Chinese Valentines’ Day, also known as Double Sevens Festival or Qixi Festival， falls on the seventh day of the seven lunar month. Qixi – literally the “night of sevens” – is the nearest Chinese equivalent to the Western St Valentine’s Day tradition. This year the festival takes place on August 26th and already bookings for romantic getaways are going off the scale.
The origin of Qixi Festival is about a story.
In late summer, the stars Altair and Vega are high in the night sky, and the Chinese tell the following love story, of which there are many variations:
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