The Origin and Customs of Double Ninth Festival

1, the origin of the Double Ninth Festival: The origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. The Record in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals says: "Give orders to the family to slaughter, prepare the fields for harvest, and give them five necessities. The Tibetan emperor's book is collected in the holy warehouse, and I only respect it. " "It's the day, Great Emperor. I'll taste the sacrifice and tell the son of heaven." It can be seen that at that time, when the crops were harvested in autumn and September, there were activities of offering sacrifices to the emperor and ancestors to thank them for their kindness.

2. Double Ninth Festival custom: Double Ninth Festival has the custom of sunbathing in autumn, flying kites, climbing mountains, eating double ninth cake, worshipping ancestors, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine, enjoying dogwood and hosting banquets to pray for longevity. Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival in China, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. Because the ancients thought "Double Ninth Festival" was an auspicious day.

3. The origin of old traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents, which contains profound cultural connotations of respecting morality, etiquette and music civilization. Double Ninth Festival has a long history. In ancient times, there were different customs in the north and the south. In the pre-Qin period, local customs had not been integrated and circulated, and the activities of the Double Ninth Festival were rarely recorded in writing. The existing written records about the custom of the Double Ninth Festival were first found in Lu Chunqiu Qiu Ji Ji, which recorded the ancient people's activities of offering sacrifices to the Heaven Emperor and ancestors in September. According to research, the origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to ancient times. There were harvest and ancestor worship activities in ancient autumn. The custom of Double Ninth Festival was popular in Han Dynasty, which was a period of economic and cultural exchange and integration between the north and the south of China. Cultural exchanges between different places spread in a mixed way. The Han Dynasty work Miscellanies of Xijing contains the ancient custom of seeking longevity on the Double Ninth Festival. This is the earliest record of the custom of seeking longevity on the Double Ninth Festival in written materials. It is said that this is influenced by ancient wizards' pursuit of longevity and collection of drugs. At the same time, there are also large-scale banquet activities, which developed from the Qingfeng banquet in the pre-Qin period.