Qixi Festival, known as the Double Seventh Festival, falls on the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar. [Photo/Official WeChat Account: meilitaizhou_]

Qixi Festival, known as the Double Seventh Festival, falls on the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar.

In the past, women wished for cleverness. All of them threaded the needle with seven threads and the one who finished it first would be declared the cleverest. They spread flowers of seven different colors in the basin to receive dew, called "receiving the tears of the weaving girl". The next morning, they used the dew to clean their eyes, thinking that it could clear them. Hibiscus leaves were applied to wash the hair and combs used to brighten the hair and remove dirt.

It is the Children's Day in Shitang town of Wenling, Taizhou, Zhejiang province. For their children parents make paper pavilions, which are burned after the lunch banquet.