October 25 this year is the Double Ninth Festival . Now the Double Ninth Festival is a festival for respecting the elderly. In ancient times, Double Ninth Festival was a major festival. So what are the origins and legends of Double Ninth Festival? Let’s take a look together below.
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Introduction to Double Ninth Festival
lunar September 9th , which is the traditional Double Ninth Festival. Because in the ancient " Yijing ", "six" is defined as yin number and "nine" is defined as yang number. On the ninth day of the nine months, the sun and the moon are yang, and the two nines are mixed together, so it is called Chongyang, also called Chongjiu. The ancients believed that it was auspicious day worth celebrating, and this festival started to celebrate very early.
The activities to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival are colorful and romantic, generally including going out to enjoy the scenery, climbing high to see the distance, watching chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods, eating Double Ninth Cake , and drinking chrysanthemum wine .
Double Ninth Festival is homophonic with "Jiujiu", and nine is the largest number among the numbers, which has the meaning of longevity and longevity. Moreover, autumn is also the golden season for harvest in the year. The Double Ninth Festival has profound meanings. People have always had special feelings for this festival. There are many excellent works of poetry congratulations on Double Ninth Festival and chrysanthemums in Tang and Song lyrics.
Today's Double Ninth Festival was given a new meaning. In 1989, my country designated September 9th of each year as Elderly Day . Traditional and modernity cleverly combined to become a festival for the elderly who respect, respect, love and help the elderly. Institutions, groups and streets across the country often organize elderly people who have retired from their jobs to enjoy the scenery at this time, or enjoy the water, or climb a mountain to strengthen their bodies and minds, so that their bodies and minds can be bathed in the arms of nature; many families will also support the elderly to go to the suburbs to perform or prepare some delicious food for the elderly.
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The origin of Double Ninth Festival
Double Ninth Festival was mentioned as early as the "Chu Ci" during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan's "Distance Travel" reads: "I gathered in the Double Ninth Festival and entered the imperial palace, and started to build the Qing capital." The "Double Ninth Festival" here refers to the sky, not the festival. In the Three Kingdoms period, Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi's "Nine Days and Zhong Yao's Book", the banquet for the Double Ninth Festival has been clearly written: "The years have passed, and the nineth day of the month is suddenly reappearing. Nine is the number of yang, and the sun and the moon are both in response. It is common to praise its name, thinking that it is suitable for long-term, so it is for a high meeting."
Jin Dynasty literati Tao Yuanming In the preface to the poem "Nine Days Leisure": "I live in leisurely and love to pay attention to the name of nine. The autumn chrysanthemums are in the garden, but I hold the wine without any reason, I am wearing Jiuhua, and sending my thoughts in my heart." Here we mention chrysanthemums and wine. Around the Wei and Jin Dynasties, drinking alcohol and to appreciate chrysanthemums and on the Double Ninth Festival were already done. In the Tang Dynasty, Double Ninth Festival was officially designated as a folk festival.
By the Ming Dynasty, on September Double Ninth, the palace would eat flower cakes together to celebrate, and the emperor would go to Wansui Mountain to climb high and cheer up to cheer up the autumn aspirations. This custom has been passed down to the Qing Dynasty.
Legend of Double Ninth Festival
Like most traditional festivals, Double Ninth Festival also has ancient legends.
According to legend, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a plague demon in Ruhe. As soon as it appeared, people in every family fell ill and died every day. The people in this area were ravaged by the plague demon.
A plague took away the young man Hengjing's parents, and he almost died due to illness. After recovering from his illness, he bid farewell to his beloved wife and fellow villagers, and decided to go out to visit immortals and learn arts, and eliminate plagues for the people. Hengjing visited the masters everywhere and visited famous mountains and masters all over the world. Finally, he found out that there was the oldest mountain in the east. There was an immortal with endless magic power on the mountain. Hengjing was not afraid of hardships and the distance of the road. Under the guidance of the immortal crane, he finally found the mountain and found the immortal with magic power. The immortal was moved by his spirit and finally took in Hengjing, taught him the sword technique of subduing demons, and gave him a sword of subduing demons. Heng Jing practiced hard day and night, and finally developed an extraordinary martial arts.
This heavenly immortal called Hengjing to the front and said, "Tomorrow is , the ninth day of the ninth month, and the plague demon is going to come out to do evil again. You have learned your skills and should go back to eliminate harm for the people." Xianchang gave Hengjing a pack of dogwood leaves and a cup of chrysanthemum wine. He also secretly taught the use of warding off evil spirits, so that Hengjing would ride a crane to rush home.
Hengjing returned to his hometown and on the morning of the ninth day of the ninth month, he led the villagers to a nearby mountain according to the instructions of the immortals, and gave each person a piece of dogwood leaves and a cup of chrysanthemum wine, ready to subdue demons. At noon, with a few strange screams, the plague demon rushed out of Ru River, but as soon as the plague demon pounced at the foot of the mountain, he suddenly smelled the strange fragrance of dogwood and chrysanthemum wine, and stopped abruptly, his face suddenly changed. At this time, Hengjing chased down the mountain with the sword of the demon subduing sword, and stabbed Wen Demon to death in a few rounds. From then on, the custom of climbing high to avoid the epidemic on the ninth day of the ninth month was passed down year after year. Wu Jun, a native of Liang, once recorded this in his book "The Record of the Continuation of Qixie".
Later, people regarded the custom of climbing high on the Double Ninth Festival as an activity to avoid disasters and avoid disasters. In addition, in the traditional concept of people in the Central Plains, Double Nine still means long-lasting life and health and longevity, so the Double Ninth Festival was later established as the Elderly Day.
Source: Minnan.com Comprehensive China.com
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