What festival is September 9th? What are the customs?

September 9th is a traditional festival in China, the Double Ninth Festival.

The Double Ninth Festival is almost the last and most important traditional festival in a year. Together with New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Zhongyuan Festival, it is also called the four traditional ancestor worship festivals in China. This shows the important position of the Double Ninth Festival in the eyes of the ancients.

China belonged to an agricultural society in ancient times, and its agricultural civilization was a form of civilization that attached great importance to the experience of ancestors, because it had to rely on the experience summarized by predecessors and the wisdom left by ancestors to cultivate, thus forming a kind of? Cultural psychology of ancestor worship. The ancient people in China showed infinite respect for their ancestors and attached great importance to sacrifice, all of which came from the root of this civilization.

Since ancestor worship is so important, the Double Ninth Festival can be listed as one of the "four ancestor worship festivals", which shows the high status and heavy weight of this festival.

Therefore, the first festival theme of the Double Ninth Festival is "Ancestor Festival", which is a festival where wanderers return home from dust and the whole people worship their ancestors.

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On the ninth day of September, the homonym of "99" is "Jiujiu", which has a long-lasting meaning, so people carry out activities to respect and love the elderly on the Double Ninth Festival. Respecting the elderly on the Double Ninth Festival can best reflect the simple natural morality unique to the ancients.

In ancient times, when crops were harvested in September, people would offer sacrifices to heaven and ancestors to express their gratitude and reverence for heaven, earth and ancestors. Nowadays, some places continue the traditional ritual system of ancestor worship and strictly abide by the custom of "autumn sacrifice". The tradition of "respecting the elderly" has not only been preserved, but also carried forward by contemporary people.

Refer to the above? People's Network-What is the Double Ninth Festival?