Today marks Chinese Valentine’s Day, also known as Qixi Festival, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month each year. Regardless of age, couples across the country are keen to make their romantic love story memorable on this special day. /VCG Photo

The Taizhou Public Security Bureau in east China’s Jiangsu Province invited fiancees of SWAT police officers to take wedding photos on Thursday. The couples then obtained their their marriage licenses during the Qixi Festival on the following day. /VCG Photo

A couple in a long-distance relationship dressed as the iconic cowherd and weaver girl in the Chinese mythology that the Qixi Festival commemorates. They met on a skywalk in south China’s Guangdong Province, just as the characters from the legend do each year after they were banished to opposite sides of the Milky Way, and allowed to only meet once a year. /VCG Photo

A Beijing community held a celebration for 10 elderly couples, where the participants donned suits and wedding gowns to commemorate the days they’ve spent together. /VCG Photo

About 15 couples in east China’s Anhui Province were invited to a banquet at an aquarium, where they enjoyed a romantic dinner in an underwater tunnel. /VCG Photo