Knowledge of Chongyang Festival Significance of Chongyang Festival

1. Chongyang Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The festival is held on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year. "Nine" number in the "I Ching" for the number of Yang, "nine" two Yang heavy, so it is called "Chung Yeung"; because the sun and the moon are nine, so it is also known as "Chung Kau". The sun and the moon coincide with nine, so it is also called "Chongjiu". Nine nine to the true, the beginning of a yuan, the ancients believed that the nine suns are auspicious days. In ancient times, the folk in the Chongyang Festival have climbed high to pray for blessings, worship God and ancestor worship and feasts to pray for life and other customs. Since then, it has added the connotation of honoring the elderly. Climbing up to enjoy the autumn and thanksgiving and respect for the elderly are two important themes of today's Chongyang Festival activities.

2, Chongyang Festival originated from the worship of heaven. It began in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished after the Tang Dynasty. According to the existing historical materials and evidence, the ancient times in the seasonal autumn harvest held in the sky, ancestor worship activities; the ancients in September when the crop harvest sacrificed to the emperor, ancestor worship, in order to thank the emperor of the sky, ancestor grace activities, this is the Chongyang Festival as a fall harvest rituals and the existence of the original form. Tang Dynasty is an important period of traditional festival customs kneaded and finalized, the main part of its inheritance to date.