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光棍节

光棍節
Guāng gùn jié

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Guāng gùn jié
  1. 1.Singles' Day (November 11), originally a day of activities for single people, but now also the world's biggest annual retail sales day

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  1. 1.Singles' Day, celebrated annually on the 11th of November

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Etymology

From being a day for single people who are not in a relationship. From slang for a bachelor without familial branches being a bare stick, and the set of ones in the date of 11/11 being a set of sticks, a set of singles. Originating at the University of Nanjing in the 1990s as Bachelors' Day, and popularized as a shopping event day by Alibaba in the 2000s.

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