Women in wedding gowns participate in a brides' race event organised by a shopping mall to celebrate the upcoming Qixi Festival in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, China, on August 12. The Qixi Festival, also known as the Double Seven Festival, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh month in Chinese lunar calendar, is the Chinese version of the Valentine's Day. The festival falls on August 13 this year. Reuters/Stringer