"This festival brings even more joy than Chinese New Year," said a young man at the 2025 Hainan Seven Fairies Hot Spring Festival held recently in Sandao town, Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County, south China's Hainan Province

The man and his friends pledged to reunite by the Baoting River next year to "bring back all the fun."

The festival coincides with the Qixi Festival, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh month in the Chinese lunar calendar and is commonly known as Chinese Valentine's Day.

Editor Ⅰ: Zhang Wenwen

Editor Ⅱ: Wu Dan

Editor Ⅲ: Liu Guosong