The origin and customs of Chongyang

The origin of Chung Yeung is: Chung Yeung Festival first originated in the ancient period of China, because of the ancient people's worship of the heavenly phenomena in the fall held in the harvest sacrifice to heaven, ancestor worship activities evolved. Chrysanthemum customs are enjoying chrysanthemums, climbing high, drinking chrysanthemum wine, honoring the elderly, drinking feasts to pray for longevity, ancestor worship, wearing dogwood, eating crabs, eating chrysanthemum cakes, eating chrysanthemum rice fruit, eating buckwheat noodles, boiled mutton, and so on.

The origin of the ancient traditional festival is related to the ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture and the sky, calendar and other humanities and natural cultural content, contains a deep cultural connotation of the civilization of respect and virtue, rituals and music. The Chongyang Festival has a long history. In ancient times, customs varied from north to south, and in the pre-Qin period, customs from different places had not yet been integrated and passed on, and the Chongyang Festival customs and activities were seldom seen in written records.

Existing written records of the Chrysanthemum Festival, the earliest in the "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" of the "season of the Autumn," contained in the ancient people in the September harvest offerings to the emperor, ancestor worship activities. According to evidence, the origin of the Chongyang Festival, can be traced back to ancient times, there are in ancient times in the season of autumn worship God ancestor rituals and customs activities.

The Chrysanthemum custom was popularized in the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was the period of economic and cultural exchanges and fusion between the north and south of China, the cultural exchanges around the festival fusion and spread. The Han Dynasty work "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" includes the ancient Chongyang Festival to seek longevity of the custom. This is the earliest record of the longevity-seeking custom of Chongyang Festival in written materials, which is said to have been influenced by the ancient sorcerers (later Taoist priests) who pursued longevity and collected medicines to take. At the same time, there are large-scale drinking and banqueting activities, which were developed from the pre-Qin feasts to celebrate the harvest.

Customs of Chrysanthemum Festival:

1, ancestor worship: Chrysanthemum Festival is one of the four traditional Chinese ancestor festivals, the ancient folk tradition of ancestor worship and pray for blessings. The traditional custom of ancestor worship is still prevalent in the Lingnan area, where people hold ancestor worship activities on the Chrysanthemum Festival every year. Whether it is ancestor worship activities or ascending to a high altitude to look into the distance, its most fundamental role is to enhance people's sense of cultural identity and strengthen the cohesion of the family and society. In traditional customs, Qingming is the "Spring Festival" and Chongyang is the "Autumn Festival". The traditional custom of ancestor worship at Chung Yeung extends to the present day.

2. Chrysanthemum Appreciation: On the day of Chung Yeung, there has always been the custom of appreciating chrysanthemums, which is why it is also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival in ancient times. The custom of chrysanthemum appreciation originates from chrysanthemum culture. Chrysanthemum is a natural flower, and because of its colorful and frosty blossoms, chrysanthemum culture has been formed to appreciate chrysanthemum and praise chrysanthemum. Since the Three Kingdoms, Wei and Jin Dynasties, it has become fashionable to gather and drink wine at the Chrysanthemum Festival, and to enjoy chrysanthemums and write poems. In ancient Chinese custom, chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity. Chrysanthemum is the flower of longevity, and it is also the symbol of the people's praise for overcoming frost and unyielding.

3, the resignation of the green: the ancients long will be Chongyang and on the Si (or Qingming) as the corresponding spring and autumn festivals. If the last six is people spend a long winter out of the room after the festival, then the Chung Yeung is about in the autumn cold to the new, people are about to live in seclusion when the ceremonial significance of the autumn tour, so the folk have the Qingming Festival "trekking", the Chung Yeung Festival "resignation of the green" custom.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Chongyang