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What festival is August 2nd?
August 2nd this year is Valentine's Day in China.

Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as Qiqiao Sister's Day, Qiqiao Sister's Day or Seven Sisters's Birthday, originated in China and is a traditional festival in China and East Asian countries. The festival comes from the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, and is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month (after the Meiji Restoration, it was changed to the seventh day of the Japanese solar calendar). Because the main participants in this day's activities are girls, the content of the festival activities is mainly begging skills, so people call this day "begging skills festival" or "daughter's day" or "daughter's day". On May 20th, 2006, Tanabata was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council.

China Valentine's Day takes the folklore of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl as the carrier, expressing the feelings of married men and women who never give up and grow old together, and abiding by their commitment to love. With the development of time, Qixi became the Valentine's Day in China.