Senior couples attend the "golden marriage" celebration launched by a company in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province to mark the Double Ninth Festival on October18. The festival, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth month on lunar calendar, is viewed as an occasion to pay respect to the aged.

An elderly woman fixes a button for her husband during the "golden marriage" celebration launched by a company in Luoyang, Henan Province to mark the Double Ninth Festival on October 18.

Senior couples tour Luoyang, Henan Province as part of the "golden marriage" celebration launched by a company in Luoyang, Henan Province to mark the Double Ninth Festival on October 18.

Senior citizens and young volunteers take a group photo after mountain climbing, to greet the Double Ninth Festival for the elderly in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, October 18.

(Xinhua News Agency, China Daily October 19, 2007)