Qixi: The Chinese Festival of Love
There are many holidays around the world that celebrate love. Of course the most well known and widely extended of these is Valentine’s Day, but there are also more localized days that celebrate romantic love such as the Romanian Dragobete or St. George’s Day in Catalunya and the Chinese celebration of Qixi which I would like to discuss today. Qixi falls on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, this year coinciding with August 25th on…
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