摘要
THE traditional Chongyanag Festival-also known as the Festival of the Elderly-falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar.Legend has it that during the Eastern Han Dynasty(25-220),there was a Taoist named Huanjing,whose hometown,Shangcai,now a county in north China’s Henan Province,was ravaged by plague and people were living in miserable conditions.On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month,Huanjing brought dogwood twigs and chrysanthemum liquor back home to relieve his hometown of its suffering.
