This year’s combined Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holiday in China, from September 29 to October 6, saw a surge in the number of couples holding wedding ceremonies.
Xu Dong, who received his master’s degree this June and now works at a public institution in Xingtai, Hebei Province in north China, told local news platform Hebnews.cn that he had received no fewer than four wedding invitations for the eight-day holiday.
He attended his college classmate’s wedding in Tianjin Municipality and gave the couple a 1,001 yuan ($137.2) red envelope, or hongbao, a traditional Chinese token to wish the newlyweds good luck as they embark on this new chapter in life.
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