What is the festival of "Alone in a Strange Land for a Strange Guest"?

Alone in a Strange Land for a Strange Guest depicts the Chongyang Festival.

"I am a stranger in a strange land, and I miss my relatives twice as much at festivals. I know from afar where my brothers are climbing up to the top, and there are fewer dogwoods to be found." The Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei's song "September 9 Memories of Shandong Brothers" sums up the homesickness of the Chung Yeung Festival.

The Chrysanthemum Festival is one of China's traditional festivals, celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. As the word "jiu jiu" harmonizes with "jiu jiu", the ancients offered sacrifices to their ancestors and carried out activities to honor the elderly at this time. Drinking chrysanthemum wine and eating Chrysanthemum Cake are also customs that have been passed down for a long time. Chrysanthemum Festival is also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival because it has always been a custom to enjoy chrysanthemums. In the ninth month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as the Chrysanthemum Month, the festival organizes a chrysanthemum conference, where crowds of people from all over the city go to enjoy chrysanthemums. Since the Three Kingdoms, Wei and Jin dynasties, it has become fashionable to gather and drink wine, enjoy chrysanthemums and write poems on Chrysanthemums.

The origin of the Chongyang Festival.

The origin of the Chongyang Festival can be traced back to ancient times. Legend has it that Chongyang was the day that Emperor Yuandi attained enlightenment. The first surviving written record of Chongyang customary activities can be found in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals in the Jiqiu Ji: "(September) ordered the family to slaughter, agricultural preparations for the harvest, the five kinds of key. The collection of the Emperor's books was hidden in the sacred storehouse, and was honored with respect and order. It is also the day, the big feast emperor, taste sacrifice, tell ready in the son of heaven." It can be seen that there were already in September when the fall harvest of crops sacrificed to the emperor, ancestor worship, in order to thank the emperor, the ancestors of the activities of grace.