Legends about Chongyang Festival Legends about the origin of Chongyang Festival

1. Chung Yeung Festival is a traditional festival in China, celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year. Like most traditional festivals, the Chongyang Festival also has ancient legends.

2, according to legend, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there is a plague devil in the territory of Ru Nan County, every September 9 will come out to do evil. The plague demon took away Hengjing's parents, so he was determined to prevent the immortal to learn the art, for the people to get rid of the harm. Hengjing went through a lot of difficulties and found an immortal with high magic power. He worships his master and practices, and finally learns the art of demon-subduing swordsmanship.

3. Hengjing returned to his hometown, and according to the immortal's instructions, on the ninth day of the ninth month, he gave each villager a piece of cornelian cherry and a cup of chrysanthemum wine, and took the villagers to the mountains to avoid danger. When the plague demon appeared, it suddenly smelled the dogwood and chrysanthemum wine and dared not advance. Hengjing held a sword at this time, and killed the plague demon Since then, every Chongyang, insert cornelian cherry and drink chrysanthemum wine has become the custom of Chongyang Festival.

4, and in the folk concept, nine has a long life meaning, so the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar is also designated as the Festival of Respect for the Elderly. 2006 Chrysanthemum Festival was included in the State Council in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.