(Photo: Chinanews.com)

A hundred of singles lit and flew Kongming lanterns in Shanghai on the evening of Nov 3, 2014, wishing to find their better halves as soon as possible.

In a few days it will be the annual Single's Day which falls on Nov 11. It first became labeled "Single's Day" or "Single Stick Day" in the 1990s after some college students came up with the idea that if Nov11 is written in Roman numerals, it looks like four single lonely sticks.

11月3日晚，在上海举行的一场名为“点亮命星，我要脱单”的祈福活动吸引了百名单身男女参加。他们用集体放飞孔明灯的方式为自己祈福，希望早日“脱单”。

再过几天就是被称为光棍节的11月11日了。光棍节的说法是上世纪90年代由大学生提出的，因为11月11日有四个1而被称为光棍节。

Editor: Wang

Source: english.eastday.com