What festival is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, and what folk activities are there?

The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Double Ninth Festival, and there are customs of climbing mountains, offering sacrifices to ancestors, inserting dogwoods and eating double ninth cakes.

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. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the custom of "climbing to pray for blessings" was popular.

There is no uniform regulation on the place of climbing, and the place of climbing is generally divided into mountain climbing, building climbing or platform climbing. The custom of climbing mountains originated from the ancient mountains, the climate of "clear air rising and turbid air sinking" and the absurd legend of "climbing mountains to avoid disasters"

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Double ninth festival custom

Guangzhou celebrates the Double Ninth Festival, and people climb Baiyun Mountain to enjoy autumn fitness. Wuchuan Double Ninth Festival, a high-standard banquet, a banquet to respect the elderly. In Huaiji County, Chongyang is regarded as the moment of Yuan Di's enlightenment. Men, women and children all came out of the city, and they all used cannons to compete with God. Even on the Double Ninth Festival in Sichuan, boys and girls gather outside the city to sing songs for the citizens to watch. On the Double Ninth Festival in Yangjiang City, a paper kite with a rattan bow on it is very loud in mid-air.

People in northern Changyi, Shandong eat spicy radish soup on the Double Ninth Festival. There is a proverb: "After drinking radish soup, the whole family is not bitter." Juancheng people call the Double Ninth Festival the birthday of the God of Wealth, and every household bakes cakes to offer sacrifices to the God of Wealth. Zou Ping offered a sacrifice to Fan Zhongyan in Chongyang. In the old days, dyeing houses and wineries also paid homage to the god of tanks on September 9. Tengzhou's daughter, who has been married for less than three years, avoids going back to her parents' home for the holidays. There is a saying that "if you go home to Chongyang, you will kill your mother-in-law."

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