的思想而导致男女比例失衡，现在“自食恶果”，而且现在少部分女性觉得自己的要求并不过分。随着两性矛盾越来越大，我国近几年的人口也在一定程度上有所下降。现在的情况基本是：不买房，买不起房；不结婚，接不起婚；找对象，找不来对象。上图的曲线上升得越快，越是证明咱们现在的年轻人的消费观念越超前，甚至可以用畸形来形容。可以这么说，商人的唯利是图导致了少部分不理智男性以及女性的极度膨胀的消费，而少部分三观不正的言论又滋生出了现在所谓的“男权”、“女权”。疯狂消费只是图一时之快，80、90后是最知孝道的一代，不说为了我们下一代这种言之稍早的话，起码当前要好好努力养活自己。
我们都是好孩子，最最善良的孩子。
本文英语部分转自https://www.quora.com/What-is-Double-11-in-China-Is-it-a-famous-festival，如有侵权，请联系作者删除
