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The Double Ninth Festival As a traditional Chinese festival, the Double Ninth Festival is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. The whole families usually go out together to go for an outing at the third day of the lunar third month, and climb mountains with relatives to avoid disasters on the Double Ninth Festival. In Book of Changes, the number six is regarded as a yin number while number nine is regarded as a yang number. The ninth day of the ninth month, a day when two ninths meet, is also a double yang day, for which it is called Chong Yang Festival or Chong Jiu (Chong means repeat in Chinese and Jiu means number nine in English). In Chinese, the characters Jiu Jiu that means double nine in English is homophonous with the characters Jiu Jiu that means longevity in English, so this festival is given the meaning of longevity. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, there were already banquets to be given to pray for longevity. In 1989, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month was set as The Seniors’ Day to advocate the whole society to build a good social atmosphere of respecting, loving and helping the elderly people. The Double Nine Festival was included into the national lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage by State council on May 20th, 2006. This festival that can be dated as early as to pre-Qin times was mentioned in Songs of Chu written in Warring States Period (475 - 221 BC). Qu Yuan ever wrote in Excursions “Collect yang qi in Cloud Nine to visit the sky kingdom”. In this poem, the characters Chong Yang mean sky rather than festival. In the period of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Pi, the emperor Weiwen, wrote the drinking party clearly in A Letter to Zhong Yao “With time going by, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month was coming again. The number nine was regarded as yang. The ninth day of the ninth month was a double Yang day, hence this festival got its name of Chong Yang Festival. The reason why the party participators were the old was that this