Traditional marriage registration ceremonies held in E China on Chinese Valentine's Day

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Traditional marriage registration ceremonies held in E China on Chinese Valentine's Day

STORY: Traditional marriage registration ceremonies held in E China on Chinese Valentine's Day DATELINE: Aug. 5, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:18 LOCATION: FUZHOU, China CATEGORY: CULTURE/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the activities STORYLINE: Traditional marriage registration ceremonies were held Thursday in Fuzhou, the capital city of east China's Fujian Province to mark this year's Qixi festival, or Chinese Valentine's Day. The staff arranged the marriage registration areas in advance and presented the lovebirds with perfume satchels, embodying their best wishes. The Qixi festival, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, celebrates the legend of the annual meeting between the mythological figures of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Fuzhou, China. (XHTV)

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