Double Ninth Festival

English Etymology A calque of en zh 重九. Noun Double Ninth Festival A traditional Chinese holiday falling on the ninth day of the ninth month in the Chinese calendar. en 24 October 1978 15 October 1978 Ma Ho-ching Shansi Commune Rejects County Directive, Earns Greater Income Daily Report: People's Republic of China https://archive.org/details/fbis-reports_prex-710fbis-chi-78-206/page/n65/ I 206 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578825&seq=253 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Peking NCNA Domestic Service zh 0892-0141 1113433 People's Republic of China: North Region K 3 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015043578825&seq=323 Before the double ninth festival [ninth day of ninth lunar month], Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province, saw a promising year--the output of all autumn grain crops increased 10 percent. Synonyms en Chung Yeung Festival Translations festival Chinese: Cantonese: yue 重陽, yue 重陽節, yue 重陽日, yue 重九 Mandarin: cmn 重陽, cmn 重陽節, cmn 重陽日, cmn 重九 Japanese: ja 重陽 ちょうよう, Chōyō Kazakh: kk Қос тоғыз мерекесі Korean: ko 중양절(重陽節) Manchu: mnc ᡠᠶᡠᠩᡤᡝ ᡳᠨᡝᠩᡤᡳ en terms calqued from Chinese en China Festivals