What are the customs of the Double Ninth Festival?

Double Ninth Festival, also known as Mountaineering Festival, Double Ninth Festival, September 9th, Cornus officinalis Festival and Chrysanthemum Festival, is a traditional festival of the Han nationality. Because it falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, it is also called the Double Ninth Festival. So what are the customs of the Double Ninth Festival?

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There is a custom of climbing mountains on the Double Ninth Festival. This custom in the Han Dynasty originated from the story that Huanjing, a native of Runan, went up the mountain on September 9 to avoid disaster. Nowadays, mountain climbing is not only to avoid disasters, but also has become a colorful amateur life.

Step 2 drink chrysanthemum wine

The Double Ninth Festival is the best time to enjoy autumn, and some mountain villages in the south of China still retain the characteristics of "basking in autumn". Going to the countryside to appreciate the folk customs and watch the autumn sun has become a fashion in rural tourism. This special lifestyle and scene of villagers drying crops has gradually become the material pursued and created by painters and photographers, and created a poetic name "drying autumn".

Step 3 enjoy chrysanthemums

The Double Ninth Festival is the time when chrysanthemums are in full bloom and the best time to enjoy chrysanthemums. China is the hometown of chrysanthemum, which is also called the flower of longevity. Seeing chrysanthemums on the Double Ninth Festival means praying for longevity and prolonging life. So chrysanthemum is also called "longevity guest". It is said that the custom of appreciating chrysanthemums on the Double Ninth Festival originated from Tao Yuanming, a great poet in Jin Dynasty.

Step 4 insert Evodia rutaecarpa

The ancients also popularized the custom of inserting dogwood. Cornus officinalis has a strong aroma, and has the functions of expelling parasites, removing dampness, expelling wind, promoting digestion and resolving food stagnation, and treating cold and heat. People think that the ninth day of September is also a disastrous day, so people like to wear dogwood to ward off evil spirits and seek good luck. Therefore, Cornus officinalis is also called "evil spirit".

5, eat Chongyang cake

Later generations still have the habit of eating "Double Ninth Festival" on this day. Chongyang cake is also called "flower cake", because there is no mountain that can't be climbed, and some people think of eating cake from climbing. If you don't climb the hill, you will rise step by step. Because it is specially eaten in Chongyang, it is named "Chongyang cake".

Step 6 respect the elderly

Double Ninth Festival, homophonic "99", is naturally easy to be endowed with the meaning of long life, and people began to hold banquets at this time in the Western Han Dynasty. September 9th of the lunar calendar 1989 is designated as the Day for the Elderly, and the whole society is encouraged to establish the atmosphere of respecting, loving and helping the elderly. This can be said to be a new embodiment of the Double Ninth Festival in the new era of China, which has shifted the significance of the Double Ninth Festival from ancestors to modern people and from history to the present.

On this day, you are busy with your life. It's time to have a rest. A phone call, a dinner, and a good time with the elderly. Don't wait for the past to know how to cherish it.