What's the festival of Chrysanthemum Festival?

The festival of Chrysanthemums is said to be the day when brothers are known to climb high, and cornelian dogs are inserted all over the place and there is less of them.

The phrase comes from the poem "Remembering Shandong Brothers on September 9" by Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei.

The poem is as follows:

Whenever I am alone in a foreign land, I miss my family twice as much as I miss them at festivals.

It is a distant memory of the place where the brothers climbed to the heights, and there are fewer dogwoods to be planted all over.

Meaning: I know that my brothers and sisters are at home, and each of them has a dogwood sticking out of their bodies, but I am the only one missing.

Wang Wei's poem is a poem within a poem, and its first two lines have become a universal summary of people's feelings of homesickness in people's recitation. Therefore, whenever people think of their relatives during festivals, it is natural for them to recite these two lines of the poem.

Introduction to the Chongyang Festival

The Chongyang Festival, also known as the Festival of the Heavy Ninth, the Festival of Sunshine in Autumn, and the "Treading of Autumn", is a traditional Han Chinese festival. Celebrating the Chrysanthemum Festival usually includes activities such as going out to enjoy the fall, climbing up to a high altitude, viewing chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods all over the place, eating Chrysanthemum cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine, and so on. It is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth month of the Chinese lunar calendar every year, along with the New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival and Zhongyuan Festival, which are collectively known as the four traditional Chinese festivals of ancestor worship.