The Chongyang Festival is a mixture of many folklore in its historical development and evolution, and carries a rich cultural connotation. In the folklore concept of "nine" is the largest number in

The Chongyang Festival is a mixture of many folklore in its historical development and evolution, and carries a rich cultural connotation. In the folklore concept of "nine" is the largest number in the number, has a long life meaning, sent people to the old man's health and longevity of the blessing .

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? The Chongyang Festival has these customs and activities: climbing high, sunshine autumn, enjoy chrysanthemum, put paper kites, wear dogwood.

One, the first nine days of September ate these

?1, eat the cake

September 9, when the sky is clear, to piece of cake on the children's head, the mouth of the words, wishing the children a hundred things all the way to the high, is the ancient people in September for the cake of the original intention.

Specialized Chrysanthemum cake to be made into nine layers, like a pagoda, the top is also made into two small sheep, in line with the meaning of Chrysanthemum (sheep).

Some also inserted a small red paper flag (instead of cornelian cherry) on the cake, and light candles and lamps.

This is probably the meaning of "lighting lamps" and "eating cakes" instead of "ascending".

Today's Chrysanthemum Cake, there is still no fixed variety, all over the Chrysanthemum Festival to eat the fluffy cakes are called Chrysanthemum Cake.

?2, eat crab

"Autumn wind, crab feet itch." Before and after the Chongyang Festival, it is the crab cream full of yellow fat, so the Chongyang Festival and the custom of eating crabs.

The reason why the Chongyang Festival will have to eat crabs this argument, mainly because the Chongyang Festival is the first nine days of September in the lunar calendar each year, which is already late autumn, this time the crab meat is delicious, crab fat, nutritional value and food value are relatively high; Secondly, the Chongyang Festival is also a festival of respect for the elderly, this time to relatives to buy The first thing you need to do is to buy some crabs for your loved ones, also a way to show filial piety.

?3, eat mutton noodles

"Sheep" and "Yang" harmonized, should be the ceremony of the Chongyang. Noodles to eat white noodles, "white" is "hundred" word to remove the top of the "one", a hundred minus one for ninety-nine symbolism, in order to be "nine nine The "Nine Nine" symbolizes the meaning of "one hundred minus one", so as to echo the "nine nine".

Additionally, the Chongyang Festival is in the autumn, autumn is also the most delicious season to eat lamb, can warm up to get rid of cold, warm in the warm down, is the most in line with the seasonal needs, so the Chongyang Festival to eat mutton noodles is just right.

Two, Chongyang Festival have these customs and activities

?1, climb up

Ancient folk in Chongyang Festival has the custom of climbing up, so Chongyang Festival is also known as the "festival of the heights".

The custom of the Chongyang Festival stems from the climate characteristics and the ancient worship of mountains.

The Chrysanthemum Festival "ascending" custom and the Taoist September 9 "ascension to immortality" also has an intrinsic link, in the Taoist culture, September 9 Chrysanthemum Festival this day is "In the Taoist culture, The day of the 9th day of the 9th month is the best time to ascend to heaven and become immortal, so the Taoist legends choose the 9th day of the 9th month to "ascend to heaven and become immortal".

The Taoists believe that on this day, the clear air rises and the turbid air sinks, and that the higher the terrain, the more the clear air gathers, and the more the clear air can be used to ascend to heaven.

?2, sunshine in the fall

"Sunshine in the fall" is a typical agricultural phenomenon, with strong regional characteristics.

In Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui, Jiangxi and other villagers living in mountainous areas, because of the complex terrain, the village flat land is very little, so we have to use the front and back of the house and the roof of the home windows frame sun, hanging sun crops , over time it has evolved into a traditional agricultural phenomenon.

This villagers drying crops of the special way of life and the scene, and gradually became a painter, photographers chasing the creation of the material, and shaped poetic "sunshine autumn" name. Go to the countryside to enjoy folklore, see the sunshine autumn, has become a fashionable rural tourism.

?3, chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum Day, there has always been the custom of chrysanthemums, so the ancient also known as Chrysanthemum Festival.

The custom of chrysanthemum appreciation originated from chrysanthemum culture. Chrysanthemum is a natural flower, because of its colorful and frosty blossoms and the formation of the chrysanthemum culture of chrysanthemum appreciation. Since the Three Kingdoms, Wei and Jin dynasties, it has been fashionable to gather and drink at the Chrysanthemum Festival to enjoy chrysanthemums and write poems.

In ancient Chinese custom, chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity. Chrysanthemum is the flower of longevity, and it is also praised by the literati as a symbol of unyielding frost.

?4, release the paper kite

Release the paper kite is one of the main customs in the south of the Chongyang Festival. The folk festival is mainly characterized by flying paper kites (kites). Guangxu "Huizhou Prefecture Zhi" also recorded. The paper kite can easily ride on the wind when it is released on the Chongyang Festival.

There is an ancient saying that releasing paper kites on the Chongyang Festival is to release "bad luck", and the higher and farther the kites fly, the more bad luck will go away.

There is another way of saying: Paper kites are for good luck and good fortune, and the farther the kites fly, the stronger the fortune.

Paper kite breaks means the good fortune flies away. So you will be careful to protect the thread from breaking.

?5, wear Cornus

Anciently, there was also a nine dogwood custom, so it is also called Cornus Festival. The old Han folk festival custom, popular in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the Huaihe River, the Yangtze River basin and other places. Cornelian cherry is a kind of fruit that can be used as traditional Chinese medicine.

The ancients believed that hiking in the mountains and inserting cornelian cherry on the day of Chongyang Festival could drive away insects and dampness, and drive away the wind and evil spirits. So they wore the cornelian cherry on their arms or ground up in a bag of incense, as well as inserted in the head. Most of them are worn by women and children, and in some places, men also wear them.

Plugging cornelian cherry and other ancient customs are folk hiking to drive the wind and evil behavior, Chongyang Festival Qing Qi up, turbid gas sinking, people with natural medicines cornelian cherry and other adjustments to the health of the body to adapt to the natural climate change.

September 9, Chongyang Festival, in the fall of this harvest season, nature has a lot of food for people to taste.

"Nine" number in the "I Ching" for the number of yang, "nine" two yang number is heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; because the sun and the moon are nine, so it is also known as "heavy nine". The first is the "sun", the second is the "moon", the third is the "sun", and the third is the "moon". The ancient people believed that the 9th day of the 9th lunar month was an auspicious day.

An auspicious day is accompanied by the above customs, more vivid and interesting. The 9th day of the 9th month of September, Chongyang Festival, is also a day of respect for the elderly, remember to be more filial piety to elders on this day Oh!