What is the Double Ninth Festival for?

The Double Ninth Festival is a festival for respecting the elderly and offering sacrifices. In the historical development and evolution, the Double Ninth Festival is a mixture of various folk customs, bearing rich cultural connotations. In the folk concept, "nine" is the largest number, which means longevity, and it places people's wishes for the health and longevity of the elderly.

Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and July 30th are all traditional festivals in China, and ancestor worship is a major theme of major festivals. China was a farming society and agricultural civilization in ancient times, and attached great importance to the experience of ancestors.

Historical evolution of Double Ninth Festival.

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.