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Chinese Valentine's Day
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Updated: 2006-08-02 16:23

Chinese Valentine's Day, Qixi festival, also known as the Double Seven Festival, falls on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar - July 31 in the western calendar this year. Different activities were held in China to celebrate this festival that dates back to a 2,500-year-old poem from the Han Dynasty.

"The Qixi festival expresses the traditional values of love in China that lovers should live to a ripe age together and be faithful to each other no matter what difficulties they encounter," said Feng Jicai, chairman of the Chinese Folk Literature & Arts Society.  For details about the festival visit:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/language_tips/2006-07/31/content_653343.htm

Newly-wed couples hold paper cranes during a mass wedding ceremony in Nanjing, in east China's Jiangsu province Sunday July 30, 2006. The ceremony is held to mark the Qixi festival. The wall was decorated with 770,000 paper cranes in celebration of the festival, which the organisers hope will qualify for a Guinness World Record for the highest number of paper cranes made in a single event. [AP]


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