What festival is the Double Ninth Festival?

Double Ninth Festival is a festival to worship ancestors, climb mountains and respect the elderly. The customs of the Double Ninth Festival are: enjoying dogwood, chrysanthemum and climbing mountains.

Double Ninth Festival is an important traditional festival in China, which has been established as a legal holiday. In fact, the Double Ninth Festival has a long history in China. So what is the Double Ninth Festival? Let's get to know each other.

Details 0 1 ancestor worship festival

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. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has the concept of courtesy and respect for ancestors, and has the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors on holidays to show filial piety and not forget their roots.

02 climbing festival

In ancient times, there was the custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival, so it was also called "Climbing Festival". The climbing custom of Chongyang originated from the climate characteristics at this time and the worship of mountains by the ancients. Climbing is also a solar term originated from nature, and climbing on the Double Ninth Festival corresponds to the spring outing of ancient people in spring and March.

03 respect for the elderly day

In modern times, the ninth day of September has been given a new meaning of respecting the elderly. Because "nine" is the largest number in numbers, and nine is an enduring homonym, so nine goes up to nine and nine goes up to nine, which contains a long, long and noble metaphor. In the folk concept, because "nine" is the largest number, and "nine nine" and "long" are homophonic, it is endowed with the meaning of immortality, longevity, health and longevity.

The origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to ancient times. According to legend, Chongyang is the day of enlightenment in Yuan Di. The existing written records about the activities of the Double Ninth Festival can be found 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 a day, great emperor, and I'm going to tell the son of heaven.

The custom of Chongyang was popular in the Han Dynasty, which was a period of economic and cultural exchanges and integration between the north and the south of China. Cultural exchanges in various places made the custom spread. The Han Dynasty work Miscellanies of Xijing contains the ancient custom of seeking longevity on the Double Ninth Festival. 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." This is the earliest record of the custom of seeking longevity on the Double Ninth Festival in written materials.