What is the traditional festival on September 9th?

The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival. Double Ninth Festival is also called "Double Ninth Festival" and "Old People's Festival" because in the ancient Book of Changes, "six" is defined as the yin number and "nine" as the yang number. On September 9th, the sun and the moon meet and the two are in the same phase, so it is called Double Ninth Festival, which is also called Double Ninth Festival. The ancients thought it was an auspicious day to celebrate and began to celebrate this festival very early. The activities to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival are colorful and romantic, which generally include traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high into the distance, watching chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods all over the place, eating double ninth festival cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities. Double Ninth Festival, because it is homophonic with "for a long time", and nine is the largest number in numbers, has the meaning of long life. Moreover, autumn is also the golden season for a year's harvest, and the Double Ninth Festival has far-reaching implications. People have always had special feelings for this festival. There are many excellent poems in Tang poetry and Song poetry to congratulate Double Ninth Festival and chant chrysanthemums.

The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival that combines various folk customs. At the same time, unlike the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, it is unique to the Han people.

The Double Ninth Festival is a year-old festival. In China's Lunar New Year's Season, there are seven repeated numbers, such as the first month (Spring Festival), February 2nd, March 3rd, May 5th (Dragon Boat Festival), June 6th, July 7th (Tanabata) and September 9th, which have become custom festivals. On September 9, the sun and the moon merged with each other, so it occupied an important position in the age of 2, and it was the most admired mysterious number in faith.

firstly, there is the custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival. In September, the sky is crisp and crisp. In this season, climbing from afar can achieve the purpose of relaxing, keeping fit and getting rid of diseases. The custom of eating Chongyang cake is associated with climbing. Gaohe cake is homophonic. As a holiday food, it was originally intended to celebrate the harvest of autumn grain and enjoy tasting new grain. Later, people had the auspicious meaning of climbing high to eat cake and taking step by step.

On Double Ninth Festival, there has always been the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums, so it is also called Chrysanthemum Festival in ancient times. September of the lunar calendar is commonly known as Chrysanthemum Moon, and a chrysanthemum meeting is held on festivals, and people from the whole city go to the meeting to enjoy chrysanthemums. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the Three Kingdoms, it has become fashionable for Chongyang to get together for drinking and enjoying chrysanthemums and poems. In the ancient customs of Han nationality, chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity. In ancient times, the custom of inserting Evodia rutaecarpa was popular, so it was also called cornus Festival. Cornus, as a medicine, can make wine to keep fit and get rid of diseases.

The Double Ninth Festival was formed as early as the Warring States Period. In the Tang Dynasty, Double Ninth Festival was officially designated as a folk festival, and it has been followed from generation to generation since then.

In the folk concept, Double Ninth Festival, because it has the same sound as "Jiujiu", contains the meaning of long life, health and longevity. In 1989, China designated the ninth day of the ninth lunar month as the Day for the Elderly, and advocated the whole society to establish the atmosphere of respecting, loving and helping the elderly. The Double Ninth Festival has a new meaning.

the origin of the Double Ninth Festival

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The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival. Because in the ancient Book of Changes, "six" is defined as the yin number and "nine" as the yang number, on September 9, the sun and the moon are combined with yang, and the two nine are heavy, so it is called Chongyang, also called Double Ninth. The name of "Double Ninth Festival" was recorded in the Three Kingdoms period. According to Cao Pi's "Nine Days and the Book of Zhong Yao", "The year is coming to the month, and suddenly it is September 9. Nine is the number of yang, and the sun and the moon are in harmony. It is well-known and thinks that it is suitable for a long time, so it is a feast. "

The Double Ninth Festival is a festival with a long history. Due to its long history, the formation of the festival is not easy to study clearly. Therefore, there are different opinions about the origin of the Double Ninth Festival:

First,

The origin of Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. Ji Qiu Ji in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals says: "In September, the family was ordered to slaughter, and the farming was prepared for harvest, and five important things were cited. The Tibetan emperor's book is collected in the sacred warehouse, and it is only respectful. " "It's a day, a great emperor, and I'll taste the sacrifice and tell it to the son of heaven." It can be seen that at that time, there were activities of offering sacrifices to the emperor and ancestors when the crops were harvested in autumn and September to thank the emperor and ancestors for their kindness.

In the Han Dynasty, Jia Peilan, a court official who recorded the Western Han Dynasty in Miscellanies of Xijing, said: "On September 9th, Pei cornus ate loose bait and drank chrysanthemum wine, and the clouds made people live longer." According to legend, since then, there has been a custom of seeking longevity on the Double Ninth Festival. This is influenced by the ancient wizards (later Taoist) who pursued immortality and collected drugs to take. At the same time, there are also large-scale banquet activities, which developed from the banquet of Qingfeng Harvest in the pre-Qin period. "The Chronicle of Jingchu's Age" says: "On September 9th, the four people joined together for a wild banquet." Duke Du of Sui paid attention to the cloud: "The banquet on September 9, I don't know when it originated, but it hasn't changed since it was stationed in Song Dynasty." Longevity and feasting constitute the foundation of the Double Ninth Festival.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Pi, the Emperor of Wei Wen, wrote in The Book of Nine Days and Zhong You: "The New Year came to the moon, and then it suddenly returned to September 9. Nine is the number of yang, and the sun and the moon are in harmony. It is better than its name, thinking that it is suitable for a long time, so it is a feast. " It can be seen that the festival customs have been finalized. The theme of the Double Ninth Festival is to seek longevity, wear cornus, brew chrysanthemum wine, enjoy chrysanthemum, make wine and offer sacrifices to wine gods. After spreading to this day, it has added the connotation of respecting the elderly, which is more meaningful. In addition, there are climbing picnics and various games.

Secondly:

One of the archetypes of the Double Ninth Festival is the ancient ceremony of offering sacrifices to fire.

As the symbol of ancient seasonal stars, the "fire" (that is, Antares) retired in September, and Xia Xiaozheng called it "fire in September". The retirement of Great Mars not only made the ancients who had always regarded Great Mars as the symbol of seasonal production and seasonal life lose the coordinates of time, but also made the ancients who worshipped the fire feel inexplicable fear. Therefore, the dormancy of Vulcan means the arrival of a long east. Although the situation of ancient sacrificial rites is obscure, we can still find some traces of ancient customs from the instruments of the Double Ninth Festival in later generations. For example, in some parts of the south of the Yangtze River, there is a custom of worshipping the stove on Chongyang, which is the fire god at home, thus showing the clues of the ancient September sacrifice to the "fire". The ancients regarded Chongyang and Shangsi or cold food, September 9 and March 3 as the corresponding Spring and Autumn Festival. Han Liu Xin's Miscellaneous Notes on Xijing said: "Go to the third place in March, and double ninth in September, and make girls play games, and then climb high." The correspondence between Shangsi, cold food and Chongyang is based on the appearance of "fire".

With the progress of people's livelihood technology, people have a new understanding of time, and the "fire calendar" has given way to the general calendar. The ceremony of offering sacrifices to fire in September declined, but people still have special feelings about the natural climate changes caused by the decline of yang in September, so the ancient custom of climbing mountains and avoiding taboos still spread to the city, although the world has a new explanation.

Chongyang has become the landmark of the handover of Xia Dong in people's lives. If Shangsi and Cold Food are the Spring Festival when people go out for a swim after a long winter, then Chongyang is a ceremonial autumn outing when the autumn cold is coming and people are about to live in seclusion, so there are Shangsi's "outing" and Chongyang's "resignation". The custom of the Double Ninth Festival revolves around people's feelings in this season.