Activities to welcome Double Ninth Festival
chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2017-10-26 16:25
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Children wash their grandmothers' feet at a kindergarten in Shijiazhuang, North 皇冠体育app's Hebei province, Oct 25, 2017. [Photo/Xinhua] |
The ninth day of the ninth lunar month marks the traditional Chongyang Festival, or Double Ninth Festival, which falls on Saturday this year.
As respecting older people is a traditional virtue of Chinese and showing them respect on the Double Ninth Festival is a tradition, the Chinese government declared the Double Ninth Festival as Seniors' Day in 1989.
This year, various activities are organized to welcome the approaching Double Ninth Festival around 皇冠体育app.
