The 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th lunar month is the Chung Yeung Festival, when did the Chung Yeung Festival become an official holiday?

We all know that today is the ninth day of the ninth month on the lunar calendar, but few people know why it has become a holiday. In fact, today is a festival in the traditional Chinese sense, Chongyang Festival, because China's traditional script I Ching in the six as the number of yin, and nine as the number of yang, the first nine months of September is the number of the two yang, so people called Chongyang, and sometimes some areas have a custom will be called the Festival of the Ninth. In our country during the Warring States period has formed this festival, to the Tang Dynasty was officially designated as a folk festival, to the present day we are still in the festival, in fact, the Chongyang Festival of various different ethnic groups have different customs. According to folk customs, today should be far away nostalgic hometown, because in this season chrysanthemums bloom, so people will come to this time to climb the mountain, chrysanthemums, chrysanthemums, drink wine, insert dogwoods, this custom is also very meaningful, because of the first nine in September there are two nine, so the people take its harmony with the meaning of a long time, so often in the implementation of the festival to pay homage to their ancestors, promote respect for the elderly love old people with filial piety as a priority for a variety of activities.

I. In modern times, the Chongyang Festival is also called the Festival of the Elderly.

Many people do not know, Chongyang Festival in ancient times has a long history, rich in festivals, activities to make people feel happy, in 2012, China's law clearly stipulates that the day of the first nine days of September every year Chongyang Festival is the Day of the Elderly, because the day to worship ancestors, respect for the elderly and love the elderly, the promotion of filial piety as a priority, from the legal meaning of the determination of a festival.

Second, there are many customs of Chongyang Festival, very fun, each region, each ethnic group to celebrate the festival in a different way.

In ancient times, people had a lot of Chongyang Festival customs, each ethnic group, each dynasty to celebrate the festival in a different way, some dynasties like to climb in this day to insert cornelian cherry, some dynasties some ethnic groups like to wear cornelian cherry to achieve the purpose of driving away evil spirits, but also some dynasties, some ethnic groups, like this day to drink chrysanthemum wine, climb the mountain chrysanthemum appreciation, very meaningful memorial.

From the above points, we can see that Chongyang Festival, in the Warring States period has become a festival, in the Tang Dynasty has become an official holiday.