This coming Monday (30 October, 2006) is the ninth day of the ninth month in the Chinese calendar. In other words, Chung Yeung Festival -- another public holiday.
As this will be a long weekend, a little island in the South China Sea will be overrun with visitors from Hong Kong and Kowloon who are either (a) paying their respects to the dead and visiting the local cemeteries to give their ancestors' graves a clean, or (b) people just taking a break from life in the great metropolis.
Can't say I blame them, if Mister B lived in that high-density environment he'd come over here, too.
The chrysanthemum? It's traditional at Chung Yeung to drink chrysanthemum tea. That, or an infusion made from the flowering Chinese dogwood (zhuyu) bush.
Anyway, happy holiday to one and all!
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