Traditional Customs of Chongyang Festival

The formation of the Chongyang Festival can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods more than 2,000 years ago, and during the Tang Dynasty, it was designated as an official festival, and since then, the court and the private sector have organized a variety of activities on this day to ****together to celebrate the Chongyang Festival. Here are a few of the customs of the Chongyang Festival.

One, insert cornelian cherry and hairpin chrysanthemum

The custom of inserting cornelian cherry on Chrysanthemum Day was already common in the Tang Dynasty. Ancient people believed that in the Chongyang Festival this day insert cornelian cherry can take refuge in the disaster; or wear in the arm, or as incense bag to put cornelian cherry inside the belt, there are also inserted in the head. Mostly women, children wear, some places, men also wear. Chrysanthemum Festival to wear cornelian cherry, in the Jin Dynasty Ge Hong "Western Scripture Miscellany" has been recorded. Besides wearing cornelian cherry, people also wear chrysanthemums on their heads. This was already the case in the Tang Dynasty and has been practiced throughout the ages. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of the Chongyang Festival in Beijing was to put chrysanthemum branches and leaves on doors and windows to "lift up the evils and attract good luck". This is a variation of the head hairpin chrysanthemum. Song Dynasty, there will be colorful silk cut into cornelian cherry, chrysanthemum flowers to give each other to wear.

Two, drink chrysanthemum wine

Ancient chrysanthemum wine, the first year of the Chrysanthemum Festival, designed for the second year of the Chrysanthemum Festival brewed. On September 9, the day, pick the first blooming chrysanthemum and a little verdant branches and leaves, mixed into the grain ready for brewing, and then used together to brew wine, put to drink on September 9 of the second year. Legend has it that drinking this kind of wine can prolong one's life. During the festive season, autumn is crisp, chrysanthemums are in full bloom, and the hedges in front of the windows are golden. In addition to the dogwood, friends and relatives invited to drink chrysanthemum wine, *** enjoy chrysanthemums, really have a lot of fun. Especially the poets, chrysanthemum drinking, poetry and entertainment, leaving a lot of good lines for future generations. Chrysanthemum contains health ingredients, and drinking chrysanthemum wine during the Chung Yeung Festival is a traditional Chinese custom. In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was regarded as a "good luck wine" to pray for good luck and get rid of disasters.

Three, to climb the faraway

In the day of the Chongyang Festival, there is a common folk custom, that is, people want to go out on this day to climb the faraway. About its origin, there are two sayings.

1. In ancient times, people worshipped the mountain gods and believed that "the nine old suns, yang will change", so on September 9, we should go to the mountains to see the mountains and worship the mountain gods for good luck, and then gradually evolved into a recreational activity.

2. Chrysanthemum season, most of the busy fall harvest has ended, this time the people are relatively free, the mountains of wild fruits, herbs and is the ripe season, so people will go to the mountains to collect wild fruits, herbs, etc., and then gradually focus on the activities to the Chrysanthemum this day, evolved into Chrysanthemum Festival to climb the custom.

Four, eat Chung Yeung cake

Chong Yeung cake, also known as "flower cake", "chrysanthemum cake", "hair cake" and so on. Cake on the small colorful flags, cake printed on two sheep, take the meaning of "Chongyang". Some places in the September 9, daybreak, to piece of cake on the forehead of the children, reading in his mouth, wishing his children all things are high. In other places, birthday gifts should be sent back to the cake, but also take the meaning of high life and step by step.

Fifth,Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum Festival is the best time to open the chrysanthemums, but also a good time to enjoy the chrysanthemums, chrysanthemums in full bloom, to perceive the beauty of life. Probably the ancients just like such a quiet, modern life is very restless, so people have to follow the Jin Dynasty world Tao Yuanming, hidden with the chrysanthemum as a companion, and chrysanthemum viewing custom is also passed down from this moment.

The above are the customs of Chongyang Festival.

In the folklore concept, because "nine" and "long time" homophonic, nine in the number is the largest number, there is a long life meaning, so the ancients believed that the Chongyang Festival is a worthy of celebration of the auspicious day. 1980s, China's Starting in the 1980s, some places in China to the summer calendar as the first nine September "Elderly People's Day", advocating the whole society to establish respect for the elderly, respect for the elderly, love for the elderly, help the elderly culture.