The renewed romance of France

Chinese travel to the European country is recovering, following a slump attributed to terrorist attacks in recent years. Xu Lin reports.

Zhang Jiahe explained that the Chinese character fu means good fortune to several curious French onlookers as she calligraphically rendered the word on a red paper square.

The 13-year-old also tied traditional Chinese knots, which are also auspicious symbols in her home culture, at a stall in a flea market near the Saint Julian Cathedral in Le Mans city.