Reviving the long-forgotten Seven Sisters Festival in Singapore

Qixi Festival will be held at the Kong Chow Wui Koon at 321 New Bridge Road on Aug 3 at 7.30pm. PHOTO: CHINATOWN.SG
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SINGAPORE - A long-forgotten festival will be revived here, if heritage consultant and researcher Lynn Wong has her way.

The Qixi Festival, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, is also known as the "Seven Sisters Festival", "Double Seventh Festival" and "Qiqiao Festival".

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