Handbills on the Chongyang Festival simple and good-looking

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Chinese New Year's Day, the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the two nine overlap, known as the "heavy nine", the folk in the day there is the custom of ascending the heights of the day, so the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Festival of the heights of the day". There are also heavy nine festival, dogwood, chrysanthemum festival and other sayings. As the ninth day of September "nine nine" harmonic is "long time", there is a long meaning, so often in this day ancestor worship and the implementation of activities to honor the elderly. The Chongyang Festival, along with the Bok, Ching and Yu festivals, is also one of the four major traditional Chinese festivals for ancestor worship, and on December 28, 2012, the law made it clear that the ninth day of the ninth month of the Chinese lunar calendar is the festival of the elderly every year.

Customs of Chongyang Festival

Appreciation of chrysanthemums. Chrysanthemums have a deep relationship with the Chongyang Festival, which is also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival, so, in the two Chongyang, chrysanthemum viewing becomes one of the primary customs.

Denggao. This is what we know from ancient poems, therefore, Chongyang is also known as the Festival of Ascending Heights, and people do not only climb the heights, but also enjoy the wildflowers on the mountains, and drink wine and eat meat.

Plugging dogwood. Chrysanthemum Festival has the custom of wearing dogwood, so Chrysanthemum is also known as "Cornus Festival". Cornus officinalis is an important symbol of the Chongyang Festival. Cornus officinalis is also known as the "evil weng", and ancient people believed that wearing cornelian cherry could ward off evil spirits and disasters.

Paper harriers. This is the main custom of Huizhou Chongyang Festival. Huizhou folk over the Chongyang Festival is to put the paper harrier as the main feature. There are some places in China that also have the custom of releasing paper kites.

Eating Chongyang cake. Chongyang food style, in addition to drinking cornelian cherry, eat chrysanthemum food, and one of the most famous is to eat cake. Of course, this is in the north, the eating of cakes is especially prevalent.

Drinking chrysanthemum wine. Because the chrysanthemum is known as the flower of longevity, the custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine has arisen on the day of the Chrysanthemum Festival.

Taboos of Chongyang Festival

Nine is the largest number among the numbers, so it is said that this day is also a very bad day. According to the Chinese tradition of "turning bad luck into good luck", it is reasonable to believe that the festive appearance of the festival is to complete the change from bad luck to good luck on the odd day of the odd month, and a series of festive activities are set up in order to suppress the bad luck and overcome the bad luck. So on this day of warding off evil, it's not appropriate to say Happy Holidays, but rather good health or peace for your family.

There are a lot of people who know the place where the brothers climbed to the top of the mountain, and there are a lot of cornelian cherry blossoms and a lot of people who are not there.

The Ninth Day of Mount Qishan

(Tang) Du Mu

Jianghan Autumn Shadows of the geese first flew, and the guest carried the pot on the Cuiwei. It is difficult to meet the people of this world, but I have to put chrysanthemums on my head to return to them.

But I'm going to get drunk for the festivities, and I'm not going to climb up and hate the sunshine. The only thing I've ever done is to get my hands on a new one, and I'm not going to be able to do that.

The Nine Days

(Tang)Yang Heng

Yellow flowers and purple chrysanthemums fall along the hedges, picking chrysanthemums and pouring wine to love the new fragrance.

It is not easy to look at the countryside today, but I am forcibly inserting a cornelian cherry with the crowd.

Drunken Flower Shade

(Song) Li Qingzhao

The mist and thick clouds are worrying about the eternal day, and the Rui Brain pinned the golden beast.

The festive season is again the sun, the jade pillow and gauze cupboard, the midnight cool first penetration.

Don't worry, I'm not going to be able to get a good look at you, but I'm going to be able to get a good look at you.

There is no way that you can't lose your soul, the curtain rolls in the west wind, people are thinner than the yellow flowers!