What is the legend of the custom of ascending the heights of the Chongyang Festival?

The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, is another major traditional festival in the fall of our country - the Chongyang Festival, because the main festival customs, is to ascend to see the distance, so the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Festival of the heights".

Ancient people pay attention to symmetry and balance in all things, September 9th Chongyang Festival, and March 3rd on the water has been relative to the festival, a spring and autumn, a mountain and a water, interesting, for the generations of writers and artists to provide a lot of poems and songs, but also to today's people left close to the nature of a reason.

There are three legends about the Chongyang Festival ascent more widely circulated, but the other customs of the Chongyang Festival is quite a lot, by the way, the introduction of the two Chongyang Festival customs , the following with me to look at it:

One,? The legend of the Chung Yeung Festival?

? The first one is that Huanjing got rid of the plague?

The custom of ascending the heights on the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth month of the lunar calendar comes from a Taoist legend. The legend goes that during the Eastern Han Dynasty, a rural boy named Huan Jing from Ru Nan County had two parents and a wife and children. The family is not rich, but the day is also not bad. Who knows the plague on both sides of the Ru River, families are sick, corpses everywhere. This year, Huan Jing's parents also died of illness.

When Huanjing was a child, he heard his elders say, "There is a plague demon living in the River Ru, and every year it comes to the earth and brings plague. Huanjing was determined to learn how to fight the plague and rid the people of the plague. Hearing that a great immortal named Fei Changfang lived in the mountains in the southeast, he packed his bags and set off to the mountains to learn from his master.

Fei Changfang gave Huanjing a demonic Green Dragon Sword, and Huanjing practiced hard.

When Huanjing was practicing his sword, Fei Changfang said, "On September 9 this year, the plague demon of the River Ru will come out again, so go back to your hometown to get rid of the harm for the people. I'll give you a bag of cornelian cherry leaves and a bottle of chrysanthemum wine, so that your hometown fathers and mothers can ascend the heights to avoid the disaster." After the immortal master said that, he pointed with his hand, and an immortal crane flew in with its wings spreading and landed in front of Huanjing. Huanjing straddled the crane and flew toward Ru Nan.

Returning to his hometown, Huanjing summoned the townspeople to relay the words of the immortal. On the ninth day of the ninth month, he led the townspeople up a nearby mountain, and each person took a cornelian leaf with him, so that the plague demon would not dare to come near him. He also made each person drink a sip of chrysanthemum, so that he would not contract the disease of plague. After arranging the townspeople, Huanjing returned home with the Demon Busting Green Dragon Sword, sat alone in the house, and waited for the plague demon to come to engage in battle to lower the demon.

A short while later, only to hear the roar of the Ru River, strange winds swirling up. The plague demon out of the water to walk ashore, through the village, walking thousands of strings ten thousand households also did not see a person, suddenly looked up to see the people are in the high mountain gathering. Plague Devil scampered to the bottom of the mountain, only to feel the wine gas pungent, cornelian flush lungs, do not dare to approach the mountain, and turn back to the village to go. Seeing a man sitting in the house, he roared and pounced forward. This person is Huan Jing, he danced sword to meet the battle, fight a few rounds, the plague demon battle him but, pulling his legs and run. Huanjing "whoosh" throws the Demon Green Dragon Sword, only to see the sword flashing cold light to the plague demon chase, through the heart through the lungs of the plague demon stabbed to the ground.

After that, the people on both sides of the Ru River were no longer victimized by the plague. People took the ninth day of the ninth month to ascend the heights to avoid disasters, Huanjing sword stabbed the plague of the devil, the father passed on to his son, the son passed on to his grandchildren, and has been passed on to the present day, which is the origin of the custom of ascending the heights on the ninth day of the ninth month.

? The second part of the legend: the worship of the god of the mountain?

The origin of the Chongyang Mountain Climbing was the ancient worship of the mountain gods, which could save people from disasters.

The ancients believed that "nine for the old Yang, Yang will change", September 9, the month, the day are the number of the old Yang, inauspicious. Therefore, the derivation of a series of activities to avoid bad luck and seek longevity (here is not as Cao Pi, Emperor of the Wei Dynasty, called "nine" for "long-lasting" number. This is the view of Ming Shieh Zhaozhuang in "Five Miscellaneous Chops"). Legend has it that people had to travel to the mountains to avoid disasters on the days of the Chongyang Festival, when "Yangji is bound to change". Initially, people had to worship the mountain gods for peace and good luck, and then gradually evolved into the custom of ascending the mountain.

? The first is to make the first step in the process.

Legend has it that in ancient times, the fall harvest was over, and there was not much work to be done, so farmers were relatively free. And this time is the mountain wild fruits, herbs and other plants of the ripe season, so farmers have to go to the mountains to collect wild fruits, herbs and plant raw materials for the side industry, and the collection of such activities on the mountain called "small autumn harvest. The custom of ascending the mountain on the ninth day of the ninth month has evolved from this.

The second? Chongyang Festival customs?

? The first is to release the paper kite, which is the most common type of kite in the world.

Flying paper kites is one of the main customs of Chongyang Festival in the south. The folk festival of Chung Yeung is mainly characterized by flying paper kites (kites). Guangxu "Huizhou Prefecture Zhi" also recorded. In the folk tradition, in addition to ascending the heights, flying paper kites is also a feature of the Chongyang Festival. As to why people want to fly paper kites (kites) in the Chung Yeung, in addition to the Chung Yeung sky high clouds, light wind and sunshine, paper kites can easily ride the wind on the climatic reasons, there are also some between the witch yarrow between the argument, in the uncensored quite interesting.

According to legend, in the Chung Yeung when the paper kite is in order to "put the bad luck", the paper kite flying higher and farther away, the bad luck is also flying far away, and even more, but also special will break the line, so that the kite disappeared in the clouds outside the sky. Another kind of explanation is that the Chung Yeung release paper kite is "put auspicious", "put fortune", the paper kite fly the better, the more intense the fortune, the paper kite not only can't break the line, but also do everything possible to protect it, because if the line breaks, the If the silk thread is broken, the "good luck" and "good fortune" will also float away.

? Chongyang Festival custom No. 2: sunshine autumn?

"Sunshine Autumn" is a typical agricultural phenomenon, with strong regional characteristics. In some places, the sunbathing season begins on the Chongyang Festival every year, and grand sunbathing festivals are held.

The Chrysanthemum Festival is the best time to enjoy autumn, and some mountain villages in southern China have retained the characteristics of "sunbathing". The "sunshine autumn" is a typical agricultural phenomenon, villagers in mountainous areas, due to the complex terrain, the village flat land is very little, so they have to use the front and back of the house and their own windowsill roof racks sun, hanging sun crops.

For people living in mountainous areas, where the terrain is very complex, even if we rely on the village, flat land is very little, drying crops, then, can only make full use of the front of the house, or their own home windowsill, as well as the roof and so on these places, for a long time, naturally, the formation of a very traditional farming phenomenon. Generally speaking, the Chongyang Festival sunshine autumn refers to the villagers drying crops, this special life scene and way. Later, under the works of photographers and painters, sunbathing in autumn became a rich source of material for them, and they also titled this agricultural activity with a poetic name, that is, sunbathing in autumn.

What needs to be reminded, however, is that the autumn of sunbathing in autumn does not refer to autumn, but to the harvest of fruits and crops, in fact, the drying of this traditional agricultural phenomenon is not only in the fall, but throughout the year there is actually such a situation. Only the fall is the season of harvest, crop variety is more, sunshine autumn range and scale, are more rich huge, so more attract people's attention just.

In ancient times, there are September 9 for the old sun, the earth rises, the weather declines, the ancient people in order to avoid contact with the evil, so it is in the nine days to avoid the evil this day. Chrysanthemum climbing has two major symbols, one is to climb high to ward off evil spirits, and the second is to climb the mountain to pray for blessings.