What is the origin of the Double Ninth Festival?

1. The origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. There are existing written records about the activities of the Double Ninth Festival, which was first seen in Lu Chunqiu Qiu Ji Ji: "In September, order the family to slaughter, prepare for farming, and introduce five essentials. The Tibetan emperor's book is collected in the holy warehouse, and it is only respectful. It's the day, great emperor, and I'll taste the sacrifice and tell the son of heaven. " It can be seen that there was an activity of offering sacrifices to God and ancestors at the harvest time in September to thank them for their kindness. This is the primitive form of the ancient Double Ninth Festival as a sacrificial activity.

The early Chongyang culture embodies the humanistic spirit of ancestors advocating nature and the unity of man and nature. A series of sacrificial activities in Chongyang contain profound cultural connotations of ritual and music civilization.

Jia, a courtier who recorded the Western Han Dynasty in Miscellanies of Xijing, said: "On September 9, Pei Yun ate the bait and drank chrysanthemum wine, and Yun Chang made life long." According to legend, since then, there has been the custom of seeking longevity on the Double Ninth Festival. This is influenced by the ancient wizards (later Taoist priests) who pursued immortality and collected drugs to take. The Chronicle of Jingchu Age said: "On September 9th, four people got together for a picnic." Duke Du of Sui wrote: "I don't know when the banquet on September 9 started, and it hasn't changed since I was stationed in the Song Dynasty." Longevity and feast form the basis of the Double Ninth Festival. In fact, the large-scale banquet activities of the Double Ninth Festival developed from the harvest celebrations and sacrificial banquets in the pre-Qin period.

On the day of the Double Ninth Festival, all localities should organize the elderly to go for an autumn outing, exchange feelings and exercise. The younger generation of many families will also help the elderly to go to the suburbs. According to the law of the movement of the heavens, the earth, the sun and the moon, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is a climate of "clearing the air, raising the turbidity and sinking the air". The higher the terrain, the more high-definition air is gathered, so "Double Ninth Festival, climbing high and enjoying the cool" has become an important folk custom. Autumn in September, the sky is crisp, this season, climbing high and looking far can achieve the purpose of refreshing, fitness and recuperation.

Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival in China, which combines various folk customs. Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and looking far, enjoying chrysanthemums, planting dogwood all over the place, eating double ninth cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities.

Extended data:

The origin of traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrifices, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. Most of the traditional festivals in ancient times were formed in the activities of the ancients who chose auspicious day sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth and the ancestors for their kindness. The Double Ninth Festival has a long history, starting from ancient times. In ancient times, the customs of the north and the south were different. Before the Spring and Autumn Period, the customs and activities of various places had not been integrated and circulated, and the customs and activities of the Double Ninth Festival were rarely recorded in the Central Plains literature.

The existing written records about the custom of the Double Ninth Festival were first found in the pre-Qin classic "Qiu Ji Ji Lu Chunqiu", which recorded the ancient people's activities of offering sacrifices to the Heavenly Emperor and ancestors in September. In the process of historical continuation, the Double Ninth Festival has integrated a variety of folk customs. With the development of the times, the cultural connotation of the Double Ninth Festival has been continuously extended and enriched.

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