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Acts of Love: Asia’s Remarkable Romantic Rituals
Love is in the air around Asia: and it’s not restricted to February 14th. Valentine’s Day is certainly popular in the region, with couples packing high-end restaurants and florists and purveyors of cute stuffed animals reporting brisk business. But nations around the region have indigenous traditions that celebrate love in their own unique ways.


ACTS OF LOVE:
ASIA’S REMARKABLE ROMANTIC RITUALS
Love is in the air around Asia: and it’s not restricted to February 14th. Valentine’s Day is certainly popular in the region, with couples packing high-end restaurants and florists and purveyors of cute stuffed animals reporting brisk business. But nations around the region have indigenous traditions that celebrate love in their own unique ways.
OLD FLAMES REIGNITE IN VIETNAM

The village of Khau Vai in northern Vietnam’s remote Ha Giang province is no stranger to love. On the 27th day of the 3rd Lunar month, the settlement plays host to scores of amorous ethnic minority individuals, both young and old, who have trekked through forests and over precipitous mountain trails to express their ardor. The difference between this market and others in Vietnam is that the suitors don’t travel in the hope of finding a life partner. Local myth has it that a young couple from different tribes chose this place as a yearly rendezvous after warring factions within their clans drove them apart, and for the past hundred years or so the market has provided an annual stage on which old flames can reunite, chastely, over bowls of sticky rice and pieces of cake.
KOREA’S K-LOVE LOOK

SEDUCTIVE SERENADE

GOING HUNGRY FOR A HAPPY MARRIAGE

In the evening, women gather to perform the puja (worship) and break their fast by consuming water and food offered by their husbands. The festival is also marked by women dressing up in traditional attire, applying mehndi (henna) on their hands, and participating in communal prayers and rituals.
LET YOUR LOVE FLOAT


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