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Elders celebrate Chongyang Festival around China

2013-10-11 10:04:34

(Xinhuanet.com)

 

Xing Yeshi (L), 116 years old, poses for a photo with the wife of her grandson Hua Yuling in Xuzhou, east China's Jiangsu province, Oct. 10, 2013. The Double Ninth Festival, or Chongyang Festival, the first legal Chinese festival for the elders, falls on Oct. 13. [Xinhua/Yong Jun]

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