Old people are no less devoted to love than young people.
600-year-old castle witnesses love.
At 9 o'clock yesterday morning, the Zhonghua Gate Castle, with a width of 128 meters and a height of 22 meters, became a sea of love: thousands of colorful paper cranes almost flooded the south gate of the castle. /kloc-At about 0: 00, seven lucky couples dressed in various wedding dresses boarded the castle and hung seven giant "love birds" folded at the scene on the gate to form a blessing of love and beauty. The scene is romantic and warm.
It is understood that the oldest of these 7 couples is 70 years old and the youngest is 19 years old. Dressed in romantic paper cranes, Zhonghua Gate Castle, which has experienced vicissitudes for more than 600 years, witnessed their love. According to another introduction, the number of paper cranes at the gate of China has reached an astonishing 770,000, which means "Qixi" on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, and this number will apply for the Guinness World Record.
Paper cranes are all made by hand.
The reporter learned that 770,000 paper cranes were all folded by Nanjing citizens, and hundreds of citizens from local 1 1 communities participated in this activity. A citizen who participated in the activity said: "Although the paper crane is small, it takes a lot of effort to fold it, and the fastest one takes 3 minutes to complete." It is reported that these "love birds" took over 20 days to complete.
"It's great to hang the folded paper crane on the Zhonghua Gate and let the ancient castle witness our love." A young couple told reporters that it was with this mentality that many couples took the initiative to find community leaders and received the task of folding "love birds". An old lady with cancer accepted the task of folding 100 in order to express her blessing to her wife, regardless of her weak health.
The mother went on a blind date for her son.
This activity is part of the large-scale festival of "Meet Tanabata" of Jiangsu Radio and Television Group. In addition to the activities of 770,000 paper cranes, the grand occasion of the "10,000-person blind date" is also eye-catching. "Singles" and single ladies from all over the country gathered in Baima Park for a wedding yesterday afternoon. Ten thousand advertisements for marriage are everywhere, hanging in every corner of the park. The organizing committee also organized eight special meetings for unmarried men and women.
At the scene, the reporter saw an interesting phenomenon. Many people are "looking for goals" for their children. Ms. Li, who came to marry her son, told reporters that her son is 29 years old and has no girlfriend. "He has a good condition, but he always says that time is busy and there is no way out. I'll look for him. "
Feng Jicai: Tanabata is not China Valentine's Day.
According to Xinhua News Agency, many people call Valentine's Day in China "Valentine's Day in China". Feng Jicai, vice chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and a famous writer, thinks it is inappropriate to call it "China's affair".
Feng Jicai said that according to folklore, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are all married people, and Tanabata expresses the feelings of "never leaving" and "growing old together" between married men and women, rather than the feelings of lovers before marriage or lovers, which are two feelings at different stages of life.
Feng Jicai believes that it is meaningless to call Valentine's Day in China "Valentine's Day in China" as opposed to Valentine's Day in the West.
Xingtai was named "the hometown of love culture on Qixi"
According to Xinhua News Agency yesterday morning, Xingtai, Hebei Province was officially named "China Tanabata Love Culture Hometown" by China Folk Writers Association.
Located near Tianhe Mountain in the east of Xingtai City, many villages are named after the story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Some folklore experts believe that Tianhe Mountain Eco-tourism Zone is probably the birthplace of the story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl.
In addition, dozens of experts and scholars from China Folk Writers Association, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and other units also discussed Qixi culture in Xingtai yesterday, and adopted the Xingtai Declaration on Protecting Qixi Culture, pointing out the necessity and feasibility of protecting and promoting Qixi culture.