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It's September 9th again, so let's raise a glass of wine at a high altitude (2006-10-30 22:20:47)▼

The Chung Yeung Festival falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar each year, with the double ninths overlapping, and is therefore also known as the "ninth day of the ninth month". In ancient times, two, four, six, eight, ten for the number of yin, one, three, five, seven, nine for the number of yang, nine for the largest number of yang. The sun and the moon and Yang, the two nine overlap, the ancient book "I Ching" on the: "to Yang lines for nine." The two yang heavy, so also known as "heavy sun".

The Chongyang Festival comes from a Taoist myth. Legend has it that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ru Nan County, there is a rural young man called Huan Jing, parents are alive, wife and children a big family. Although the day is not good, half food and half grain can get by. Who knows the unfortunate thing came. Both sides of the Ru River caused a plague, families are sick, corpses all over the place no one buried. This year, Huan Jing's parents also died of illness.

When Huanjing was a child, he heard his elders say: "There is a plague demon living in the River Ru, and every year it comes out and walks on the earth. Wherever it went, it brought the plague with it. Huanjing was determined to learn from his masters, to fight the plague, and to rid the people of its evils. When he heard that there was a great immortal named Fei Changfang living in the southeast mountains, he packed up and traveled to the mountains to learn from his master. Fei Changfang gave Huanjing a Demon Busting Green Dragon Sword. Huanjing woke up early and went to bed late, wearing stars and moonlight, practicing day and night. In the blink of an eye is another year, that day Huanjing is practicing sword, Fei Changfang came to him and said: "This year, September 9, Ruhe plague demon will come out again. You should hurry back to your hometown to get rid of the plague for the people. I will give you a bag of cornelian cherry leaves and a bottle of chrysanthemum wine, so that your hometown fathers and mothers can ascend the heights to avoid the disaster." After the Immortal Weng said that, he pointed with his hand, and an immortal crane flew in with its wings spreading and landed in front of Huanjing. Huanjing straddled the crane and flew toward Ru Nan.

Huanjing returned to his hometown and gathered his folks. He told the people about the words of the Great Immortal. On the ninth day of the ninth month, he led his wife, children, townspeople and elders up a nearby mountain. The cornelian cherry leaves were distributed to each person, saying that if he carried it with him, the plague demon would not dare to come close to him. And the chrysanthemum wine poured out, each sip, said drink chrysanthemum wine, not infected with the plague disease. He put the townspeople arrangements, with his Demon Green Dragon Sword back to his home, sitting alone in the house, waiting for the plague when the devil came to fight the demon. Not long after, he heard the roar of the Ru River and the strange winds swirling up. The plague demon out of the water to walk on the shore, through the village, walking thousands of string ten thousand households do not see a person, suddenly looked up to see people are in the high mountain gathering. It scurried to the bottom of the mountain, only to feel the wine gas pungent, cornelian flush lungs, do not dare to come close to the mountain, and then turned back to the village. Only to see a man is sitting in the house. Then he roared and pounced forward. Huan Jing saw the plague demon pounced, hastily dance sword to meet the battle. After a few rounds of fighting, the plague demon could not defeat him and ran away. Huanjing "whoosh" sound of the Demon Green Dragon Sword thrown out, only to see the sword flashing cold light to the plague of the devil to chase, through the heart through the lungs of the plague of the devil to the ground. After that, the people on both sides of the Ru River, no longer be plagued by the devil. People put the ninth of September to climb high to avoid the plague, Huanjing sword stabbing the plague of the devil, the father passed on to his son, the son passed on to his grandson, and has been passed on to the present. The custom of ascending the heights on the ninth day of the ninth month to avoid the plague has been passed down year after year. Wu Jun, a native of Liang, recorded this in his book "Qi Harmony Records". Later, people regarded the custom of ascending the heights on the Chrysanthemum Festival as an activity to avoid disasters and calamities.

The origin of the Chongyang Festival can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In Qu Yuan's "A Journey to the Far East," he wrote: "The Chongyang Festival was held in the emperor's palace, and it was the first time that the festival was held in the city of Qingdao." The word "Chongyang" here refers to the day, not the festival. In the Han Dynasty, the custom of celebrating the Chongyang Festival gradually became popular. According to legend, when Mrs. Qi, the consort of Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of Han Dynasty, was murdered by Empress Lu, Jia, one of her former maidservants, was expelled from the palace and married to a poor man. Jia then brought the activity of Chung Yeung to the people. Jia told people that in the palace, on the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year, they would wear cornelian cherry, eat tent bait and drink chrysanthemum wine for longevity. From then on, the custom of Chongyang Festival spread among the people.

Cao Pi, the emperor of the Three Kingdoms period, in his book "Nine Days with Zhong Yao", has clearly written out the feast of the Chrysanthemum Festival: "The years go by and the months come and go, and then the ninth day of the ninth month. Nine is the number of Yang, and the sun and the moon should be, the custom of its name, think it is suitable for a long time, so to enjoy the feast will be high." Can be seen, the custom of Chongyang Festival in the literati at that time has been quite popular. By the time of the Wei, Jin and North and South Dynasties, Chongyang had been generally valued by the folk. The Jin Zhou Chu, "Records of Customs and Earth", recorded: "to Chongyang meeting, mountaineering and drinking, so-called Denggao will, also known as Cornucopia will." And "qi people moon order" said: "the day of the sun, will be cake wine to climb the high and distant, for the time of the banquet tour ornamental, in order to smooth the autumn Zhi. Wine must pick cornelian cherry to pan, both drunk and return." Jin Dynasty literati Tao Yuanming said in the preface to the poem "Nine Days of Idleness": "I live in idleness, love the name of the ninth day of the ninth day of the ninth day of the ninth month. Autumn chrysanthemums fill the garden, while holding the mash by and by, empty service of Jiuhua, send your mind to the words." Here both chrysanthemum and wine are mentioned. That in the Wei and Jin dynasties, Chongyang Day has been drinking wine, chrysanthemum viewing practices. By the Tang Dynasty, Chongyang was officially designated as a folk festival.

In the Song Dynasty, the Chongyang Festival was even more lively, and "Tokyo Dreaming Records" recorded the pomp and splendor of the Chongyang Festival in the Northern Song Dynasty at that time. To the Ming Dynasty, the September sunrise, the palace up and down to eat flower cake to celebrate, the emperor to personally to the mountain to climb, in order to smooth the autumn, this custom has been passed down to the Qing Dynasty.

"Nine sunny days", cloudy mountain clear, high and refreshing autumn, and at the time of the harvest season, orange red and orange, chestnut bloom pomegranate bloom, golden cinnamon fragrance, blooming yellow flowers, full of fruit, scenery meandering, is out of the best season for sightseeing. Therefore, Chongyang also has a lot of other names. Jin Dynasty, because the great poet Tao Yuanming likes to enjoy the chrysanthemum in the Chongyang, people also known as the "Chrysanthemum Festival" or "Golden Festival". North and South Dynasties, in the Jingchu area, people in this day, "the wild drinking feast", so some people also called it "Picnic Festival". Celebration of Chongyang Festival activities colorful and romantic, generally include trips to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and far away, viewing chrysanthemums, all the dogwood, eat Chongyang cake, drink chrysanthemum wine and other activities.

Customs of the Chrysanthemum Festival

The Chrysanthemum Festival, celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth month of the Lunar Calendar, is full of rich and interesting activities, such as climbing up to the top of a mountain, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine, eating chrysanthemum cakes, and inserting dogwoods, etc. The festival is held on the ninth day of the ninth month of the Lunar Calendar.

Denggao

In ancient times, folk in the Chung Yeung has the custom of ascending the heights, so the Chung Yeung Festival is also known as the "Festival of Ascending Heights". It is rumored that this custom began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, there were many poems written by literati, most of which were about the customs of the Chongyang Festival; Du Fu's "Ascending to the Heights" is a famous piece of writing about ascending to the heights of the Chongyang Festival.

Anciently, ascending the heights was not limited to September 9th. Qing people Zhao Yi's "new Yu Congkao" said: "Ascension is not only in September. Chang Li has 'people day south of the city to climb high' poem: 'Sui book - Yuan Hao biography': 'Emperor Wen on the 15th day of the first month and close ministers to climb high', is the people day and on the first year of the year all climb high carry on." It is just that the custom of ascending the heights on Chongyang is the most prevalent, and it has been continued.

The reason why the ascent has been passed down, it is because of this high and refreshing time in the fall, the ascent of the high and faraway, enjoy the chrysanthemum cornelian cherry, drinking wine and poetry, is a great benefit to the physical and mental health of the interesting things. This is the real reason why the custom of ascending the heights will continue for a long time. "The custom of ascending to the heights is the real reason why the custom of ascending to the heights has been continued for a long time. I know from afar where my brothers are climbing up to the top, and there are fewer dogwoods to be found." The Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei's poem "Remembering the Brothers of Shandong on the Ninth Day of the Ninth Month" expresses his longing for his relatives when he ascends to the heights on the Chrysanthemum Festival. Du Mu's "Ascending Mount Qishan on the Ninth Day" reads, "The geese flew in the autumn shadows of the river, and the guests carried their pots to Cuiwei. It is hard to meet people in the world and laugh at them, and chrysanthemums must be inserted all over their heads. But I will get drunk to honor the festivities, and I will not climb the mountain to hate the falling sun. This is the only way through the ages, why should Oxford be alone in his clothes." In this poem, the author in the Chongyang Festival day, just with a good friend, they climbed a high mountain, to the head full of chrysanthemums, drinking wine, reciting poems, so happy, the author also comforted friends do not have to shed tears, showing the author's festive mood, which is opposite to the tone of Wang Wei's poem. Look at Lu Zhaolin's "September 9 Xuanwushan travel overlook": "September 9 overlook the mountains and rivers, return to the heart of the return to look at the accumulation of wind and smoke. I am saddened by the sadness of the sky of the geese and wild geese." And Wang Bo's "Nine Days in Shuzhong": "On the ninth day of the ninth month, I look out over the township platform, and I send the guest a cup of wine to his hometown. The people are tired of the pain in the south, and the geese come from the north." These two "early Tang Four Jie" in the "two Jie" in the Chung Yeung Day poems made the same, both show the author in his hometown sadness. One of them climbed a high mountain, looked at his hometown, and sobbed uncontrollably. One looks in the direction of his hometown, "he sat in his hometown to send the guest cup", and puts his thoughts in the "wild geese" coming from the north, and this kind of sadness of not being able to return home has been completely released in the Chongyang Festival. The ancient people have a lot of poems on Chongyang, which is quite prominent in the seasonal customs and culture.

Eating Chrysanthemum Cake

According to historical records, the Chrysanthemum Cake is also known as the flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, five-color cake, the system is not fixed, more random. It is the main seasonal customary food of Chongyang Festival. September 9 when the sky is bright, with a piece of cake on the children's forehead, the mouth read the words, wishing the children all things high, is the ancient people in September to do the cake's original intention. The cake should be made into nine layers, like a pagoda, the top is also made into two small sheep, in line with the meaning of Chongyang (sheep). Some also inserted a small red paper flag on the cake, and light candles. This is probably the "light", "eat cake" instead of "high" meaning, with a small red paper flag instead of cornelian cherry. Today's Chongyang cake, there is still no fixed varieties, everywhere in the Chongyang Festival to eat the fluffy cakes are called Chongyang cake.

Song Dynasty poets wrote a lot of Chongyang cake. Visible, Chongyang cake in the Tang Dynasty began to have. And to the Song Dynasty has been generally popular in social life. Even the Jin people living in the north of the motherland in the Northern Song Dynasty, also imitated the custom of the Han people, at the Chongyang Festival to eat cake, called "Baoji cake".

So, why do you eat the cake on Chrysanthemum Day? Because not everyone can be in this day to celebrate the festival, for no high to climb, or the inability to climb high and too late to climb the high, the Chongyang cake to replace a little, because "cake", "high" two words harmonized. Some say there are other meanings, Ming Xie Zhaolan's "Five Miscellaneous Chopping Block" said: "Nine days when the sky is bright, with a piece of cake on the children's forehead, wishing that: 'I wish all things are high'. This is the meaning of the ancient people eat cake on the ninth day." The same is to take the "high" word harmony, but there is a good blessing.

The Chrysanthemum Festival also has the custom of holding a chela and enjoying chrysanthemums. When the chrysanthemums are in full bloom and the crabs are on the market, as Meng Haoran said, "When it comes to the Day of the Chrysanthemum, I will come back to the chrysanthemums." As Cao Xueqin wrote, Baoyu and others in the Grand View Garden are holding the crab, of course, is delightful. About eating crabs, "Dream of Red Mansions" thirty-eighth written to the Grand View Garden a crab feast, spend enough silver to the crops over a year.

Appreciate chrysanthemums and drink chrysanthemum wine

Chrysanthemums bloom at the time of the Chrysanthemum Festival, which is said to have originated with Tao Yuanming, a great poet of the Jin Dynasty. Tao Yuanming was famous for living in seclusion, famous for poetry, famous for wine, and famous for his love of chrysanthemums; later generations followed his example, and then there was the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums at the Chrysanthemum Festival. In the old days, the literati combined chrysanthemum-appreciation with banquets and drinks in order to get closer to Tao Yuanming. In Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, chrysanthemum appreciation was prevalent, and there were many varieties of chrysanthemums at that time.

Li Qingzhao, a famous female poet and lyricist, wrote in "Drunken Flower Shade", "The mist and clouds are worrying about the eternal day, and the Rui Brain pins the golden beasts. The festival and the sun, jade pillow gauze cupboard, midnight cool through. After the dusk, there is a dark fragrance filling the sleeves. Do not say not soul, curtain rolled west wind, people than yellow flowers thin!" Li Qingzhao's life is tragic, like such a talented woman, fate is so unfair to her, she spent twenty-eight years of happiness with her husband, Zhao Mingcheng, but unfortunately Zhao Mingcheng died early, let the disease took his life. After marrying a snob Zhang Ruzhou, in the domestic violence encounter, enduring inhuman suffering, before and after the two life disparity, so Li Qingzhao's emotions are the most rich, she likes to dream, because in the dream she can see her loving husband Zhao Mingcheng, a return to reality, she is very sad and miserable. On the day of Chung Yeung Festival, she was so sad that she couldn't sleep and drank chrysanthemum wine, and saw that she was thinner than a yellow flower, which showed that she was already very emaciated and lived in pain all the time.

The folk also call the ninth month of the lunar calendar "the month of chrysanthemums", and in the Chrysanthemum Festival, where chrysanthemums blossom in the frost, chrysanthemum viewing has become an important part of the festival. After the Qing Dynasty, chrysanthemum appreciation is especially prosperous, and is not limited to the ninth day of the ninth month, but is still the most prosperous before and after the Chrysanthemum Festival.

Chairman Mao's "Cai Sang Zi Chongyang" wrote: "Life is easy, God is hard to old, years and years of Chongyang, and now Chongyang, the yellow flowers of the battlefield is fragrant. Once a year the autumn wind is strong, not like the spring light, better than the spring light, lonesome river sky ten thousand miles of frost." This lyric depicts the prosperous scene of chrysanthemums blooming before and after the Chung Yeung Festival, and expresses the President's love and appreciation of the motherland's great rivers and mountains.

The chrysanthemums bloom in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, so they are called "nine flowers". In the old days, the rich and noble families arranged chrysanthemums in the shape of mountains and towers at the Chrysanthemum Festival, which were called "Nine Flowers Mountain" and "Nine Flowers Tower".

Wang Tao of the Qing Dynasty depicted the chrysanthemums outside the gate of Dui Xiu Hall in Shanghai's Yuyuan Garden in his book Yingpu Magazine: "The thin stones and mosses, and the curved corridors and small pavilions, were already feeling a sense of autumn. When I went around the lake and turned northeast, the place opened up, and I could see the chrysanthemums in the distance, which were all in front of my eyes. Follow the back of the railings into, then all the flowers, high and low sparse, lined up in front of the hall, Torreya a few Xiang curtains, ceramic pots and bamboo grids, all the state of extreme beauty, competing with each other."

Insert Cornus and Hairpin Chrysanthemums

Nine ascents, and not only to the feast, poetry and composition only, it still has other activities. These activities were combined and became the "Denggao Hui". Denggao will also be called "Cornucopia will", so it is also known as "Cornucopia Festival". The custom of inserting cornelian cherry on the Chongyang Festival was already common in the Tang Dynasty. Ancient people believed that in the Chongyang Festival this day insert cornelian cherry can take refuge from disasters; or wear in the arm, or make incense bags to put cornelian cherry inside to wear, there are also inserted in the head. Mostly women, children wear, some places, men also wear. Chrysanthemum Festival to wear cornelian cherry, in the Jin Dynasty Ge Hong "Western Scripture Miscellany" has been recorded. Besides wearing cornelian cherry, people also wear chrysanthemums on their heads. This was already the case in the Tang Dynasty and has been prevalent throughout the ages. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of Chongyang Festival in Beijing was to stick chrysanthemum branches and leaves on doors and windows to "lift up the evils and attract good luck". This is a variation of the head hairpin chrysanthemum. Song Dynasty, there will be colorful silk cut into cornelian cherry, chrysanthemum to give each other to wear.

Unique form of the festival

The Chongyang Festival in northern Shaanxi Province is the official harvest season, there is a song sung: "September 9 Chongyang, harvest ah ah ah harvest fall busy. Grain ah, surimi ah, on ah on the field." Shaanbei over Chongyang in the evening, the day is a full day of harvesting, playing field. At night, the moon over the treetops, people love to enjoy buckwheat boiled mutton, to eat dinner, people go out of their homes in twos and threes, climbed the nearby hills, lit a fire, talk about the sky and the earth, to be the chickens call before going home. Night hiking, many people are picking a few handfuls of wild chrysanthemums, go home and inserted in the daughter's head, in order to avoid the evil spirits.

PuXian in Fujian, people follow the old custom, to steam nine layers of Chongyang rice fruit, China's ancient times have Chongyang "food bait" custom, "bait" that is today's pastries, rice fruit and so on. Song Dynasty "Jade Candle BaoDian" cloud: "nine days of food bait, drink chrysanthemum wine, when the millet, broomcorn millet and harvest, because of the sticky rice flavor to touch the class to taste the new, and then become a habit." In the early Qing Dynasty, Putian poet Song Zuqian said in "Min Wine Song", "I was surprised to hear that the festival is near the Chung Yeung Festival, and I carried a basket with my delicate hands to pick up the wild fragrance. Jade mortar and pestle pounded into green powder wet, the pearls called Lang taste." In recent times, people have also converted the rice fruit into a very distinctive nine-fold rice fruit. High-quality late rice with water washing, soaking for two hours, fishing out and draining, mixed with water and ground into a thin pulp, add alum (dissolved in water) mixing, plus red plate sugar (mixed with water boiled into a thick liquid sugar), and then placed in a steamer in the pot, laying on a clean cooking cloth, and then divided into nine, scooped into the rice fruit syrup, steamed for a number of hours that is cooked out of the cage, the surface of the rice fruit smeared with peanut oil. This rice fruit in nine overlapping layers, can be uncovered, cut into diamond angles, four sides of the hierarchy, was translucent body, eaten sweet and soft to the mouth, and does not stick to the teeth, can be called the best gift to honor the elderly Chung Yeung food.

Masses in some places also have the opportunity to take advantage of the Chung Yeung mountaineering, sweeping ancestral tombs, commemorating the ancestors. Putian people Chanyang ancestor worship more than the Qingming Festival, so there is a custom to March for the small Qingming, the ninth for the big Qingming said. Due to the Putian coast, the ninth day of the ninth month is also the anniversary of Mazu's ascension to heaven, the townspeople go to the Mazu Temple in Meizhou or the ancestral shrine of the Queen of Heaven in the harbor, the Palace of Worship, to seek blessings.

The Chongyang Festival is designated as the Day of the Elderly

In the traditional concept of the Central Plains people, the double nine or the meaning of a long life, health and longevity, in 1989, China designated the ninth of September each year as the Day of the Elderly, the clever combination of tradition and modernity, and has become a festival of respect for the elderly, respect for the elderly, love for the elderly, and help for the elderly. The country's institutions, groups, streets, often at this time to organize the old people retired from work in the autumn tour to enjoy the scenery, or the water for fun, or mountaineering fitness, so that the body and mind are bathed in the embrace of nature; many families of the younger generation will also be assisting the elderly elders to the countryside activities or for the elderly to prepare a number of tasty food and drink. Everywhere to organize the elderly mountaineering autumn tour, broaden their horizons, exchange of feelings, exercise, and cultivate people to return to nature, love the motherland's great mountains and rivers of noble character.

This year's Chrysanthemum Festival, is also China's 18th Senior Citizens Day, two days ago, our reporter visited the city of Xi'an, more than 100 office workers, found that there are actually 40% of the office workers said that they did not know about Senior Citizen's Day, which really gives us the chills. Our young people today, only remember what the West Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, etc., but we have passed down the fine traditional Chinese holidays forgotten, which is really some of the cart before the horse, the suspicion of Handan. China's traditional culture is being eaten up by Western culture, which makes us feel worried. How to carry forward the traditional culture handed down by our ancestors, this is a major issue in front of us.