How to Hand-make Double Ninth Festival greeting cards

Pick out your favorite colored cards, then fold them into rectangles, cut a love pattern from the middle, write your own greetings on the cut love, then paste the love card on the innermost layer of the greeting card, draw a beautiful pattern on the card cover, and write the words Happy Double Ninth Festival on it, so that our double ninth festival card is completed.

Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival in China, which is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. The number of "Nine" is a positive number in the Book of Changes, and the two positive numbers of "Nine Nine" are heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; It is also called "Double Ninth Festival", because both the date and the month conform to nine.

Returning to the truth of 1999, the ancients thought that 1999 Chongyang was an auspicious day. In ancient times, there were folk customs such as climbing mountains to pray, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwood, offering sacrifices to ancestors and holding banquets to pray for longevity. So far, it has added the connotation of respecting the elderly, feasting on the day of Chongyang, and being grateful for respecting the elderly.

Climbing mountains and enjoying autumn and giving thanks and respecting the elderly are two important themes of today's Double Ninth Festival. 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. On May 20th, 2006, the Double Ninth Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.