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What is the festival after Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar every year, and the next lunar festival after the Mid-Autumn Festival is the Chung Yeung Festival, which is celebrated on the 9th day of the 9th month of the lunar calendar every year.

The Chung Yeung Festival, also known as the Heavy Nine Festival, the Sunshine Autumn Festival, and "Treading Autumn", is a traditional Chinese festival that falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year. Celebration of Chrysanthemum Festival generally includes activities such as going out to enjoy the autumn, climbing up to a high altitude, viewing chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods all over the place, eating Chrysanthemum cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine, and so on. The Chongyang Festival was formed as early as the Warring States period, and was officially designated as a folk festival in the Tang Dynasty, and has since been inherited by successive dynasties. Chrysanthemums and spring trekking on the third day of the third month of March are both family out of the house, and on the day of the Chrysanthemums all the relatives have to climb up together to "avoid disasters".

"I Ching" in the "six" as the number of yin, the "nine" as the number of yang, September 9, the sun and the moon and yang, the two nine heavy, so it is said that Chongyang, also known as the heavy nine. Chongyang Festival has been formed as early as the Warring States period, since the Wei-Jin Chongyang atmosphere has become increasingly rich, doubly so by the literati and writers, to the Tang Dynasty was officially designated as a folk festival, and since then the successive dynasties have been inherited to the present day.

China's nine lunar September 9 was designated as the Day of the Elderly, advocating the whole society to establish respect for the elderly, respect for the elderly, love for the elderly, help the elderly culture. 2006 May 20, Chongyang Festival was included in the State Council in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.