The origin of the Chongyang Festival ascend the heights

The Origin of Climbing High on Chongyang FestivalThe ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional festival of our people--Chongyang Festival. Many customs about Chrysanthemum Day have been passed down in different places, the most common of which is to ascend the heights on Chrysanthemum Day.

Our ancestors regarded Chongyang as a festival of good fortune and longevity. Because "nine" is the highest number of digits from "one", the ancients regarded "nine" as an auspicious, long-lasting "to number ", "Yang number", said the lunar calendar for the nine months "Yang month", nine days for the "Yang Day". The ninth day of the ninth month is precisely the "to the number" meets, the two Yang overlap, so the name "Chongyang".

The Chongyang Festival, generally believed to have begun in the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to the record of "Qi Harmonious Records", during the Eastern Han Dynasty, Huan Jing, a native of RuNan, followed Fei ChangFang, a master of YiXue, to study for many years. One day, Fei Changfang said to Huanjing: September 9 this day, your family will have a big trouble, you must go home immediately, tell the family with dogwood tied to the arm, the family climbed high. Sure enough, on the ninth day of the ninth month, all the livestock of Huanjing's family died of plague, while Huanjing's family listened to his teacher's advice and was spared.

From then on, every year on the eve of the Chung Yeung Festival, the people near the mountains to avoid the scourge of heaven, they have to climb the mountain to avoid the evil. And the people living in the plains, because there is no mountain to climb, in the Chung Yeung this day, in the homemade rice flour cake inserted a colorful triangular flag, with "eating cake" instead of "climb high", with triangular flag instead of "cornelian cherry", to show that climb high "to show the meaning of ascending high to avoid evil spirits. Over time, the custom of Chongyang ascends to the heights will be inherited.