Double Ninth Festival, also known as the Jiuji Festival, the ninth day of the lunar calendar, is the traditional Double Ninth Festival in my country. The ancients believed that the number "nine" is Laoyang, and the ninth day of the lunar calendar is the so-called "two nines are heavy", so it is called "Double Ninth Festival", also called " Chongji ", which is the Autumn Festival and "stage autumn", which is the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, a traditional Chinese festival. Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes going out to enjoy the autumn, climbing high to see the distance, watching chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods, eating Double Ninth Festival cake , and drinking chrysanthemum wine . Double Ninth Festival was formed as early as the Warring States Period. It was officially designated as a folk festival in the Tang Dynasty. Since then, it has been passed down through all dynasties. The "spring" on the third day of the March 3rd are both family members coming out. On this day, all relatives must climb high and avoid disasters together.
Do you know all about Double Ninth Festival customs?
Admiring autumn
Double Ninth Festival is the best time to enjoy autumn. There are also some mountainous villages in southern China that retain the characteristics of "Shang Autumn ". Going to the countryside to appreciate folk customs and watch autumn sunshine has become a fashion of rural tourism. "Sunning autumn" is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon with strong regional characteristics.
Climbing the heights
0First of the Double Ninth Festival is the custom of climbing the heights. In September of the golden autumn, the sky is high and the air is cool. This season, you can achieve the purpose of relaxing and relaxing, fitness and curing diseases.
The wind is strong and the sky is high and the apes are roaring, and the sand is clear and the birds fly back.
The endless fallen trees are rustling down, and the endless Yangtze River is rolling.
million miles of sad autumn is always a guest, and has been on stage for more than a century of illness.
Tough and bitter regrets, frosty hair, and a new wine glass is stopped.
Chrysanthemums
On the Double Ninth Festival, there has always been a custom of appreciating chrysanthemums, so it has also been called Chrysanthemum Festival since ancient times. The ninth month of the lunar calendar is commonly known as the chrysanthemum moon. A chrysanthemum conference is held on the festival, and a crowd of people come to enjoy the chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemum, also known as yellow flower, belongs to the Asteraceae family, with a wide variety of varieties. Our country is the hometown of chrysanthemums, and chrysanthemums have been widely cultivated since ancient times. Chrysanthemum is a flower of longevity, and it is also a symbol of unyielding frost for literary people. Therefore, people love and praise it, so large-scale chrysanthemum exhibitions are often held.
Putting paper cranes
Putting paper kids is the main custom of Huizhou celebrating the Double Ninth Festival. Huizhou folk celebrating the Double Ninth Festival is mainly characterized by putting paper kids. Paper Harrier is also a kite now. Kite is the title after 5th . Before the Five Dynasties, the north was commonly called " paper kite ", and in the south, it is mostly called "Kite". The title of "Paper Harrier" in Huizhou is obviously retaining the ancient name from the Five Dynasties and has the flavor of "mixed north and south".
Eat Chongyang Cake
Chongyang Cake is also known as flower cake , chrysanthemum cake , and five-color cake. There is no fixed method to make it, and it is relatively casual, including "rough flower cake", "fine flower cake" and "money flower cake". There is still no fixed variety of Chongyang cakes today, and the soft cakes eaten in various places during the Chongyang Festival are called Chongyang cakes.
Insert dogwood
Another ceremony on Double Ninth Festival is to insert dogwood on your head. Cornus is a Chinese herbal medicine that has the same disinfection effect as mugwort and is also of camouflage. It emphasizes that the whole family avoids it, and counts whether a person is left behind, and the person who is left behind will be captured by the plague god. In addition to wearing dogwood, people also wear chrysanthemums.
In addition to the Double Ninth Festival customs mentioned above, the taboos of Double Ninth Festival should also be known: Remember to meet with others and say: Happy holidays.
Double Ninth Festival, together with New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival and Double Ninth Festival, are the four major festivals for worshiping ancestors in traditional Chinese festivals.
