Can I go out at night on the Double Ninth Festival?

You can go out at night on the Double Ninth Festival.

The Double Ninth Festival is not a ghost festival, but it is no different from ordinary nights. Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival of Han nationality, which combines various folk customs. Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and looking far, enjoying chrysanthemums, planting dogwood all over the place, eating double ninth cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities.

Double Ninth Festival, because it is homophonic with "long", and nine is the largest number in the number, which means long life. Moreover, autumn is also the golden season of harvest in a year, and the Double Ninth Festival has far-reaching influence. People have always had special feelings for this festival. There are many excellent poems in Tang poetry and Song poetry to congratulate the Double Ninth Festival and chant chrysanthemums. Double Ninth Festival, also known as "stepping on autumn", is a traditional festival of Han nationality.

Folk custom of Double Ninth Festival

1, basking in autumn

The Double Ninth Festival is the best time to enjoy autumn, and some mountain villages in the south of China still retain the characteristics of "basking in autumn". Going to the countryside to appreciate the folk customs and watch the autumn sun has become a fashion in rural tourism. "Sunbathing in autumn" is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon with strong regional characteristics. 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.

2. ancestor worship

The Double Ninth Festival is one of the four traditional festivals of ancestor worship in China, and there is a tradition of ancestor worship and blessing in ancient times. The traditional custom of ancestor worship on the Double Ninth Festival is still popular in Lingnan area, and people hold ancestor worship activities on the Double Ninth Festival every year. Whether it's ancestor worship or farsightedness, its most fundamental function is to enhance people's cultural identity and strengthen the cohesion of family and society. In traditional customs, Tomb-Sweeping Day is the Spring Festival and the Double Ninth Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival. The traditional custom of ancestor worship in Chongyang Mountain continues to this day.

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