A couple walking at a mall during the Qixi festival in Beijing, China. The Qixi festival, China’s equivalent of St Valentine’s Day, is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Photograph: EPA

Along the concrete lanes between the athleisure shops and gelato bars, atonal trance music oozing out of hidden speakers, a throng of young couples walked side by side or hand in hand.

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