Introduction to the Origin and Customs of Chongyang Festival

The Chongyang Festival on the ninth day of the ninth month is also known as the ? Chongjiu Festival? or? The old man festival? , is a traditional festival in our country, so do you know what is the origin of Chongyang Festival? Follow me below to see it.

Origin of Chongyang Festival

Chongyang Festival, originated in the Warring States period, was originally a day of joy. The ancients categorized all things in heaven and earth into yin and yang, with yin representing darkness and yang representing light and vitality. Odd numbers are yang and even numbers are yin. Nine is an odd number and therefore belongs to yang. On the ninth day of the ninth month of September, the sun and the moon coincide with nine, and the two yangs coincide with each other, so it is called ? Chongyang?

Our people have always had a special feeling for the Chongyang Festival, Tang poetry and Song lyrics have a lot of congratulations on Chongyang, chrysanthemum masterpieces. For example, the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei's "September 9th Memories of Shandong Brothers": ? I am a stranger in a foreign land, and I miss my relatives twice as much at festivals. I know from afar where my brothers are climbing up to the top of the mountain, and I am not sure if I am alone in the country. Li Bai's "The Immediate Events of September 10th": "Yesterday, I climbed up to the heights, and now I am going to climb up again. Yesterday, I climbed up to the high altitude, but today I raise my goblet again. The chrysanthemums are too bitter to be used in these two suns.

Traditional Foods for the Chrysanthemum Festival

1, eat Chrysanthemum Cake

According to historical records, the Chrysanthemum Cake is also known as the Flower Cake, the Chrysanthemum Cake, the five-color cake, the system has no fixed method, more random. September 9 when the sky is bright, with a piece of cake on the forehead of the children, the mouth read the words, wishing the children all things high, is the ancient September for the cake's original intention.

Tasteful Chrysanthemum cake to be made into nine layers, like a pagoda, the top is also made into two small sheep, in line with the meaning of Chrysanthemum (sheep). Some also inserted a small red paper flag on the cake, and light candles. This is probably with? Lighting? ,? Eat cake? Instead of? The meaning of this is to replace the cornelian with a small red paper flag. meaning, with small red paper flags instead of dogwood. Today's Chrysanthemum cake, still no fixed varieties, around the Chrysanthemum Festival to eat the fluffy cakes are called Chrysanthemum cake.

2, chrysanthemum and drink chrysanthemum wine

Chrysanthemum Festival is the golden autumn of the year, chrysanthemums in full bloom, according to legend, chrysanthemum and chrysanthemum wine, originated in the Jin Dynasty great poet Tao Yuanming. Tao Yuanming was famous for his hermitage, poetry, wine and chrysanthemums; later generations followed his example, and the custom of chrysanthemum-appreciation at the Chrysanthemum Festival came into being.

In the old days, the literati also combined chrysanthemum appreciation with feasting to get closer to Tao Yuanming. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the capital city of Kaifeng, the chrysanthemum appreciation style prevailed, and the chrysanthemums at that time had many varieties, in a variety of colors and shapes. The folk also called the ninth month of the lunar calendar? Chrysanthemum Month

3, crab

In some parts of China, there is a custom of eating crab on the Chongyang Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed, the north of the crab is fat. Said Chung Yeung crab most beautiful has two meanings, one is before and after the Chung Yeung Festival, crab meat, crab meat is delicious, crab yellow fat; two is Chung Yeung Festival is a filial piety festival, the day gradually cooled down, to prepare a set of warm clothes for elderly parents, sent a few fresh Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, rushed a cup of warm ginger tea, so that the old man warm and warm over the fall and winter.

4, chestnut cake

Beijing's snacks there are two is dedicated to the Chung Yeung Festival to eat, one for the flower cake, a chestnut cake. Chestnut cake is made from chestnut paste.

It is the practice of raw chestnuts peeled and steamed rotten pounded into the mud, and ready to cut a large piece of Beijing cake and chenggongsha filling, 200 grams of chestnut mud divided into three parts, with a spread for the bottom layer, and then lay a layer of Beijing cake slices, and then a smooth in the Beijing cake slices, and then wipe a layer of chenggongsha filling, and then the last part of the chestnut mud wiped in the top layer, the top with a cut into small rhombus shaped Beijing cake slices and fine prune threads spelling pattern, it became a! The top, middle and bottom of the chestnut cake are yellow with red and brown colors in the middle. To eat, pour sugar sauce made from white sugar and sugar cinnamon on top.

The story of the Chung Yeung Festival history

Once there was a farmer called Ah Niu, his father died when he was seven years old, his mother was too sad and cried her eyes out, in order to cure his mother's eyes, Ah Niu did to do the side of the wealthy do to open up the farmland, and one night, Ah Niu dreamed that there was a girl and he said that there is a smallpox swings in the Canal, ten miles to the west, and when the first nine days of September, the swings of the smallpox swings, and the swings of the first nine days of September, the swings of the first nine days of the year. One night, Ah Niu dreamed that a girl said to him that there was a smallpox swing ten miles to the west of the canal, and that a white chrysanthemum bloomed in the swing on the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth month of the ninth lunar month, and that this chrysanthemum could cure his mother's eye disease. Later, Ah Niu began to plant chrysanthemums, and people called the day of the ninth day of the ninth month of September the Chrysanthemum Festival, which led to the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine and so on.