What festival is September 9th? What are the customs?

The ninth day of September is the Double Ninth Festival. Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing to the distance, watching chrysanthemums, picking Chinese herbal medicines, holding banquets for the elderly, eating double ninth cake, making wine for health, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities.

The Double Ninth Festival is a season of "clear sky rising, turbid air sinking". The higher the terrain, the more clear the sky, so "climbing to enjoy the clear sky on the Double Ninth Festival" has become a folk custom. Autumn in September, the sky is crisp, this season, climbing high and looking far can achieve the purpose of refreshing, fitness and recuperation. There are many folk activities and rich cultural connotations in the Double Ninth Festival.

Villagers living in mountainous areas such as Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui and Jiangxi. It has become a traditional agricultural custom to use the roof in front of the house and the window sill to hang crops.

The legend of Double Ninth Festival:

Double Ninth Festival, like most traditional festivals, is regarded as the "origin" of climbing custom by a myth and legend attached to the meeting. This legend can be found in the mythical novel "The Peace of Qi Xu" written by Wu Jun in the Liang Dynasty: Runan Huanjing and Fei Changfang traveled together for many years, and Changfang said, "On September 9th, there will be disaster in your home. It is advisable to leave in a hurry and let the family make their own crimson bags, hold dogwood, tie their arms, and climb high to drink chrysanthemum wine. This disaster can be eliminated. "

Picturesque scenery, family climbing mountains. The same is true at night, when chickens, dogs, cattle and sheep suddenly die. The eldest room listened: "This can be exchanged." Today, people climb mountains and drink on the 9th, and women take the bag of Cornus officinalis, so the cover begins here.

Influenced by the myth of "climbing to avoid the epidemic" on September 9, people in some places think that Chongyang is a bad day, so in order to suppress and overcome evil spirits, the main sacrificial activity of Chongyang Festival is climbing the mountain, and the rest are additional activities.