Chinese Celebrate The Qixi Festival

CHENGDU, CHINA - AUGUST 26: (CHINA OUT) Policemen help a couple cross the 'Love Zebra Crossing' during a disabled persons group wedding held to mark the Qixi Festival, the Chinese equivalent of Valentine's Day on August 26, 2009 in Chengdu of Sichuan Province, China. Thirteen coulples from five districts of Chengdu attended the ceremony. The Qixi Festival, also known as the Double Seventh Festival, falls on the seventh night of the seventh lunar month. The festival originates from a romantic legend of lovers, the cowherder Niulang and fairy Zhinu, who were separated by the Supreme God but reunited across the Milky Way once a year on the day. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images)