On August 28, the 2025 Changsha "Our Festival - Qixi" Event was held in Hanhui Village, Shaping Neighborhood, Kaifu District, Changsha City. Sixteen couples, along with ten pairs of representatives celebrating their golden and silver wedding anniversaries, made a lifelong commitment to each other during solemn and elegant traditional Chinese wedding rituals. The event promoted simple and meaningful wedding ceremonies while opposing extravagance, waste, and exorbitant dowry costs, fostering a romantic, civilized, and uplifting atmosphere for the Qixi Festival. It also sought to instill in young people sound perspectives on love, family, and life. (Photo/Tian Chao, Hunan Daily)

The Qixi Festival, often called China's Valentine's Day and also known as the Double Seventh Festival, falls on the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar. 

On August 28, the 2025 Changsha "Our Festival - Qixi" Event was held in Hanhui Village, Shaping Neighborhood, Kaifu District, Changsha City. Sixteen couples, along with ten pairs of representatives celebrating their golden and silver wedding anniversaries, made a lifelong commitment to each other during solemn and elegant traditional Chinese wedding rituals. The event promoted simple and meaningful wedding ceremonies while opposing extravagance, waste, and exorbitant dowry costs, fostering a romantic, civilized, and uplifting atmosphere for the Qixi Festival. It also sought to instill in young people sound perspectives on love, family, and life. (Photo/Tian Chao, Hunan Daily)

On August 28, the 2025 Changsha "Our Festival - Qixi" Event was held in Hanhui Village, Shaping Neighborhood, Kaifu District, Changsha City. Sixteen couples, along with ten pairs of representatives celebrating their golden and silver wedding anniversaries, made a lifelong commitment to each other during solemn and elegant traditional Chinese wedding rituals. The event promoted simple and meaningful wedding ceremonies while opposing extravagance, waste, and exorbitant dowry costs, fostering a romantic, civilized, and uplifting atmosphere for the Qixi Festival. It also sought to instill in young people sound perspectives on love, family, and life. (Photo/Tian Chao, Hunan Daily)

On August 28, the 2025 Changsha "Our Festival - Qixi" Event was held in Hanhui Village, Shaping Neighborhood, Kaifu District, Changsha City. Sixteen couples, along with ten pairs of representatives celebrating their golden and silver wedding anniversaries, made a lifelong commitment to each other during solemn and elegant traditional Chinese wedding rituals. The event promoted simple and meaningful wedding ceremonies while opposing extravagance, waste, and exorbitant dowry costs, fostering a romantic, civilized, and uplifting atmosphere for the Qixi Festival. It also sought to instill in young people sound perspectives on love, family, and life. (Photo/Tian Chao, Hunan Daily)

On August 28, the 2025 Changsha "Our Festival - Qixi" Event was held in Hanhui Village, Shaping Neighborhood, Kaifu District, Changsha City. Sixteen couples, along with ten pairs of representatives celebrating their golden and silver wedding anniversaries, made a lifelong commitment to each other during solemn and elegant traditional Chinese wedding rituals. The event promoted simple and meaningful wedding ceremonies while opposing extravagance, waste, and exorbitant dowry costs, fostering a romantic, civilized, and uplifting atmosphere for the Qixi Festival. It also sought to instill in young people sound perspectives on love, family, and life. (Photo/Tian Chao, Hunan Daily)

On August 28, the 2025 Changsha "Our Festival - Qixi" Event was held in Hanhui Village, Shaping Neighborhood, Kaifu District, Changsha City. Sixteen couples, along with ten pairs of representatives celebrating their golden and silver wedding anniversaries, made a lifelong commitment to each other during solemn and elegant traditional Chinese wedding rituals. The event promoted simple and meaningful wedding ceremonies while opposing extravagance, waste, and exorbitant dowry costs, fostering a romantic, civilized, and uplifting atmosphere for the Qixi Festival. It also sought to instill in young people sound perspectives on love, family, and life. (Photo/Tian Chao, Hunan Daily)

This article is from Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Kuang Zhenzhen

Chinese source: hunantoday