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the Double Ninth Festival - from the SCMP 重阳节 Chóngyáng jié Hill fires and a mythical swordsman: Chung Yeung Festival in Hong Kong explained Often confused with Ching Ming Festival, event also known as Double Ninth Festival involves grave-sweeping practices but centres on longevity and the celebration of a legend
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Seems like another version of Qing Ming, to me. We visited Jiaying's ma-ternal grandmother's last residence and burial ground (nearby), and cleaned it up just like for her pa-ternal ancestors on Qing Ming. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongyang_Festival Her ma-ternal grandmother, Jiaying tells me, was more of a peasant type, needed to work in the field, and so didn't have to endure the foot binding that her pa-ternal grandmother did. Jiaying spent her first seven years on this property, before she went to attend school in Yulin. The building she lived in is no longer there - after a couple of deaths in the family (a 24 year-old uncle, and a 10 year-old son of another uncle), she (the grandmother) moved to this smaller building next to the old one. Some of our relatives on that side. Notice the water pump. It still looks functional, but un-primed. The old house was off to the right in this picture. An idyllic scene nearby. Lots of hibiscus flowers nearby
