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Can't you live in your mother's house on Chongyang Festival?

Depending on the region, there are places where it is taboo to go back to your mother's house on the Day of the Dragon, and places where there is no such taboo, but sometimes the customs can't be helped.

If you don't have this taboo you can go back to your mother's house and help the old man to do his job and do some filial piety. The festival is a festival for the elderly, and going back to your mother's home to visit can comfort your parents in their old age. But the custom in some places is that you can't go back to your mother's home on Chongyang. On Chongyang Day, it is taboo for daughters married less than three years to go back to their mother's home, otherwise it will bring disaster to the mother-in-law. There is a saying: go home for Chung Yeung, death of her mother-in-law.

Extended information:

The Chongyang Festival, the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, is a traditional Chinese festival. "Chongyang" is also called "heavy nine", because the "I Ching" in the "nine" as the number of Yang, September 9, two nine heavy, so it is called "Chongyang". "The ancient people believed that Chung Yeung was an auspicious day to celebrate. Celebrating the Chongyang Festival generally includes activities such as going out to enjoy autumn, climbing up to a high altitude, viewing chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods all over the place, eating chrysanthemum cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine, etc. The festival is also known as the "Chrysanthemum Festival".

The Chongyang Festival, as early as the Warring States period has been formed, since the Wei and Jin Dynasties due to the atmosphere of the Chongyang increasingly rich times by the literati and ink writers, to the Tang Dynasty was officially designated as a folk festival, and since then has been inherited by successive dynasties to the present. Chrysanthemum and the first three days of March, "Treading Spring" is the family out of the room, Chrysanthemum on this day, all the relatives have to climb together to "avoid disaster".

In 1989, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month was designated as the Day of the Elderly, advocating that the whole society set up a respect for the elderly, respect for the elderly, love for the elderly, help the elderly. 2006 May 20, Chongyang Festival was included in the State Council in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.