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Qixi: Double Seventh Festival

David Leffman May 16, 2023 Uncategorized Leave a Comment

The letter accompanying this print was written at Shanghai by the Reverend Hallock on 8 August 1929, and this picture was made for Qixi, the Double Seventh Festival (held on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month – 11 August in 1929). Like Valentine’s day in the West, the festival celebrates romance. The story goes that a cowherd fell …

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