Online firefly sales light up opposition
By Shi Yingying in Shanghai | China Daily | Updated: 2012-08-21 08:03
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"We are going to get married next year!" a couple shouts through a loudspeaker at a celebration activity on Sunday for the upcoming Qixi Festival in Chongqing. Qixi Festival, a traditional day of romance in China, falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, and this year it falls on Thursday. Shi Zongwei / China Daily |
With the Qixi Festival only two days away, online sales of fireflies, an illuminating symbol of love, have surged to the dismay of insect experts.
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