Festival handicrafts help village women

Qiqiao Festival, a Chinese version of Valentine's Day, is enticing more women in Xihe county, Gansu province, to work on festival handicrafts to help promote economic development.

Listed in the first batch of State-level intangible cultural heritage in 2008, the festival, also known as Qixi Festival, features song and dance performances highlighting delicate costumes with fine embroidery.

It falls on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar.