What animal is the Chongyang Festival associated with?

The Chongyang Festival is related to the animal rat. The Jiu Jiu Chong Yang Festival is the rat in the Chinese zodiac. Jiu Jiu Chong Yang, or Chong Yang Festival, is also known as the Festival of the Heavy Nine. Sunshine Autumn Festival, Treading Autumn, a traditional Han Chinese festival. Celebration of the Chongyang Festival usually includes activities such as going out to enjoy the fall, climbing high and far away, viewing chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods all over the place, eating chrysanthemum cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine, and so on. It is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, along with the New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, and the Chinese New Year's Day, which are collectively known as the four major traditional Chinese festivals for ancestor worship.

Ancient Chrysanthemum Festival

The Chrysanthemum Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena, which began in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished after the Tang Dynasty. According to the existing historical materials and evidence, in the ancient times, there are in the season of autumn harvest held in the sky, ancestor worship activities. Ancient people in September when the crop harvest sacrifices to the emperor, ancestor worship, in order to thank the emperor, ancestor grace activities, which is the Chongyang Festival as a fall harvest ritual activities and the existence of the original form. The Tang Dynasty is an important period of traditional festival customs kneaded and finalized, and the main part of its inheritance to this day.