On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, what has become a custom handed down from generation to generation?

On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, climbing mountains, offering sacrifices to ancestors, inserting dogwood and eating Chongyang cake have become customs handed down from generation to generation.

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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The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents, and contains profound cultural connotations of respecting morality, etiquette and music civilization. Double Ninth Festival has a long history. In ancient times, there were different customs in the north and the south. In the pre-Qin period, local customs had not been integrated and circulated, and the activities of the Double Ninth Festival were rarely recorded in writing.

The existing written records about the custom of the Double Ninth Festival were first found in Lu Chunqiu Qiu Ji Ji, which recorded the ancient people's activities of offering sacrifices to the Heaven Emperor and ancestors in September. According to research, the origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to ancient times, and there are ritual activities to worship gods and ancestors in autumn and season.