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 | A salesclerk prepares a heart-shaped box of chocolates for a customer near a display showing heart-shaped chocolates and roses set for Chinese Valentine's Day at a coffee stand in a mall Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2005. Qixi festival, known as the Chinese Valentine's, is based on the lunar calendar and the legend of two lovers who re-unite across the milky way once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. click to open  |  | A Chinese couple kiss as passers-by watch during a kissing contest in Wuhan, in central China's Henan province, August 11, 2005. The competition is held to celebrate the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, known as the Chinese 'Valentine's Day', on Thursday. According to a 2,000-year-old Chinese legend, a Chinese cowherd and a weaver maid fell in love with each other, but was split by the Queen of Heaven. The couple can only meet once a year on a bridge of magpies across the Milky Way on the evening of the day. click to open |
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