Double Ninth Festival: Ninety-nine Senior Citizens' Parade
12-19-2007    www.chinanews.cn

 

www.chinanews.cn, October 31, 2006

 

Xiangfan, China -- Senior citizens enjoy the scenes on the way to visit the city in Xiangfan, Hubei Province, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006. Ninety-nine senior citizens over 80 visited the city by 99 tricycles to greet the forthcoming Double Ninth Festival (the ninth day on the ninth month in Chinese lunar calendar, on which family get together, climbing mountains) for the elderly, which falls on Oct. 30.

Editor: Wang Xinyu
   
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