What can I do to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival?

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What does the Double Ninth Festival celebrate?

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What can I do to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival?

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What does the Double Ninth Festival celebrate?

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The Double Ninth Festival is on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, and the sun and the moon meet on the ninth day, so it is called the Double Ninth Festival. The Book of Changes takes nine as the number of yang, and two yang are important, hence the name "Chongyang". The ancients thought this day was an auspicious day to celebrate.

Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes activities such as traveling to enjoy autumn, climbing high and looking far, watching chrysanthemums, planting dogwood all over, eating double ninth cake and drinking chrysanthemum wine.

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Can I sweep graves on the Double Ninth Festival? Yes

Some areas have the custom of sweeping graves on the Double Ninth Festival.

Sweeping graves in Chongyang conforms to the reality in mountainous areas and is of great benefit. Because most of the tombs in mountainous areas are located on the side of mountains and ridges, the surrounding areas are basically covered with vegetation. It rains a lot during the Qingming Festival, making it inconvenient to walk. It is inevitable that clothes will get wet when climbing mountains and sweeping graves. Chongyang is different. It's autumn when the air is crisp and there is little rain. At this time, sweeping the grave is not only convenient for travel, but also allows you to climb the mountains and enjoy the beautiful scenery around.

In some years, the Double Ninth Festival is generally close to the National Day, so it is easy for people who go out to work to arrange time to go back to their hometown and visit their ancestors with relatives.

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The Double Ninth Festival was formed as early as the Warring States Period and was officially designated as a folk festival in the Tang Dynasty. In the past, it was a custom for all relatives to climb mountains together, which could ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters. Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Orchid Festival are the four traditional festivals for ancestor worship in China, and grave-sweeping on Double Ninth Festival is closely related to ancestor worship.

Today, in Tonglu, Zhejiang, Puxian, Fujian, Taiwan Province Province, overseas countries and many other places, people still "prepare pigs and sheep for their ancestors" on September 9th, which is called Mid-Autumn Festival. Nowadays, descendants of Confucius in the Pearl River Delta go to Feng Ming Tomb in Baiyun District every year to worship their ancestors, that is, to pass on the ancient customs to their families.