Why should we respect the elderly on the Double Ninth Festival?

1, ancestor worship-Chongyang is one of the four major festivals in China.

Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Zhongyuan Festival are collectively called the four traditional festivals for ancestor worship in China. China people have a tradition of pursuing the future cautiously, and they will never forget to pay homage to their dead ancestors in festivals. In China, it is a common ceremony to offer food or flowers to express one's heart. The form of ancestor worship may vary according to different religious beliefs, but the significance of commemorating ancestors is the same.

2. Respect for the elderly-The Double Ninth Festival is still the "Old People's Day" in China in the new era.

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.

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Custom:

1, enjoy chrysanthemum

The Double Ninth Festival has always had the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums, so it has been called Chrysanthemum Festival since ancient times. The custom of appreciating chrysanthemums originated from chrysanthemum culture. Chrysanthemum is a natural flower. Chrysanthemum has formed chrysanthemum culture because of its colorful colors and blooming in Ao Shuang. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the Three Kingdoms, it has become fashionable for Chongyang parties to drink and enjoy chrysanthemums and recite poems. In the ancient customs of China, chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity. Chrysanthemum is the flower of longevity, and is praised by scholars as the unyielding symbol of first frost.

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The ancients regarded Chongyang and Shangsi (or Qingming) as the corresponding spring and autumn festivals. If thinking above is a festival for people to go swimming after the long winter, then Chongyang is a ceremonial autumn outing when the autumn is cold and the new is coming, and people are about to live in seclusion, so there are the folk customs of "going for an outing" in Tomb-Sweeping Day and "bidding farewell to youth" on the Double Ninth Festival.

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