文档介绍：Christmas Day?
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Valentine's Day ?
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New Year's Day ?
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Oh,that’right! It’s your own birthday!!
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Perhaps you will remember next Tuesday ...
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—— The Double Ninth Festival ！
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Contents
♦Double-Ninth Festival,s Origin(来源)
♦Double-Ninth Festival,s Legend(传说)
♦Double-Ninth Festival,s Customs****俗)
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Origin(来源)
The "Double Ninth Festival", also known as the "Chong-yang festival", is a traditional Chinese festival which falls on the 9th day of the 9th month of the lunar calendar(阴历). In an ancient book Yi Jing, or The Book of Changes, number "6" was thought to be of Yin character, meaning feminine(阴性的) or negative, while number "9" was thought to be Yang, meaning masculine(阳性的) or positive. The number nine in both month and day creates the Double Ninth Festival, or Chong Yang Festival, where “Chong” means double in Chinese. The double ninth festival as early as already formed in the Warring States time(战国时期), to the Tang Dynasty(朝代), it has been decided as officially folk(民间的) the holiday, hereafter the double ninth festival follows until now.
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Legend(传说)
According to the legend(刻印文字), in ancient times, there lived a man named Fei Changfang who had become an immortal(神仙). One day He told his student Huan Jing that disaster would come to his family on the ninth day of the ninth month. To avoid the disaster, he instructed Huan Jing to make a red bag for each family member and put sprigs(小枝) of dogwood(茱萸) in every bag. He asked everyone to tie a bag to his arm and climb to the top of a mountain and drink some chrysanthemum(菊花) wine.
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On hearing this, Huan Jing and his family did exactly what his teacher said. The whole family climbed a nearby mountain and did not return until the evening. When they got back home, they found all their animals dead, including chickens, sheep, dogs and even the powerful ox(公牛). However, the family members were safe. And so it happened that climbi