What are the customs of the Double Ninth Festival?

The Double Ninth Festival, also known as Denggao Festival, Double Ninth Festival, September 9th Festival, cornus Festival and Chrysanthemum Festival, is a traditional festival of the Han nationality. Because it falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, it is also called the Double Ninth Festival. So what are the customs of the Double Ninth Festival?

1. Climbing the mountain

There is a custom of climbing the mountain at the Double Ninth Festival. This custom in the Han dynasty came from the story that Huanjing, a native of Runan, climbed the mountain on September 9 to avoid disaster. Now, climbing mountains is not only to avoid disasters, but also has become a colorful amateur life.

2. Drink chrysanthemum wine

The Double Ninth Festival is the best time to enjoy autumn, and some mountain villages in southern China have retained the characteristics of "basking in autumn". Going to the countryside to enjoy folk customs and watch the autumn sun has become a fashion in rural tourism. This special lifestyle and scene of villagers drying crops has gradually become the material for painters and photographers to pursue and create, and has created a poetic name of "drying autumn".

3. Chrysanthemum viewing

The Double Ninth Festival is the time when chrysanthemums are in full bloom, which is the best time to enjoy chrysanthemums. China is the hometown of chrysanthemum, which is also known as the flower of longevity. Seeing chrysanthemums on the Double Ninth Festival means praying for longevity and prolonging life. Therefore, chrysanthemums are also called "longevity customers". It is said that the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums on the Double Ninth Festival originated from Tao Yuanming, a great poet in the Jin Dynasty.

4. Insert dogwood

The ancient people also adopted the custom of inserting dogwood. Cornus has a strong fragrance, which has the functions of expelling insects and dampness, expelling pathogenic wind, eliminating food stagnation and treating cold and heat. People think that the ninth day of September is also a day of disaster, so people like to wear cornus to ward off evil spirits and seek good luck. Therefore, cornus is also known as "the evil spirits".

5. Eat Double Ninth Cake

Later generations still have the habit of eating Double Ninth Cake on Double Ninth Festival. Chongyang cake is also called "flower cake", because there is no mountain where there is no height to climb, and some people think of eating cake from climbing. Eating cakes instead of climbing means rising step by step. Because it is specially eaten in Chongyang, it is named "Chongyang cake".

6. Respect for the elderly

Jiujiu Chongyang, which is homophonic with "Jiujiu", is naturally easy to be endowed with the meaning of long life, and people began to hold banquets at this time in the Western Han Dynasty. In 1989, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month was designated as the Day for the Elderly, which advocated the whole society to establish an atmosphere of respecting, respecting, loving and helping the elderly. This can be said to be a new manifestation of the Double Ninth Festival in China in the new era, which has shifted the significance of the Double Ninth Festival from ancestors to modern people and from history to the present.

on this day, you are busy with your life, and it's time to take a short rest. A phone call, a dinner, and a wonderful time with the elderly and family. Don't wait until the past is gone, then you know you should cherish it.