Chinese Valentine's Day
By staff reporter DANG XIAOFEI
【摘 要】THE seventh day of the seventh month on the lunar calendar is the Chinese Qixi Festival, also called the Chinese Valentine’s Day in recent years and the Dexterity Praying Day or Girls’ Day in ancient times. It is a day to pray for a happy marriage and to be a woman of ingenuity. Qixi Festival is the most romantic festival among traditional Chinese festivals, and dates back over 2,000 years. 【期刊名称】《今日中国：英文版》 【年(卷),期】2019(068)007 【总页数】2
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T HE seventh day of the seventh month on the lunar calendar is the Chinese Qixi Festival, also called the Chinese Valentine's Day in recent years and the Dexterity Praying Day or Girls' Day in ancient times. It is a day to pray for a happy marriage and to be a woman of ingenuity. Qixi Festival is the most romantic festival among traditional Chinese festivals, and dates back over 2,000 years.
Origin
In the ancient past, Chinese people, amazed and awed by heavenly galaxies and other natural phenomena, imagined that every star in the sky represented a deity in charge of something in the universe.For
Chinese Valentine’s Day
