Chinese Valentine's Day is celebrated with various activities

In many places in China, the Qixi Festival, also known as Chinese Valentine's Day, is celebrated with numerous interesting activities.

The Qixi Festival, which has its origins in a 2,000-year-old legend of two lovers, takes place on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Chinese lunar calendar. This year the festival falls on August 10th.

In Zhucun Village in southern China's Guangdong Province, the traditional customs of Qixi Festival have remained relatively intact. At this time of year, villagers often make appropriate handicrafts to celebrate the day for lovers.

In addition, artistic performances and parties were also held, allowing people to feel the romantic atmosphere of this traditional festival and the depth of traditional Chinese culture.

Xihe County in northwest China's Gansu Province has organized a series of themed events to comprehensively showcase Qixi Festival customs and local culture.

In Yiyuan County, east China's Shandong Province, folk cultural performances were held to promote a modern, novel and simple wedding culture.

On this special day, a total of 77 newlyweds tied the knot in a joint wedding ceremony in Lushi County, central China's Henan Province.

In Wucheng city, east China's Jiangxi province, one hundred couples got married and held a joint traditional wedding ceremony.

Chinese Valentine's Day is celebrated with various activities

Russia's Defense Ministry said on Saturday that its army had destroyed a Ukrainian command post and dozens of military vehicles in the border area of ​​the Kursk region, while Ukraine claimed to have damaged several Russian ships and a natural gas drilling platform.

According to the latest combat report from the Ministry of Defense, Russian forces used Iskander tactical missiles to eliminate 15 command personnel of the 22nd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Army along the border near Kursk.

The ministry reported that Ukraine had recently lost a total of 1,120 soldiers and 140 pieces of equipment in the Kursk direction, including 22 tanks and 20 armored personnel carriers.

The Russian military continued to repel Ukrainian attempts to enter Russian territory, the ministry said.

The ministry said the Russian air defense system destroyed 26 Ukrainian drones over Kursk and six more over the Yaroslavl region on Friday night.

On Saturday, Ukraine also released footage showing its Su-34 fighter jets dropping aerial bombs at night in the Kursk border area, targeting Ukrainian military personnel and equipment.

According to the Russian state television channel Zvezda, a video showed a drone destroying an American-made mine-resistant anti-ambush vehicle belonging to the Ukrainian army in Kursk.

Meanwhile, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that 72 clashes took place in the frontline areas on Saturday, a third of them in the direction of Pokrovsk.

In addition, according to the General Staff, the Russian army carried out attacks near the border region with Sumy Oblast in Ukraine.

Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Service reported on Saturday that the Ukrainian army destroyed a Russian military patrol boat and damaged three other vessels using unmanned vehicles near the Black Sea village in western Crimea from Friday night to Saturday morning.

On the same day, Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk said on social media that the navy, in cooperation with defense intelligence, had attacked a Russian-controlled natural gas drilling platform in the Black Sea.

He claimed that there were no civilians on board the platform. The platform was not performing its regular function but was being used by Russia to hamper the operation of the temporary grain corridor in the Black Sea.

A reaction from the Russian side to the allegations is still pending.

Russia destroys Ukrainian commando team in Kursk, Ukraine damages Russian ships and gas drilling platform