讓我們來追溯雙十一的誕生史.

　　中國的很多傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日都可以追溯到上千年以前，但光混節(jié)卻是個最近幾年才興起的節(jié)日。沒人能確切說出是誰先想出了這個節(jié)日，但能夠肯定的是它最早出現(xiàn)在上世紀九十年代中期，是大學生們的一項傳統(tǒng)。

　　For a country where many major holidays can be traced back thousands of years, Singles Day is a rreshingly recent invention. No one is quite sure exactly who first thought it up, but it dinitely emerged as a student tradition in the mid-1990s. The most widely-accepted story is that it emerged from the dorms of Nanjing University in 1993 when four single male students got together to discuss how to break free of the loneliness and monotony of single life. One suggested that because of the ones in the date, November 11 would be a good day on which to organize activities for singles.

　　大家公認的說法是，1993年在南京大學的宿舍里，有4個單身男生聚在一起討論如何擺脫單身生活的孤獨和乏味時，其中一個建議說11月11日恰好是四個數(shù)字1組成的，就像4個光棍，所以這天可能會是個為光棍們組織活動的好日子。

　　What started as an idea executed by a small group of friends gradually became a university tradition. Singles Day grew into something like the anti-Valentines day, a day China’s single young people – at first just men, but later single women adopted the tradition as well – could use as an excuse to get together and do fun stuff like visit karaoke bars together.

　　就這樣，只是由幾個朋友想出來的主意慢慢變成了大學里的一項傳統(tǒng)。光棍節(jié)，逐漸發(fā)展成一個與情人節(jié)相對的節(jié)日，一開始是單身男性的節(jié)日，后來單身女性也加入其中，把它當做一個和朋友聚餐玩樂的節(jié)日。

　　The fact that the holiday went from local to national in less than two decades likely has a lot to do with China’s demographics and its culture. The country has a serious gender gap – by 2020 it will have 35 million more men than it does women. And because there’s immense family pressure on many young Chinese men and women to find a suitable partner and marry young, young people of both genders embraced the holiday as a kind of release.

　　光棍節(jié)能在短短二十多年的時間里從一個小眾節(jié)日成為一個全國范圍內(nèi)的節(jié)日和中國的人口特點及文化是分不開的。中國的男女比例差異較大，到2020年男性人口將比女性人口多出3500萬。而很多年輕人又承受著來自家庭的“催婚”壓力，所以單身男性和女性都把光棍節(jié)看做是一個解脫的節(jié)日。