When was the Chongyang Festival made an official holiday

The Chongyang Festival was made an official holiday during the Tang Dynasty.

The Chongyang Festival, a traditional Chinese folk festival, falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year. The official designation of the Chongyang Festival as a holiday began during the Tang Dynasty. Since then, in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, every time on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the court and the people would celebrate the Chongyang Festival together and hold various activities during the festival. Many great poets of the Tang Dynasty, such as Wang Bo, Meng Haoran, Meng Haoran, Li Bai, Wang Wei and Du Fu, left famous poems about the Chongyang Festival.

The Chongyang Festival originated from the worship of heavenly phenomena and began in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished after the Tang Dynasty. According to the existing historical materials and evidence, the ancient times in the season of autumn harvest held in the sky, ancestor worship activities; the ancients in September when the harvest of crops sacrificed to the emperor, ancestor worship, in order to thank the emperor of the sky, ancestor grace activities, this is the Chung Yeung Festival as a fall harvest rituals and the existence of the original form. The Tang Dynasty was an important period in which traditional festival customs were kneaded and finalized, and the main part of them has been handed down to the present day.

Customs of the Chongyang Festival

1, climbing: the custom of climbing on the Chongyang Festival has a long history. Ancient folk custom in the Chongyang Festival, so the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Festival". Ascending the place, there is no uniform provisions, ascending to the place is roughly divided into ascending mountains, ascending buildings, or ascending platforms.

2, eat Chung Yeung cake: according to historical records, Chung Yeung cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, five-color cake, the system is not fixed, 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 people in September for the cake's original intention.

3, Chrysanthemum Appreciation: Chrysanthemum Day, there has always been a custom to appreciate chrysanthemums, so the ancient also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival. The custom of chrysanthemum appreciation originates from chrysanthemum culture. Chrysanthemum is a natural flower, and because of its colorful and frosty blossoms, chrysanthemum culture has been formed to appreciate chrysanthemum and praise chrysanthemum.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Chongyang Festival