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The Chongyang Festival falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the
Chinese lunar calendar, so it is also known as the Double Ninth Festival The
festival is based on the theory of Yin and Yang, the two opposing principles
in nature
Yin is feminine, negative principle, while Yang is masculine and positive
The ancients believed that all natural phenomena could be explained by this
theory Numbers are related to this theory Even numbers belong to Yin and odd numbers to Yang The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is a day when
the two Yang numbers meet
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