What is the date of Chung Yeung Festival What is the custom of Chung Yeung Festival?

The specific time of the Chongyang Festival is the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and the Chongyang Festival in 2023 will be on October 23rd. Because "nine nine" and "long long" homophonic, nine in the number is the largest number, there is a long long life meaning, so the ancient people think, Chongyang Festival is a worthy of celebration of auspicious days.

? The custom of Chung Yeung Festival?

? First, appreciate chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum Festival is the golden autumn of the year, chrysanthemums in full bloom, according to legend, chrysanthemum and chrysanthemum wine, originated in the Jin Dynasty great poet Tao Yuanming. Tao Yuanming was famous for his seclusion, his poetry, his wine and his love of chrysanthemums; later generations followed his example, and the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums at the Chrysanthemum Festival was born.

In the old days, the literati also combined chrysanthemum appreciation with banquets and drinks to get closer to Tao Yuanming. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the capital city of Kaifeng, the chrysanthemum appreciation of the Chrysanthemum was prevalent, and the chrysanthemums at that time had many varieties, with a variety of colors and shapes. Folk also called the ninth month of the lunar calendar "the month of chrysanthemums", and in the Chrysanthemum Festival where chrysanthemums blossomed in the frost, viewing chrysanthemums became an important part of the festival. After the Qing Dynasty, chrysanthemum appreciation is especially prosperous, and is not limited to the ninth day of September, but is still the most prosperous before and after the Chrysanthemum Festival.

? Second, eat Chung Yeung cake

"Cake" and "high" is a harmonic, symbolizing the upward, progress, and so on, so in the Chung Yeung Festival on the custom of eating cake, Chung Yeung cake is generally a layer of a layer of cake, but also to take its "layers of high" meaning; in fact, Chongyang cake does not have a fixed form and variety, generally eaten on the day of Chongyang Festival cakes can be called Chongyang cake.

In the Jiangsu and Zhejiang area Chongyang cake is generally glutinous rice cake or rice flour cake, glutinous rice cake is the most classic glutinous red bean cake, rice flour cake is the most classic osmanthus cake.

Chongyang Festival is the first nine days of the ninth month of the lunar calendar each year, this time of year, high and clear, to go hiking is the most appropriate, that why there will be a Chongyang Festival to climb the saying? Legend has it that during the Eastern Han Dynasty, on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, there was a "plague", people need to go as high as possible in order to avoid the plague, to protect the peace, so after so many years of inheritance, there is a Chrysanthemum Festival climbing custom, "climbing to see the distance" hope that far away! loved ones peace, good health, hope their lives "step by step", this season climbing mountains can also feel the autumn scenery, breathe fresh air, three birds with one stone;

The Chongyang Festival sends a good blessing to the elderly health and long life Allegory of longevity and well-being;

Autumn is the season of crop harvest, sunshine autumn is a phenomenon that occurs in many places before and after the Chrysanthemum Festival is one of the most anticipated things of the year, the relationship between the farmer's income for a year, especially in recent years has been widely recognized, a lot of places in the sunshine autumn into the development of attractions, such as the famous "Huangling sunshine autumn", every season will attract a lot of tourists to enjoy.

Sunshine Autumn is actually living in the terrain of the more complex areas of people, because the door behind the house flat land is relatively small, the autumn harvest of some of the food in the sun on the roof, window sill or hanging in the eaves, in short, see the seams, where there is free on the sun, red, yellow, green, green, and so on, the more rich these colors represent the harvest more, so over time! The "sunshine autumn" has become a unique autumn scenery, colorful on behalf of the "five grain harvest".

Anciently, there was also the custom of nine nine dogwoods, so it is also called Cornucopia Festival. Cornus officinalis is used in medicine, and can be made into wine to nourish the body and dispel diseases. Cornus and hairpin chrysanthemum in the Tang Dynasty has been very common. Cornus officinalis has a strong flavor, has the effect of driving away insects and dampness, expelling wind and evil spirits, and can eliminate food accumulation and cure cold and heat. Folk believe that the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar is also the day of evil, many disasters, so in the Chongyang Festival people like to wear cornelian cherry to ward off evil spirits and seek good luck. Cornus officinalis is also known as the "evil weng".

Honoring the elderly is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. The nine nine heavy sun cohesion of the Chinese nation thousands of generations of "Lao Wu Lao" of the strong deep feelings and endless national style. If you can be with your parents on Chongyang Festival, remember to give them a hug, make a meal for them, wash their feet once, if you are struggling in a foreign country on Chongyang Festival, can not be accompanied by their parents, remember to give them a phone call, say thank you, say a miss!