Chongyang Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival held on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year. Nine” number in the “I Ching” for the number of Yang, “nine nine” two Yang number is heavy, so it is called “Chongyang”; because the sun and the moon are on the ninth, so it is also known as “Chongjiu “The ninth day of the ninth month of the Chinese lunar calendar in 1989 was
In 1989, the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar was designated as the Day of the Elderly, advocating that society as a whole should establish a culture of respecting, honouring, caring for and assisting the elderly; on 20 May 2006, the Chung Yeung Festival was included in the list of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritages by the State Council.
