The custom and time of Double Ninth Festival

Double Ninth Festival is a traditional folk festival in China, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. The number of "Nine" is a positive number in the Book of Changes, and the two positive numbers of "Nine Nine" are heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; It is also called "Double Ninth Festival", because both the date and the month conform to nine. 99 returns to the original, starting with one yuan, so the ancients thought that 99 Chongyang was an auspicious day. So, do you know the custom of Double Ninth Festival?

1, flying kites is one of the main customs of the Double Ninth Festival in the south. As for why people fly paper kites (kites) on the Double Ninth Festival, there is another saying that flying paper kites on the Double Ninth Festival is "auspicious" and "blessed". Except for the climatic reasons of high sky and light clouds, the wind is light and kites are easy to ride. The better the kite flies, the more blessed it is. People who fly kites can not only break the silk thread, but also try their best to protect it, because if it is a silk thread.

2. Eating Chongyang cake is associated with mountain climbing, and there is a custom of eating Chongyang cake. Chongyang Cake, also known as Flower Cake or Chongyang Flower Cake, is a traditional festival cake in China. As the name implies, it is the Double Ninth Festival in September in the summer calendar. Some people think that Chongyang cake originated from the custom of climbing mountains on the Double Ninth Festival. Because Gaohe cake is homophonic, as a holiday food, it was originally intended to celebrate the harvest of autumn grain and enjoy tasting new grain. After that, the people had the auspicious meaning of climbing the mountain to eat cakes and moving step by step. Eating cakes on the Double Ninth Festival symbolizes climbing the mountain step by step and has unique significance.

3. The Double Ninth Festival is the best time to enjoy autumn, and some mountain villages in the south of China still retain the characteristics of "basking in autumn". Going to the countryside to appreciate the folk customs and watch the autumn sun has become a fashion in rural tourism. "Sunbathing in autumn" is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon with strong regional characteristics. Villagers living in mountainous areas such as Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui and Jiangxi. It has become a traditional agricultural custom to use the roof in front of the house and the window sill to hang crops. This special lifestyle and scene of villagers drying crops has gradually become the material pursued and created by painters and photographers, and created a poetic name "drying autumn".

The custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival has a long history. In ancient times, there was the custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival, so it was also called "Climbing Festival". The climbing custom of Chongyang originated from the climate characteristics at this time and the worship of mountains by the ancients. Climbing is also a solar term originated from nature, and climbing on the Double Ninth Festival corresponds to the spring outing of ancient people in spring and March. There is no uniform regulation on the place of climbing, and the place of climbing is generally divided into mountain climbing, building climbing or platform climbing. The custom of climbing mountains has four origins: first, the ancients worshipped mountains; Second, it comes from the climate of "clearing the air, raising the turbidity and sinking the gas"; Thirdly, it stems from the "resignation" of climbing; The fourth is from the legend of "climbing mountains to avoid disasters".

5. Inserting Evodia rutaecarpa into Cornus officinalis is an important symbol of Double Ninth Festival. The ancients thought that inserting Evodia rutaecarpa on this day could take refuge and eliminate disasters. The custom of inserting Evodia rutaecarpa on the Double Ninth Festival was very popular as early as the Tang Dynasty. People either hang Cornus officinalis on their arms, or put it inside as a sachet, or wear it on their heads. Most people who wear dogwood are women or children, and men in some places also wear dogwood.

The above is the custom and time I know about the Double Ninth Festival. Friends, what other customs do you know?