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What is the meaning of "Festival" in "I miss my relatives more every holiday"?
Lunar Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival in China. It takes the cycle of the moon phase as the length of the month, and divides the lunar year into 24 solar terms, which is 2697 years earlier than the western calendar. Traditional festivals in China are calculated according to the lunar calendar. In ancient China, things like tortoise shells were used for divination (shρ). Three divination classics, Lianshan, Guizang and Zhouyi, are collectively referred to as Yijing by later generations and become one of the sources of Chinese civilization. In the Book of Changes, the number "six" is defined as yin number and "nine" is defined as yang number. Therefore, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the day when the sun and the moon meet, so it is called "Double Ninth Festival" or "Double Ninth Festival". The origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. There is a cloud in the Book of Songs: "July is full of fire, and clothes are given in September." Among them, "fire", to some extent, refers to Mars. Retreating in September and autumn means the arrival of the cold season of the year. Therefore, people hold sacrifices for the dormancy of Vulcan people. This ritual of offering sacrifices to fire can be found in the custom of the Double Ninth Festival left over from many places in later generations. In the imperial palace of the Han Dynasty, there was a custom of "wearing dogwood, eating Peng bait and drinking chrysanthemum wine" on September 9, which was later introduced to the people and formed an important custom activity of the Double Ninth Festival. "Picking chrysanthemums under the east fence and seeing Nanshan leisurely" is a famous sentence left by Tao Yuanming, a poet in Jin Dynasty. The poem describes the custom of people watching chrysanthemums and drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival. In the Tang Dynasty, the Double Ninth Festival officially became a festival. Reading (senior)