The Double Ninth Festival --the ninth day of the ninth lunar month
The "Chong Yang Festival"
the Festival of Double Ninth
the Chung Yeung Festival
The "Chong Yang Festival" is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, and it is as such known as the Double Ninth Festival.
The Ching Ming Festival in spring and Chung Yeung Festival on the ninth day of the ninth moon are occasions for visiting ancestral graves.
暮春的清明节和农历九月初九的重阳节是往扫墓拜祭先人的日子。
When the Festival of Double Ninth comes round, I'll come for your chrysanthemums again.
待到重阳日还来就菊花。
Many people mark Chung Yeung by climbing hills in remembrance of an ancient Chinese family which escaped plague and death by fleeing to a mountaintop.
不少市民在重阳登山，纪念登高避难的古人。
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