Todays Chongyang ｜ is better than the spring light

Jiujiu Double Ninth Festival

Enjoy chrysanthemums and have fun

Jiujiu Double Ninth Festival, Jiujiu Double Ninth Festival,

Long and long.

Multi layer flower cake goes step by step,

Feitian Zhiyuan presents good luck.

-- Year old in Renyin · Chongyang Festival

Chongyang Festival

Chongyang Festival, weighing nine festivals and basking in the autumn festival. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year, together with the New Year's Eve, the Qingming Festival and the Zhongyuan Festival, are collectively referred to as the four traditional Chinese festivals for ancestor worship. It was formed as early as the Warring States Period, and was officially designated as a folk festival in the Tang Dynasty, which has been followed by all dynasties since then.

Author: Hao Hongxian

Tracing the Origin of the Festival

The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional Chinese festival that combines a variety of folk customs in the process of history. The celebration of the Double Ninth Festival generally includes activities such as sightseeing, climbing to a high place, watching chrysanthemums, picking Chinese herbal medicine, holding a dinner for the elderly, eating Double Ninth Cake, medicinal liquor for health preservation, and drinking chrysanthemum wine.

Ancestor worship festival

Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Tomb Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, and half of July are traditional Chinese ancestor worship festivals. Ancestor worship is a major theme of major festivals. Ancient China belongs to the farming society and agricultural civilization, which is a form of civilization that attaches great importance to the experience of ancestors. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has had the concept of etiquette and custom of respecting ancestors and following their ancestors cautiously, and the custom of sacrificing ancestors on holidays to show filial piety and never forget the root.

Climbing Festival

The ancient folk have the custom of climbing high on the Double Ninth Festival, so the Double Ninth Festival is also called "Climbing Festival". Chongyang is the season of "rising pure gas and sinking turbid gas". The higher the terrain is, the more pure gas will gather. Therefore, "climbing high in Chongyang to enjoy the pure gas" has become a folk matter. In the golden autumn of September, the sky is high and the air is cool. Climbing high in this season can achieve the goal of being relaxed, happy, healthy and disease free.

Respecting the Elderly Day

In modern times, the ninth day of September has been given a new meaning to the Respecting the Elderly Day. Because "nine" is the largest number in the number, nine is a long-term homophonic sound, so "nine on nine" and "nine on nine" double yang "contain a long, long and noble metaphor in it. In the folk concept, because "nine" is the largest number in the number, and "nine nine" is synonymous with "long", it has the meaning of everlasting, long life, health and longevity.

Folk activities

basking in the autumn

The Double Ninth Festival is the best time to enjoy the autumn. Some mountain villages in southern China still retain the feature of "basking in the autumn", which is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon. For example, in the mountainous areas of Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui, Jiangxi and other places, due to the complex terrain and few flat land in villages, villagers had to use the front and back of their houses and their windowsill roofs to dry and hang crops, which evolved into a traditional agricultural phenomenon over time. This special life style and scene of villagers drying crops has gradually become the material for painters and photographers to pursue and create, and has shaped a poetic title of "drying autumn".

Ciqing

The ancients took Chongyang and Qingming as the corresponding Spring and Autumn Festival. If the Qingming Festival is a festival for people to go out for a leisurely trip after a long winter, then the Double Ninth Festival is about to be a ceremonial autumn trip when people are about to live in seclusion in the new cold of autumn. Therefore, people have the custom of "outing" on the Qingming Festival and "farewell" on the Double Ninth Festival.

Wearing cornel

In ancient times, it was also popular to insert cornel at the ninth hour, so it was also called the Cornel Festival. Cornus officinalis is a kind of fruit that can be used as traditional Chinese medicine. The ancients believed that on the Double Ninth Festival, climbing the mountain and planting cornel could drive away insects, dampness and evil wind. So he put the dogwood on his arm or put it in a sachet, or put it in his head. Cornus officinalis can be used as medicine to make wine for health and disease elimination. Fructus corni and chrysanthemum hairpin were already common in the Tang Dynasty. Cornus officinalis has a strong fragrance, which can improve eyesight, refresh the mind, dispel fire, expel insects, remove dampness, and expel wind evil. It can also eliminate food accumulation and cure cold and heat. People use natural medicines such as cornel to adjust their physical health and make them adapt to natural climate changes.

Appreciation of Poems

A Tour of Xuanwu Mountain on September 9

(Tang Dynasty) Lu Zhaolin

Overlooking the mountains and rivers on September 9, looking back at the wind and smoke.

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Memories of Shandong Brothers on September 9

(Tang Dynasty) Wang Wei

is a stranger in a foreign land alone, and he misses his relatives every holiday.

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Climbing the High

(Tang Dynasty) Du Fu

The wind is strong and the apes are howling in the sky. The birds fly back from the clear sand on the banks.

The endless trees are falling and the Yangtze River is rolling.

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Drunken Flower Yin

(Song Dynasty) Li Qingzhao

The mist and thick clouds worry about the day forever, and the auspicious brain eliminates the golden beast. It is again time for the lovely double-ninth festival. the coolness of midnight penetrates my screen of sheer silk and chills my pillow of jade.

After Dongli drinks wine in the evening, there is a subtle fragrance. Don't forget, the curtain rolls the west wind, and people are thinner than yellow flowers.

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Editor: Ma Chenqi