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Double Ninth Festival 组员：林青清 梁聪 苏钰 杨洁 brief introduction The 9th day of the 9th lunar (阴历的）month is the traditional Chongyang Festival, or Double Ninth Festival. It usually falls in October in the solar（公历） calendar. According to the I Ching, number “9” was thought to be of Yang, meaning masculine（阳性） or positive. So the number nine in both month and day create the Double Ninth Festival, or Chongyang Festival. customs The Dragon Boat Festival The culture of rice dumpling An essential food of the Dragon Boat Festival . Now the fillings are more diversified ,incluing jujube (枣子）and fresh meat , and ham（火腿肠） and egg yolk . The End * Origins: The festival began as early as the Warring States Period(战国时期).According to the yin/yang dichotomy that forms a basis to the Chinese world view, yin represents the elements of darkness and yang represents life and brightness. The number nine is regarded as yang. The ninth day of the ninth month is a double yang day, hence the name “Chong Yang Festival”. (Chong means “repeat” in Chinese.) The ninth month also heralds（预报） the approach of winter. It is a time when the living need warm clothing, and filial(孝顺的） Chinese sons and daughters extended this to make the festival a time for providing winter clothes for their ancestors. The Double Ninth Festival, therefore, also became an occasi(时机）to visit the graves of dead family members. Clothes made of paper would then be burnt as offerings. Down in the Eastern Han Dynasty(东汉时期）, a plague(瘟疫)devil in Ruhe, as long as it appeared,some people get sick even died who suffer with the disease ravaged by devil. The plague killing the Heng jing‘s parents, the illness has killed most of the villagers. When Heng recovered, he said goodbye to his beloved wife and the villagers, determined to visit immortal（仙长） , the people get rid of the plague devil . Heng jing visited everywhere around the mountains to find immortals, and finally found out one in the east of the o