What are the traditional festival customs of Chung Yeung Festival?

The traditional festival customs of Chongyang Festival are: ancestor worship, ascending the heights and eating Chongyang cake.

1, ancestor worship:

Chongyang Festival and New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, July 30th, etc. are traditional Chinese ancestor festivals, ancestor worship is a major theme of the main festivals to do the festival. Ancient China belongs to the farming society, agricultural civilization, is extremely important to the experience of ancestors of a civilization form. The Chinese people since ancient times, respect for ancestors, the concept of rituals and customs of prudence, with the custom of sacrificing to the ancestors on New Year's Day, to show filial piety and respect, not forgetting the root.

2, climbing:

Ancient folk in the Chongyang Festival has the custom of climbing, so the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Festival of heights". Chrysanthemum climbing custom originated at this time the climate characteristics and the ancient worship of mountains. Chongyang Festival "ascend" custom and Taoism September 9 "ascension to immortality" also has an intrinsic link, in Taoist culture, the early September 9 Chongyang Festival this day is "ascension to immortality" the best time! In Taoist culture, Chongyang Festival is the best time to "ascend to heaven and become immortal", which is why Taoist legends often choose September 9 to "ascend to heaven and become immortal". Taoists believe that the day of the Qing Qi up, the higher the terrain, the more Qing Qi gathered, you can ride the Qing Qi and ascend to heaven.

3, eat Chung Yeung cake:

The Chung Yeung Festival eat Chung Yeung cake originated from the Chung Yeung ascension custom, which is also known as flower cake, is made of glutinous rice flour and japonica rice flour made of a kind of gourmet food, but also is the best gift for elders. Because "cake" and "high" sound the same, so the folk to eat cake instead of climbing high, but also "step by step" meaning in it.

Introduction of the Chongyang Festival:

The Chongyang Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival held on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. "Nine" number in the "I Ching" for the number of yang, "nine" two yang number is heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; because the sun and the moon are on the nine, so it is also known as "Chongjiu The sun and the moon coincide with nine, so it is also called "Chongjiu". Nine nine to the true, the beginning of a yuan, the ancients believed that the nine suns are auspicious days. In ancient times, the folk in the Chongyang Festival have climbed high to pray for blessings, worship God and ancestor worship and feasts to pray for life and other customs. Since then, it has added the connotation of honoring the elderly. Climbing up to enjoy the autumn and thanksgiving and respect for the elderly are two important themes of today's Chrysanthemum Festival activities.

The Chrysanthemum Festival originated from the worship of heavenly phenomena and began in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished after the Tang Dynasty. According to the existing historical materials and evidence, the ancient times in the season of autumn harvest held in the sky, ancestor worship activities; ancient people in September when the crop harvest sacrifices to the emperor, ancestor worship, in order to thank the emperor of the sky, ancestor grace activities, this is the Chung Yeung Festival as a fall harvest rituals and the existence of the original form. The Tang Dynasty was an important period in which traditional festival customs were kneaded and finalized, and the main part of them has been handed down to the present day.