Customers select flowers ahead of Chinese Valentine's day
A staff member in a flower shop prepares a bunch of flowers in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, July 31, 2014, as the "Qixi" festival approaches. "Qixi" is a traditional Chinese Valentine's day celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. (Xinhua/Peng Zhaozhi)