Is Valentine's Day Lantern Festival or Chinese Valentine's Day in China?

Valentine's Day in China is Lantern Festival and Valentine's Day in China. Lantern Festival and Qixi Festival are both called Valentine's Day in China, but Lantern Festival is more similar to Valentine's Day in customs.

Lantern Festival is the 15th day of the first lunar month, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiao Yuan Festival or Lantern Festival. It is the first important festival after the Spring Festival, and it is also a romantic festival. In ancient times, unmarried girls didn't leave their homes at ordinary times, and only the Lantern Festival was allowed to go out and watch lights together, which provided opportunities for young men and women to meet, so the Lantern Festival can be said to be the authentic Valentine's Day in China.

2. Valentine's Day in China falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, which is also called Begging for Clevership Festival or Seven Sisters's birthday. Valentine's Day in China began in ancient times, spread in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. Tanabata is endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", which makes it a festival symbolizing love, thus it is considered as the most romantic traditional festival in China, and it also has the cultural meaning of "China Valentine's Day" in contemporary times.