Visitors enjoy chrysanthemums in full bloom exhibited in a park in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province October 16, 2007. Appreciation of chrysanthemums is one of the customs of the Chinese Chong Yang Festival (Double Ninth Festival) which falls on the ninth day of the ninth month according to the Chinese lunar calendar, or October 19 this year.

Visitors enjoy chrysanthemums in full bloom exhibited in a park in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province October 16, 2007. Appreciation of chrysanthemums is one of the customs of the Chinese Chong Yang Festival (Double Ninth Festival) which falls on the ninth day of the ninth month according to the Chinese lunar calendar, or October 19 this year.

Vistors enjoy chrysanthemums in full bloom exhibited in the Humble Administrator's Garden (Zhuozhengyuan) in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province October 16, 2007. Appreciation of chrysanthemums is one of the customs of the Chinese Chong Yang Festival (Double Ninth Festival) which falls on the ninth day of the ninth month according to the Chinese lunar calendar, or October 19 this year.

(Xinhua News Agency October 18, 2007)