The Choyo Festival
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"Choyo" The Double Ninth Festival

September 9 is known as "Choyo ", literally double yang.
Choyo is one of "Gosekku" , the five seasonal festivals in JapanA
and also called as "Kiku no sekku ", Chrysanthemum Festival.

People used to decorate chrysanthemum
and drink sake floating the petal of chrysanthemum
to celebrate wishing the long life.