This year, the National Day is not the only festival during the golden week in China. The seven-day holiday also includes another traditional Chinese festival called Double Ninth Festival, or Chongyang Festival.
This year, October 2 marked Double Ninth Festival, or Chongyang Festival which falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. It is a traditional festival celebrated by Chinese people for the old people since long ago. People usually celebrate it with activities such as climbing mountains, and enjoying chrysanthemum flowers. People will also eat Double Ninth Gao (or Cake) on that day. In Chinese, gao (cake) has the same pronunciation with gao (height). People do so just to hope progress in everything they are engaged in. Since 2013, it has also become a legal festival for the elderly.
To celebrate the Double Ninth Festival for the elderly, Shanghai Post offered free postcards at 435 post offices citywide from September 25 to October 2. Its purpose was to let the members of the public to mail to seniors in their family.
The design of the postcards highlighted filial piety and it was the first time that Shanghai Post issued such kind of postcards. On the postcard, there were commemorative postmarks stamps and mailing was free. A total of 120,000 postcards were available.
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