Chinese Traditional Festivals Archives - Chongyang Festival

Chinese Traditional Festivals Archives--Chongyang Festival

Festive Customs, Climbing High:

Climbing High refers to the custom of climbing high on the 9th day of the 9th lunar month. This activity has the characteristics of cultivating sentiment and exercising physical fitness, so it is a festive folk sports activity. In ancient times, the worship of the mountain gods, that the mountain gods can make people free from disasters, so people in the "yangji must change" in the days of the Chongyang, to climb the mountain to worship God for good luck.

Holiday customs, chrysanthemum viewing:

Since the Han Wei, Chung Yeung (September 9) have climbed the mountain, Pei Choying, drinking chrysanthemum wine custom. Tao Yuanming, a poet of the Jin Dynasty, especially loved chrysanthemums. In the Tang and Song dynasties, it became a custom to enjoy chrysanthemums at the Chrysanthemum Festival.

Customs of the festival, wear Laying hairpin chrysanthemum:

Paying Laying hairpin chrysanthemum, Chongyang Festival has the custom of Pemo, so it is also known as "Laying Festival". Joyoung is an important symbol of the Chongyang Festival Chongyang Festival people also like to wear chrysanthemum. The chrysanthemum is also known as the "life-extending guest".

Holiday customs, drinking chrysanthemum wine:

Chrysanthemum wine, in ancient times was regarded as the Chrysanthemum Festival must drink, to get rid of disasters and pray for good luck "good luck wine". In the Han Dynasty, there was a custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine on the 9th day of the Chrysanthemum Festival. The era of drinking chrysanthemum wine is generally believed to have come from Tao Yuanming's enjoyment of chrysanthemums and drinking wine in the Jin Dynasty. Southern Tang Daoluan "renewed Jin Yang Autumn" contains: a year of Chung Yeung, Tao Yuanming at home under the East Fence playing the qin to enjoy the chrysanthemums, suddenly want to drink: it happened to have a white messenger picking the burden to come to send the wine, so immediately drink, and wrote the famous poem "nine days of leisure". The method of brewing chrysanthemum wine is also recorded in the book "The Record of Searching for God" by Gan Bao of the Jin Dynasty.

Holiday customs, ancestor worship:

Chongyang Festival is one of the four traditional ancestor worship festivals in China, and there is a tradition of ancestor worship and praying for blessings in folklore. People will hold ancestor worship activities on the Chongyang Festival every year to pray for the blessings of the gods, and to promote the activities of honoring the elderly and passing on the culture of filial piety. The festival is held after the harvest to thank the ancestors for their kindness and to pray for their blessings, so the atmosphere is relaxed and happy, and there is no sadness like the "broken souls of pedestrians".

Holiday customs, flying paper kites:

Some people think that flying kites on the Chongyang Festival is "letting go of good luck" and "letting go of good fortune", so the kites flying on the Chongyang Festival are flying higher and higher, and the better the symbolism is, and you can't break the kite's silk threads in the process of flying the kites. If the threads are broken, the "good luck" and "good fortune" will float away. In some areas, it is believed that flying kites at the time of Chung Yeung is to "let go of bad luck". The higher the kite flies, the farther away, the bad luck is also far away, some people, in the kite flying time will also be burned off the line, so that the kite disappeared without a trace is good.