What better time than Qixi, also known as Chinese Valentine’s Day, to burst the love bubble through these poignant unromantic movies
Qixi Festival, Valentine’s Day, Singles Day, Internet Valentine’s Day...the list of holidays dedicated to love in China seems to grow longer every few years. The Qixi Festival, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month (August 22 this year), is the one day of the year when, according to legend, the goddess Zhinü and farm boy Niulang can meet. The festival offers yet another yet another occasion for couples to celebrate, to the envy (or indifference) of many single people.
Tan Yunfei is the editorial director of The World of Chinese. She reports on Chinese language, food, traditions, and society. Having grown up in a rural community and mainly lived in the cities since college, she tries to explore and better understand China's evolving rural and urban life with all readers.
Liu Jue is the co-managing editor of The World of Chinese Magazine. She has a Master of Arts in Communication from Middle Tennessee State University, and a Bachelor of Arts from Minzu University. She has been working for TWOC since 2012. She is interested in covering history, traditional culture, and Chinese language.
Yang Tingting is a Chinese editor at The World of Chinese. Interested in telling Chinese stories, she writes mainly about culture, language, and society.
