黑色星期五(Black Friday)
國(guó)內(nèi)有雙十一,國(guó)外有黑色星期五(Black Friday),近幾年黑五的盛行更多是源于它的購(gòu)物節(jié)屬性。
不同于雙十一,它的日期并非固定,而是每年感恩節(jié)的第二天。感恩節(jié)是每年11月的第四個(gè)星期四,那么黑五則是11月的第四個(gè)星期五。從1952年起,這一天就被認(rèn)作是圣誕購(gòu)物季的開(kāi)端。
Black Friday is an informal name for the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States (the fourth Thursday of November), which has been regarded as the beginning of the country's Christmas shopping season since 1952.?
那么,這一天為什么會(huì)被稱(chēng)為“黑色”星期五呢?
據(jù)稱(chēng),這個(gè)說(shuō)法最早可以追溯到1961年的費(fèi)城,最初是指感恩節(jié)后擁堵的行人和繁重的交通。
The earliest evidence of the phrase Black Friday applied to the day after Thanksgiving in a shopping context suggests that the term originated in Philadelphia, where it was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic that would occur on the day after Thanksgiving.?
隨著黑五的日漸流行,人們給了它一個(gè)更為大眾接受的解釋?zhuān)?br>
在這一天,國(guó)外的商場(chǎng)都會(huì)推出大量的打折和優(yōu)惠活動(dòng),進(jìn)行一次大規(guī)模的促銷(xiāo)。據(jù)說(shuō)美國(guó)的商場(chǎng)一般以紅筆記錄赤字,以黑筆記錄盈利,所以這一天會(huì)被稱(chēng)作黑色星期五。
事實(shí)上,黑色星期五最初是源于西方宗教的說(shuō)法:耶穌基督死在星期五,13又是不吉利的數(shù)字,每當(dāng)13日和星期五是一天,那么這一天就會(huì)被稱(chēng)作“黑色星期五”,暗示這是極為不吉利的一天。