What does Double Ninth Festival mean?

The significance of the Double Ninth Festival is to place people's blessings on the health and longevity of the elderly. In the historical development and evolution, the Double Ninth Festival is a mixture of various folk customs, bearing rich cultural connotations. 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" and "long" are homophonic, it is endowed with the meaning of immortality and people's wishes for the health and longevity of the elderly.

The custom of Double Ninth Festival

The custom of the Double Ninth Festival includes climbing mountains, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine and inserting dogwood. Double Ninth Festival, also known as Mountaineering Festival, has the custom of climbing mountains. It is said that appreciating chrysanthemum and drinking chrysanthemum wine originated from Tao Yuanming, a great poet in Jin Dynasty. The ancients thought that inserting Evodia rutaecarpa on the Double Ninth Festival could take refuge and eliminate disasters.

The origin of Double Ninth Festival

The name of the Double Ninth Festival was recorded in the Three Kingdoms period. According to Cao Pi's Nine-Day Book and Zhong Yi's Nine-Day Book, the month of the year arrives, and then September 9th comes again. Nine is the number of yang, and the sun and the moon should be in harmony, which is a well-known custom, so it is necessary to feast for a long time.

In the Book of Changes, "six" is defined as yin number, and "nine" is defined as yang number. On September 9, the sun and the moon combined with the sun, and the two forces were nine times heavy, which was called Chongyang, also known as the heavy movement nine. The Double Ninth Festival was formed as early as the Warring States Period. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the atmosphere of the Double Ninth Festival has become increasingly rich, and scholars of all dynasties have chanted it. It was officially designated as a folk festival in the Tang Dynasty and has been in use ever since.

Meteorological proverbs of Double Ninth Festival

1, Chongyang sunny, sunny in winter; Double Ninth Festival, a winter of ice.

This is a law discovered by the ancients many years later, which can be explained by modern science: in late autumn, the cold air in the north goes south, and the cold high pressure controls a large area. If it doesn't rain on the Double Ninth Festival, it means that the intensity of cold and high pressure is too large, which is not conducive to rainfall and is easy to form a dry climate phenomenon.

2. After eating Chongyang cake, the summer clothes will be packed.

After the Double Ninth Festival, the weather is getting colder and colder, and summer clothes can't be worn, so pack them up and put them away! So those friends who love beauty should pay attention, it's time to wear long pants and stockings! !

3. After eating the Double Ninth Festival meal, there is no single-clothed person.

The annual Double Ninth Festival is almost always around "cold dew" and "first frost". The warm air is gradually weakening, and the cold air in the north is moving into China. There are always several rains in autumn every year. Autumn rain and autumn wind will bring cooling, and the temperature will gradually drop, resulting in the phenomenon of "eating double ninth festival rice and not seeing people who are single-clothed".

4. Goose doesn't celebrate September 9th.

Every year, geese go to the south for the winter. As migratory birds, they have a very keen biological clock. If you are lucky enough to climb the mountain these two days, you should be able to see geese flying south.