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"Double Ninth Day" celebrated to respect the old
(CFP/Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-10-26 12:05


Eighty-six-year-old Gao Xiugui helps her 96-year-old husband Zhao Yangzhen eat a piece of cake to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary on the eve of the Double Ninth Festival, also Senior's Day, in Shandong, east China’s Liaoning province on October 25, 2009. The festival falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. China marks the day to respect and help seniors. [Xinhua]