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The Double Ninth Festival

963 views. 2017-10-29 23:02 |Individual Classification:Opinions

    The Chongyang Festival or the Double Ninth Festival falled on 28 October this year.
    What's the connection between the date 99 and 28 October? Chongyang means 9th day of 9th lunar month, which falled on 28 October 2017.
    How the Chongyang festivel came from?

    In an ancient and mysterious book Yi Jing, or The Book of Changes, number 6 was thought to be a Yin character, meaning feminine or negative, while nubmer 9 was thought to be Yang,meaning masculing or positive. Therefore, the number nine in both month and day create the Double Ninth Festival, ro Chongyang Festival.

    Chong in Chinese means double, also, as double ninth was pronounced the same as the word to signify forever, both are "Jiu Jiu," Chinese character considered it an auspicious day worth celebration. That's why ancient Chinese began to celebrate this festival long ago.

    There are six things you should do:

    1.Wearing cornel twigs (Dogwood)

    2.Enjoying chrysanthemum flowers

    3.Eating Double Ninth cake

    4.Drinking chrysanthemum flower wine

    5.Climbing heights

    6.Family get-togethers

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