What are the folk customs of Double Ninth Festival?

The customs of the Double Ninth Festival include chrysanthemum viewing, ancestor worship, drinking, mountain climbing and flying kites.

1. Chrysanthemum viewing: The Double Ninth Festival has always had the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums, so it was also called Chrysanthemum Festival in ancient times. Chrysanthemum is a natural flower, and its colorful colors and the blooming of Ao Shuang have formed a chrysanthemum culture of appreciating and praising chrysanthemums. In September of the lunar calendar, commonly known as Chrysanthemum Month, there is a chrysanthemum meeting on holidays, and people from all over the city go to the meeting to enjoy chrysanthemums. In the ancient customs of China, chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity, and is also praised by scholars as the unyielding symbol of first frost. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the Three Kingdoms, it has become a fashion for Chongyang parties to drink and admire chrysanthemums and compose poems.

2. Ancestor worship: The Double Ninth Festival is one of the four traditional ancestor worship festivals in China. In ancient times, there was a tradition of praying for the ancestors, especially in Lingnan area, people held ancestor worship activities every year on the Double Ninth Festival. Sacrificing ancestors and looking far up the mountain are to enhance people's cultural identity and strengthen the cohesion of family and society. However, with the development of history, many local people's concept of ancestor worship in Chongyang has become increasingly weak.

3. Drinking: Chrysanthemum wine, in ancient times, was regarded as an auspicious wine that Chongyang must drink and pray for disaster relief? Therefore, the Double Ninth Festival has always kept the custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine. Until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, chrysanthemum wine was still very popular, and it was still recorded in Gao Lian's Eight Chapters of Respect for Life in the Ming Dynasty. This is a popular health drink. Song people used chrysanthemum and dogwood to soak wine, and named dogwood to ward off evil spirits? Chrysanthemum prolongs life? Think that eating these two things can eliminate the nine evils of yang? . Nowadays, folk nursery rhymes are still circulating in Shandong: September 9, September 9, Double Ninth Festival, and chrysanthemum wine is full of fragrance? .

4. Climbing: Climbing is an important custom of the Double Ninth Festival. In the Han dynasty, this custom came from the story that Huanjing, a native of Runan, climbed the mountain on September 9 to avoid disaster. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the date of mountaineering was set on September 9th. The Chronicle of Jingchu said that on September 9, people from all walks of life went to the suburbs to climb mountains and hold a banquet to drink.

5. Flying kites: Flying kites is the main custom of the Double Ninth Festival in the south. The folk Double Ninth Festival is characterized by flying kites. Guangxu's "Huizhou Fuzhi" is also recorded. Paper kites are kites now. In the folk tradition, besides climbing mountains, flying kites is also a major feature of the Double Ninth Festival. Paper kite is also a modern kite. Five generations ago, it was called a paper kite in the north. In the south, it is usually called a kite? , paper owl in Huizhou? Appellation, clearly retains the ancient name before the five dynasties, and there is a mixture of north and south? Taste.