Chung Yeung Festival Opening and Closing Remarks

Opening Remarks for Chongyang Festival: Dear friends, Hello everyone! Today is the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, is the traditional festival of our Chinese nation - Chongyang Festival; Conclusion: Although the Chongyang Festival is over, but our love and respect for the elderly will never end, I hope that you can be more concerned about the elderly around you in your daily life, more companionship with them, and more to talk to them and fulfill their filial piety.

Chiyang Festival, is a traditional Chinese folk festival, the date of the first nine days of September in the annual lunar calendar, "nine" number in the "I Ching" for the number of yang, "nine" two yang number of heavy, so that " Chongyang"; because the sun and the moon are nine, so it is also known as "heavy nine", nine to the true, a yuan began, the ancients believed that the nine suns are auspicious days.

Ancient folk in the Chongyang Festival have climbed up to pray for blessings, worship God and ancestors and feasts to pray for life, etc., inherited, and added the connotation of respect for the elderly, climb up to enjoy the autumn and thanksgiving to respect for the elderly is today's Chongyang Festival activities of the two important themes.

Folk Customs

1, climb up

Customs of the Chongyang Festival has a long history, the ancient folk in the festival of the Chongyang Festival has the custom of climbing up, so the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Festival of the heights!

The Chongyang Festival custom of climbing high in ancient times, so the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Festival of climbing high", climbing high "quit the green" is also derived from the nature of the festival, the Chongyang Festival climbing "quit the green" and the ancients in the spring in March, "trekking" corresponds to the spring. The first is the "Battle of the Bulge", which is the first of its kind in China.

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 casual, September 9 when the sky is bright, to piece of cake on the children's forehead, the mouth recited the words, wishing the children a hundred things are all high, it is the ancient people in September for the cake of the intention, the Chung Yeung cake should be made into a nine-layer, like a pagoda, the top is also made into two lambs in line with the Chung Yeung (goats) The meaning of.