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“Chinese Valentine's Day" we celebrate it like this!
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Happy Qixi Festival~

“Chinese Valentine's Day"

we celebrate it like this!


Today is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. It is the Traditional Chinese Qixi Festival, also known as the "Chinese Valentine's Day". In ancient China, girls usually hold praying ceremony on this day to express their wish for a happy marriage.



How would you celebrate this great festival? Many foreign friends living in China choose to celebrate it in their own way.


Live broadcast featured the combination of Chinese and Western styles
At 19:30 this evening, WenzhouDaily hosts a special live broadcast featured the combination of Chinese and Western styles in "Meeting · Wuma" Livestreaming Studio located in Wenzhou's Historical and Cultural District.

Singing

Brett and Michaela, the brother and sister from South Africa, participate in this special live broadcast event. They are invited to sing the popular love songs"Just the way you are" (English song) and "At least I have you" (Chinese song) with their sweet and moving singing on the spot.







Musical Instrument

Petros,a keyboard player from Zambia, makes the atmosphere more exciting through his wonderful live performance.


History Explanation

Zhu Ming, the Wenzhou folklore expert, explains us the traditional story about Qixi Festival.



Traditioanl Clothes


Traditional Food

The dim sum chef makes the traditional Qixi Festival snack - Maqiao and distributes them to the audience on the spot. (Maqiao: Made with high-quality flour, cane sugar, lard, salt, soda and other raw materials, modulated into a tongue shape, sprinkled with sesame seeds, then put them into oven to bake out)





A Philippine social media influencer's VLOG for Quxi Festival

As a filming volunteer for WenzhouDaily, Karen, a Philippine friend living in Foshan City, Guangdong Province, also specially take a short video about Qixi Festival for sharing her holiday story with us.


In this loving festival, Wenzhoudaily also expects you to share with us the love story that belongs to you and him/her.


Either a text or a Vlog is OK. You can send it to the WenzhouDaily WeChat background.


We will select the 5 mostinteresting / most touching / most romantic love stories and push them onto our media platform.


And we will send you a set of Chinese traditional Qixi Festival snack- Ma Qiao~ Don't miss it.



At last, WenzhouDaily wishes you 

a sweet love! Happy Holiday!

Writer|Vicki Song

Editor|Vicki Song

Translator|Eric Ye