What are the customs of the Double Ninth Festival? What are the folk customs of Double Ninth Festival?

September Double Ninth Festival, also known as Double Ninth Festival, is a festival to commemorate ancestors and sweep graves. Double Ninth Festival, also known as Mountaineering Festival, Double Ninth Festival, September 9th, Cornus officinalis Festival, Chrysanthemum Festival, etc. Today is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. Customs include climbing mountains, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine, enjoying dogwood and eating Chongyang cake. Next, I will introduce it in detail.

1. The Double Ninth Festival is the best time for chrysanthemums to bloom, and it is also a good time to enjoy chrysanthemums, from which you can feel the beauty of life. Perhaps the ancients just liked this tranquility, and modern life was impetuous, so people followed the example of Tao Yuanming, Shu Ren of Jin Dynasty, and lived in seclusion with chrysanthemums, and the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums spread to the world from this moment.

2. Climbing the Double Ninth Festival is not only a good time for chrysanthemums to open, but also a crisp autumn, which is most suitable for climbing and overlooking. Since ancient times, there has been a folk tradition of climbing mountains on the Double Ninth Festival, so it is also called "Mountaineering Festival". There are also many mountaineering poems written by scholars in the Tang Dynasty, and Wang Wei's "Shanju Holiday Thinking of Shandong Brothers" is one of them.

3. Evodia rutaecarpa has a strong fragrance in Cornus officinalis, which can repel insects. The ancients believed that Evodia rutaecarpa could get rid of diseases and strengthen the body on the Double Ninth Festival. Many people will climb mountains to gather dogwood on the Double Ninth Festival, insert dogwood in front of the door, or simply make it into sachets and wear it on their bodies.

Drinking Chrysanthemum Wine The Double Ninth Festival has a long history and cultural accumulation in China. China has a custom of appreciating chrysanthemums since ancient times, so the Double Ninth Festival is also called Chrysanthemum Festival. The edible value of chrysanthemum is very high, and many people will brew chrysanthemum into wine to make sweet and delicious chrysanthemum wine. It is also unique to entertain guests with homemade chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival.

5, eat Chongyang cake Chongyang cake is also called flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, five-color cake, there is no fixed shape in appearance, can be changed at will, broadly speaking, soft cakes eaten everywhere can be called Chongyang cake. 1, the exquisite Chongyang cake should be made into nine layers, like a pagoda with two lambs on it, which conforms to the meaning of Chongyang (sheep). 2. Some people will put red flags made of paper on the Chongyang cake and light candles to show prosperity, excitement and celebration.

The above is my understanding of the traditional customs of the Double Ninth Festival. What else do you know, my friend?