Qixi Festival
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Aug 21, 2026
Diego LajeHOST
They're drawn by the region's immersive cultural interactions, live performances, and scenic spots.
Diego LajeHOST
Couples across China have been marking the Qixi Festival, or Chinese Valentine's Day.
Ehsan KevaniCORRESPONDENT
It includes
Diego LajeHOST
exchanging gifts, stargazing, and fireworks.
NatHOST
I'm fully with you.
FinnPANELIST
I wasn't across the Qixi Festival.
NatHOST
Qixi, yeah.
Mike EHOST
Well, happy Chinese Valentine's Day to everyone listening-
speaker_0NARRATOR
sign next to the installation says, it's a red thread of fate.
speaker_0NARRATOR
A part of this year's Tainan Qixi Festival, also known as Chinese Valentine's Day.
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The city hopes visitors will immerse themselves in the city of love, even during ghost month.
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When people come to Tainan, they can connect with many expected strokes of fate through both invisible and visible red threads.
Steve HatherlyHOST
Another one's tying the knot on a cruise ship, and on a university campus, an algorithm just matched two strangers with a 77% compatibility score, and it worked.
Steve HatherlyHOST
It is Qixi season.
Steve HatherlyHOST
It's Chinese Valentine's Day, except the real legend behind it has almost nothing to do with romance, at least the way we think about it.
Steve HatherlyHOST
Today, we'll get into the myth, the money, the apps, and what falling in love in China actually looks like in 2026.
Steve HatherlyHOST
My name's Steve Hatherly, and I thank you very much for being with us today.
Steve HatherlyHOST
And for the show, I'm with Feifei and Yushan.
Steve HatherlyHOST
First up, every August, Qixi gets rebranded across social media and shopping platforms as Chinese Valentine's Day.
Steve HatherlyHOST
Retailers push the roses, the couples promotions, the whole script, but the actual folklore behind the holiday tells a bit of a different story, and so does the way young people, Chinese, uh, Ch- young Chinese people, excuse me, are actually falling in love right now because this year, two very different forces are quietly reshaping romance here in the country.
YushanHOST
... perfect and so beautiful and so, I don't know, like pleasing to the eye.
Steve HatherlyHOST
Well, this is really interesting because this connects to our Qixi survey result.
YushanHOST
Uh-huh.
YushanHOST
[laughs] Right.
EmilyHOST
Y que existe un día de los enamorados chinos con más de dos mil años de historia, mucho más antiguo que San Valentín.
EmilyHOST
Hoy veremos el origen del Qixi Jie.
NikkiHOST
Hoy descubrirás qué significan expresiones como tan shen kou, sa kou liang, xu huan ai.
NikkiHOST
Palabras que millones de jóvenes chinos, eh, saben y utilizan y que probablemente nunca aprenderás preparando el HSK.
13 MINS LATER
NikkiHOST
[risas] Entonces, la broma aquí es que cuando una pra-- pareja presume continuamente de su amor delante de personas solteras, les están echando comida para los perros.
EmilyHOST
Entonces, usamos así.
EmilyHOST
Por ejemplo, una pareja publica veinte fotos románticas durante Qixi.
EmilyHOST
Entonces, un amigo comenta: "bie zakou liangle", deja ya de presumir tu-- vuestro amor.
Shen TingHOST
Tonight, we look up at the same sky that poets have gazed upon for more than 2,000 years.
Shen TingHOST
In China, the seventh night of the seventh lunar month is known as Qi Xi, the night of sevens.
Shen TingHOST
It begins with the story written in the stars.
Shen TingHOST
According to legend, Zhi Nu, the weaving maid, and Niu Lang, the cowherd, were lovers separated by the celestial river we call the Milky Way.
10 MINS LATER
Shen TingHOST
The Refugee's Heart Li Qingzhao is China's greatest female poet and one of the most emotionally unflinching writers in any tradition.
Shen TingHOST
She lived through the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, fled south as a war refugee and lost her beloved husband Zhao Mingcheng early.
Shen TingHOST
When she writes about Qi Xi, she writes not as a romantic but as a widow in a broken world.
Shen TingHOST
She projects her own chaos onto the heavens.
RonHOST
Oh, happy Valentine's Day to all our viewers in China.
RonHOST
This was yesterday at the Shenzhen Shubai Market, which he mentioned was the day before Qixi Festival, which is Chinese Valentine's Day.
RonHOST
But look at these mobs of people.
RonHOST
See if I can get this on full screen.