the time 重阳节 The Double Ninth Festival

重阳节 The Double Ninth Festival  

The ninthday of the ninth lunar month is the Chong Yang Festival, a traditional festivalin China. The celebrating activities are various and romantic ,includingclimbing mountains , appreciating chrysanthemums , wearing dogwoods , eatingthe Chong Yang cake and so on . “Nine” has the same pronunciation as theChinese character “jiu” which stands for ”a long time” , and is the biggestsingle  figure . Therefore it indicts e have been a lot of poems and works celebrating Chong Yang Festival andpraising chrysanthemums since ancient times. People also believe that climbingmountains can expel bad luck, and indicates “climbing to a higher position” and“longevity”. China designates the ninth day of the ninth month as Senior ‘s Day, which bine tradition with modern times subtly to turn it into a festivalfor respecting , caring about , loving , and helping the elderly people .