The True Meaning of Chongyang Festival

The significance of the Chongyang Festival lies in honoring the elderly and reunion.

The 9th day of the 9th lunar month was designated as the Day of the Elderly in 1989, advocating that the whole society establish a culture of respecting the elderly, honoring the elderly, loving the elderly, and helping the elderly. This can be said to be a new manifestation of the Chongyang Festival in the new era of China, the significance of the Chongyang Festival, from the ancestors to the present, from history to the present.

From the historical and cultural heritage, respect for the elderly and love for the elderly is the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation, we do not care about other nationalities, but the reason why the Chinese nation is the Chinese nation, the reason why the blood is thicker than water, the reason why through the vicissitudes of life, the reason why the "flavor of mankind" is very strong, respect for the elderly, respect for the elderly and love for the elderly is an important aspect.

The origin of the September 9th Chongyang Festival

The 9th Chongyang Festival, as early as in the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States period of the "Chu words" has been mentioned. Qu Yuan's "far travel" wrote: "set Chongyang into the emperor's palace Ruoxi, made the beginning of ten days and watch the Qingdu". The word "Chongyang" here refers to the day, not yet to the festival. Cao Pi, the Emperor of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, in his "Book of the Ninth Day and Zhong Yao", clearly wrote about the Chongyang feast: "The years go by and the months come and go, and suddenly it is the ninth day of the ninth month. Nine is the number of yang, and the sun and the moon should also be, the common people commend its name, think it is suitable for a long time, so to enjoy the feast of the high meeting."

Tao Yuanming, a literati of the Jin Dynasty, said in the preface to the poem "Nine Days of Idleness": "I live in idleness, love the name of the ninth. Autumn chrysanthemums fill the garden, while holding the mash by and by, empty clothing nine Chinese, sends the mind to the words." Here both chrysanthemum and wine are mentioned. Probably in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Chongyang Day has been the practice of drinking wine, chrysanthemum appreciation. In the Tang Dynasty, Chongyang was officially designated as a folk festival. To the Ming Dynasty, the September Chung Yeung, the palace up and down to eat flower cakes together to celebrate, the emperor to personally go to Mount Banzai to climb high, in order to smooth the autumn Zhi, this custom has been passed down to the Qing Dynasty.