12 Songs about the Double Ninth Festival

There are 12 songs about the Double Ninth Festival: wine on September 9th, sunset red, when you are old, daughter red on September 9th, often go home to see, sunny on September 9th, chrysanthemum terrace, watching the sun, for all his glory, sunset red several times, Double Ninth Festival, to big brother.

Double Ninth Festival is a traditional folk festival in China, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. The number of "Nine" is a positive number in the Book of Changes, and the two positive numbers of "Nine Nine" are heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; Because the day and the month meet on the ninth day, it is also called "Double Ninth Festival". Double Ninth Festival is an auspicious day.

In ancient times, there were folk customs such as climbing mountains and praying for blessings, worshipping ancestors and drinking and praying for blessings, which have been passed down to this day and added the connotation of respecting the elderly. Climbing the mountain to enjoy autumn and giving thanks to respect for the elderly are two important themes of today's Double Ninth Festival. The Double Ninth Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena, which began in ancient times, spread in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished after the Tang Dynasty. According to the existing historical data and textual research, in ancient times, there were activities of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors in season and autumn.

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The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents, and contains profound cultural connotations of respecting morality, etiquette and music civilization. Double Ninth Festival has a long history. In ancient times, the north and the south had different customs. 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 can be found in Lu Chunqiu Qiu Ji Ji, which records the activities of the ancients in offering sacrifices to the Heavenly Emperor and ancestors in September. According to textual research, the origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to ancient times, and there were ritual activities of offering sacrifices to ancestors in Qiu Ji.