Myths and legends of Double Ninth Festival

Myths and legends of Double Ninth Festival

The Double Ninth Festival on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is a traditional festival of the Han nationality. Do you know the stories and legends about the Double Ninth Festival? Let me show you next.

Legend of the Double Ninth Festival 1: According to the legend of the Dyed Cloth Cylinder God, a young couple fled their hometown because of the oppression of their brother and sister-in-law, and set up a thatched cottage in a reed pond to shelter from the wind and rain and make a living by growing grain locally. Their life is very difficult. One day, while they were working in the field, two men in rags suddenly came over. A man with heavy eyebrows and a tattered bag. Another man has a handsome face and a gourd hanging from his waist. He wants to beg for food. Without saying anything, the couple gave them two yellow-faced cage cakes to eat. They were hungry. The two happily ate and sang: "I have a grass that is dyed as blue as a treasure, and the color is not bad." Sprinkle a lot of grass while walking.

When winter goes and spring comes, a lot of grass grows here, and the hoe can't be taken down. The couple felt strange. My husband suddenly remembered that this grass was planted by two people last year, and what they sang was dyeable. Then the couple cut the grass and soaked it in two vats. The next day, the water in the vat turned blue, but it was not dyed. I thought it would be fooled. A few days later, a strong wind blew at night. Just after going to bed, someone knocked at the door and asked to borrow it for the night. The couple got up, opened the door, lit the oil lamp and saw that they had been begging for food last year. Seeing their pity, they left the guests, arranged for them to sleep on a vat, covered them with corn bran and straw, and made pillows under the grass with a bag of lime powder. The young couple are ready to go to bed.

The guest said I ordered today, and another said I still had wine in my gourd. Let's drink together, so I picked up the wine and drank it. Strangely, the wine in the gourd can't be finished, and everyone soon gets drunk. In the middle of the night, they had an alcohol attack, vomited all the food and wine they had eaten into the jar, and slipped the lime bag into the jar as a pillow. In the morning, they stirred it with wooden sticks, picked up the broken bags and gourds and ran away.

The next morning, the couple found it strange that the water in the jar turned yellow, so they dipped the white cloth in the jar for trial dyeing, and soon the cloth turned from yellow to blue after it was taken out. The husband caught up with the two men and asked, they said that this kind of grass is called blue grass, and it can be dyed with proper amount of lime and wine. Since then, the couple have opened a dyehouse, and their business has grown. Afterwards, they learned that these two people were Dyed Immortals-Mei Fu and Ge Hong. They teach the poor to dye and let people everywhere wear colorful blue cloth. The method of reducing indigo by grey wine fermentation invented by two immortals, Mei and Ge, has been widely told around the world, and later generations regard Mei and Ge as the ancestors of dyeing cloth. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong and other regions, the paper scraps of Mei and Ge Erxian are hung in the dyehouse.

In Hunan and Hubei, Mei and Ge Xianweng sacrifice in dyehouse on the ninth day of September every year. In addition to the paper covers of the two immortals of Mei Ge, Guanyin, the God of Wealth and the printed family paper code were also placed in the sacrifice. After the sacrifice, the sacrifices were mixed together, and the master and helpers in the dyehouse got together to have a big drink, wishing the "God of Dyeing Cloth Cylinder" to be with them and praying for "Dyeing Immortals".

Legend of the Double Ninth Festival Story 2: The story of Chongyang climbing the mountain Long ago, there was a young man named Huan Jing in runan county. He, his parents, his wife and his family are guarding several plots of land and living in peace. Who knows that something unexpected will happen, and a plague suddenly prevailed on both sides of the Ruhe River, killing many people. When Huan Jing was a child, he heard adults say that there was a plague demon living in Ruhe River, which came out every year to spread the plague and endanger the world. In order to kill the villagers, Huan Jing learned that there lived a fairy named Fei Changfang on the southeast mountain. He decided to learn from the teacher.

Huan Jing took a bag of dry food and set off. He walked all the way, inquired all the way, climbed over one mountain after another, waded over one river after another, worn out a pair of shoes, climbed over Qian Shan, and still couldn't find any trace of the immortal. One day, he suddenly saw a white dove standing in front of him and nodding to him. When Huan Jing approached, the pigeon flew two or three feet away and flew towards Huan Scenic Area after landing. In this way, Huan Jing followed the white dove and finally found the Xianju of Fei Changfang. Huan Jing walked to the door and knelt respectfully for two days and two nights. On the third day, the door opened, and a white-haired old man smiled and said to him, "I think you are a disciple because you are bent on eliminating pesticides for the people." He gave Huan Jing the dragon sword to subdue demons and taught him the martial arts to subdue demons. Huan Jing studied hard every day and finally practiced swordsmanship to perfection.

One day Huan Jing was practicing his sword, and Fei Changfang came up to him and said, "On September 9 this year, the plague god of Ruhe will come out to harm people again. Go back to your hometown and harm the people. I'll give you a pack of dogwood leaves and a bottle of chrysanthemum wine, so that the villagers can climb the mountain first to avoid disaster and then kill the demon. " . After that, he recruited a crane with his hand and carried the dreamland back to Runa.

Huan Jing returned to his hometown and told everyone what Fei Changfang said. On September 9, he took the whole village to a nearby mountain. Give everyone a dogwood leaf and pour out the chrysanthemum wine. Everyone takes a sip, saying that the plague can be avoided. After the arrangement, he returned to the village with the demon dragon sword, waiting to slay the plague god.

At noon, the wind roared in the Ruhe River. With several strange cries, athel Loren came out of the water and walked into the village with his head held high. He found no one in the village, so he looked around. Finally, he found the villagers hiding in the mountains, and he screamed and rushed to the mountains. Just arrived at the foot of the mountain, suddenly a strong smell of dogwood leaves and chrysanthemum alcohol came to my face, and the plague demon suddenly became dizzy and kept spinning and moaning. Huan Jing came straight from the village with a sword in his hand and fought the demon for several rounds. When the plague demon saw that the situation was not good, he turned and fled. Huan Jing shot the sword with a whoosh, and the sword flashed, and the plague demon was nailed to the ground in the blink of an eye.

Since then, there has been no plague on both sides of the Ruhe River. This day is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. Since then, on this day every year, people have held activities such as climbing mountains, inserting dogwoods and drinking chrysanthemum wine to commemorate Huanjing's efforts to eliminate plagues and pests for the people. Because the ninth day of September is the Double Ninth Festival, people call it "Double Ninth Festival".

Legend of Double Ninth Festival: Legend of Double Ninth Festival and Chrysanthemum Fairy Long ago, there lived a kind farmer named A Niu by the Grand Canal. A Niu's family is very poor. He lost his father at the age of seven and lived on his mother's textiles. A Niu's mother lost her husband when she was very young, and her life was very difficult. She often cries and her eyes are broken. In order to treat his mother, A Niu worked for the rich, while growing vegetables in the dark early in the morning, selling vegetables to earn some money, and seeking medical treatment and buying medicine for his mother. I don't know how much medicine I took, but my mother's eye disease is still not getting better.

One night, A Niu had a dream that a girl came to help him grow vegetables and told him, "There is a smallpox swing dozens of miles west along the canal. There is a white chrysanthemum in the swing, which can cure eye diseases. This kind of flower won't bloom until the Double Ninth Festival in September. When the time comes, you can give this flower to your mother, which will definitely cure her eye disease. "

On the Double Ninth Festival, A Niu took dry food to the ceiling to find white chrysanthemums. It turns out that this is a wild field full of weeds, called wild field. He searched there for a long time, but only Huang Juhua couldn't find the white chrysanthemum. He found a white wild chrysanthemum beside a small mound in the grass, which kept swinging on the grass until the afternoon. This kind of white chrysanthemum is very special, with nine branches in one stem. There is only one bloom, and the other eight are in bud. A Niu dug up this white chrysanthemum with roots and soil and planted it next to his house. After his watering and care, eight flowers soon opened, fragrant and beautiful. So he picks a chrysanthemum and gives it to his mother every day. After eating the seventh chrysanthemum, A Niu's mother's eyes began to see again.

The girl continued to introduce the method of planting chrysanthemums in her dream.

The girl said, "I am the chrysanthemum fairy in the sky, and I am here to help you." As long as you follow a ballad of planting chrysanthemums, white chrysanthemums will surely grow a living person. " Then Juxian read: "Three points and four heads, watering in May, throwing materials in June, covering the head in July and August, and rolling hydrangeas in September." It disappeared after reading it.

A Niu went back to the house to read Ju Xian's "Chrysanthemum Ballad" carefully, and finally realized its meaning: planting chrysanthemums requires transplanting in March, pinching flowers in April, watering more in May, fertilizing frequently in June, protecting roots in July and August, and hydrangea-shaped chrysanthemums can only bloom in September.

A Niu did it according to the instructions of Chrysanthemum Fairy. Later, many branches grew on the old roots of chrysanthemum. He cut off these branches to make cuttings, and then cultivated them according to the saying of "planting chrysanthemums" On the ninth double ninth festival in September of the following year, white chrysanthemums were in full bloom and the fragrance was overflowing.

Later, A Niu taught the poor in the village the skills of planting chrysanthemums, and more and more people planted white chrysanthemums in this area. Because A Niu discovered this white chrysanthemum on the ninth day of September, people later called it Chrysanthemum Festival, and formed the custom of enjoying chrysanthemum, eating chrysanthemum tea and drinking chrysanthemum wine.

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