China honor the elderly holiday?

"Au Jiu Festival" is also known as "Filial Piety Festival", "Back Nine Festival" and "Send the Poor Festival".

Since March 9, 2005 (the twenty-ninth day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar), the Fuzhou folk festival, which carries the connotation of this virtue, has been formally named the "Festival of Filial Piety and Obedience" by the local authorities.

Fuzhou City Civilization Office and other departments and local enterprises jointly initiated a series of "filial piety festival" activities in the city, and the day of the activities as the city's "filial piety festival". On this day, many local communities set up cauldrons to cook sweet congee on the street (which is a traditional practice in Fuzhou City's folklore of the "Arguing Nine Festival") and give it to every elderly person passing by for free. Many local young men and women responded positively to this call to set up a festival, have acted specifically for their parents or other elders to cook a bowl of porridge, a cup of honor; or for the father to pound the back, to help their mothers comb their hair ...... "filial piety festival" has now become the city of a permanent The city has now become a permanent local festival.

Filial Piety Festival

On the twenty-ninth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, every household uses glutinous rice and brown sugar to cook the Aojiu congee with jujubes, peanuts, cowpeas, sesame seeds, water chestnuts and other ingredients, which is used to worship ancestors and give gifts to relatives and friends. All married daughters, to send the congee back to their parents to honor their parents.

The source of the congee

Folklore varies: one says that according to legend, Meilian's mother was ferocious, and after her death, she was sent to hell to suffer. Meilian grew up, every day to send food to his mother, were eaten by the little ghosts, had to cook a bowl of color black porridge, the little ghosts do not dare to eat, so the name of the Au Jiu porridge, Meilian to send food for the day that is the Au Jiu Festival, filial piety festival.

One of the sources to send poor, Ming Dynasty scholar Xie Zhao system said: "Gao Yang's son, clothes, food mincemeat, died on the obscure day of the first month, the world as a mincemeat, abandoned broken and the streets and alleys, in addition to the poor ghosts."

The scholars of the Qing Dynasty were mostly in favor of this statement, Lin Zu-tao (Minzhong yearly singing〗poem: "According to legend, the nine Fangchen, each cooking syrup mixed with dates and hazelnuts. Sweep away the dust and cast all the filth, send him poor ghosts to receive the money god." The first nine days of the first month of the Min custom called on the ninth, nineteen called in the ninth, twenty-nine called the next nine or after the ninth, so it is also called after the nine festival. This custom is still popular in the folklore.

Significance

There are at least three points: First, through the act of filial piety so that people generally understand, "old as we are old and others old, young as we are young and others young," not only to treat their parents to give their own life and raise their own adults, but also to treat all the people around them, to take care of all the others in need of help! Secondly, the act of filial piety reflects the affection between relatives and can promote family harmony and social harmony; thirdly, by cultivating filial piety between generations, it helps the children and grandchildren of the later generation to develop loyalty to the family, selfless devotion to others, and responsibility to the cause and society.

Foreign "filial piety festival"

In the United States, there are two humane holidays: Mother's Day and Father's Day.