QiXi Festival | Laser cutting and making Valentine’s Day gifts
The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is Qixi, widely regarded as China’s Valentine’s Day. Legend has it that the youngest daughter of the Jade Emperor (the ruler of the world as per the legend), the Weaver Girl, became tired of the boring immortal life and decided to descend to the mortal world. She met and fell in love with a cowherd, a union strongly objected by the Jade Emperor who in turn forcibly separated them by the Milky [...]