Where to take the elders to play during the Double Ninth Festival

Where to take the elders to play during the Double Ninth Festival

The Double Ninth Festival is approaching, and we have provided you with places suitable for taking the elders to travel during the Double Ninth Festival. Everyone is welcome to read and learn from it.

Fujian Wuyishan, Xiamen

Fujian is close to the sea and has a warm climate. This route is not too far apart and is not tiring. For those who love tea The elderly can look at the sea view and sip tea, which is very comfortable.

Tasting wine and appreciating poetry in Xinghua Village

Recommended reason: It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and passersby on the road want to lose their souls. When asking where the restaurant is, the shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village. ?Xinghua Village became famous because of Du Mu’s poem "Qingming". Countless literati and poets left their poems here. The wheel of history slowly rolled through this poetic land. The strong cultural heritage made Xinghua Village It has the reputation of "the best poetry village in the world". Celebrities, famous villages, famous wines and famous poems make this small village in Chizhou, Anhui full of unique charm. In late autumn, drinking wine and reading poems in Xinghua Village, thinking about ancient feelings and enjoying the blessings in front of you, will definitely bring unexpected joy to the elderly.

See Langshan after its application as a World Heritage Site

Reason for recommendation: Recently, Langshan in Hunan, Danxia Mountain in Guangdong, Chishui in Guizhou, Taining in Fujian, Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi, and Jianglang Mountain in Zhejiang were officially It was included in the World Heritage List and became the second World Natural Heritage Site in Hunan. Langshan Scenic Area covers an area of ??100 square kilometers and has more than 60 scenic spots. Six major scenic spots have been developed, including Bajiaozhai (ticket), Tianyi Lane, Pepper Peak, Fuyi River, Zixiadong, Bayinyan, etc. The beautiful and magical Langshan Mountain attracts everyone's attention with its majestic, unique, dangerous, beautiful, secluded and strange natural scenery.

Go to Lanzhou for the Autumn Chrysanthemum Feast

Reason for recommendation: Appreciating chrysanthemums during the Double Ninth Festival is an ancient custom in my country. During the Double Ninth Festival this year, there will be large-scale chrysanthemums in Kaifeng, Henan, Lanzhou, Gansu, and Xiangtan, Hunan. exhibition. Lanzhou is an important town on the Silk Road in ancient times, and is also a city famous both at home and abroad for fruits and melons. You can enjoy the sweet fruits and melons while admiring chrysanthemums. In addition, you can also visit exhibitions such as the Gansu Painted Pottery Exhibition, the Silk Road Civilization Exhibition, the Paleontological Fossil Exhibition, and the Gansu Archaeological Discovery Achievements Exhibition on the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of New China. It has everything from nature, customs and cultural tours, which is the favorite of the elderly.

Go to Wulong to see the tiankeng and underground caves

Reason for recommendation: Wulong is a beautiful small city in the lower reaches of Wujiang River. Since ancient times, it has been known as the “Chongqing-Guizhou Gate Screen” and has wonderful landscapes such as the First Gorge, the Second Hole, the Three Bridges, the Fourth Cave, and the Five Springs. The scenery of Wulong is not only majestic, but also a combination of majestic, dangerous, strange, secluded, clear and beautiful. Hundreds of millions of years of geological changes have created geological landscapes such as strange caves, natural bridges, sinkholes, shafts, underground flows, grand canyons, ground fissures, geysers, etc., attracting many tourists to come for sightseeing. Elderly people don’t have to worry about the high mountains, dangerous roads and deep caves. There is an elevator that goes directly from the top to the bottom of the cave.

Appreciate the stunning autumn scenery of Taiwan, the treasure island.

Reason for recommendation: The beautiful and rich treasure island of Taiwan, the motherland, is a place that Chinese people dream about. For the elderly, it is of special significance to experience the charming scenery of the island and even meet old friends in their lifetime. When celebrating the Double Ninth Festival in Taiwan, many ancient customs and charms are preserved, such as climbing high, wearing dogwood, etc.

Extended reading: The origin of the Double Ninth Festival

On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the second nine coincides with each other, which is called " Chongjiu". And because in ancient my country, six is ??a yin number and nine is a yang number, so Double Nine is called "Double Ninth Festival".

The origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to the early Han Dynasty. It is said that in the palace, every year on September 9th, people wear dogwood, eat bait, and drink chrysanthemum wine in order to live longer; after Han Emperor Liu Bang’s beloved concubine Madam Qi was brutally murdered by Empress Lu, the palace maid Jia was also expelled Palace, introduced this custom to the people.

In ancient times, people had the custom of climbing on this day, so the Double Ninth Festival is also called the "Climbing Festival". According to legend, this custom began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. People in the Tang Dynasty wrote many climbing poems, most of which were about the customs of the Double Ninth Festival; Du Fu's seven-line "Deng Gao" is a famous poem about climbing on the Double Ninth Festival. There are no uniform regulations for climbing wherever you go. Generally, you climb mountains and towers. There is also the custom of eating "Double Ninth Cake". The special Double Ninth Festival cake should be made into nine layers, like a pagoda, with two lambs on top to match the meaning of the Double Ninth Festival (sheep). Some people also put a small red paper flag on the Double Ninth Festival cake and light candles. This is probably to replace "climb" with "lighting up lamps" and "eating cakes", and replacing dogwood with small red paper flags.

During the Double Ninth Festival, people also enjoy chrysanthemums and drink chrysanthemum wine, which originated from Tao Yuanming. Tao Yuanming was famous for his seclusion, his poems, his wine, and his love of chrysanthemums. Later generations followed suit, and the custom of appreciating chrysanthemums during the Double Ninth Festival was established. In the old days, scholar-bureaucrats often combined chrysanthemum appreciation with banquets in order to get closer to Tao Yuanming. In Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, chrysanthemum viewing was very popular on the Double Ninth Festival. There were many kinds of chrysanthemums at that time. After the Qing Dynasty, the custom of appreciating chrysanthemums became particularly prosperous, and it was not limited to September 9, but it was still most popular around the Double Ninth Festival.

The custom of planting dogwood on the Double Ninth Festival has been very common in the Tang Dynasty.

The ancients believed that planting dogwood on the Double Ninth Festival can provide refuge and eliminate disasters; it can be worn on the arm, used as a sachet with the dogwood inside and worn, and some can be placed on the head. Most of them are worn by women and children. In some places, men also wear them. Wearing dogwood on the Double Ninth Festival is recorded in Ge Hong's "Xi Jing Za Ji" in the Jin Dynasty.

In addition to wearing dogwood, chrysanthemums are also worn on Double Ninth Festival. This was already the case in the Tang Dynasty and has been popular in all dynasties. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of the Double Ninth Festival in Beijing was to stick chrysanthemum branches and leaves on doors and windows to "remove evil and filth and attract good luck." This was a change from the custom of wearing chrysanthemums on the head. In the Song Dynasty, people cut colored silk ribbons into dogwoods and chrysanthemums and gave them to each other as gifts. Eating rice cakes, admiring chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine, racing paper kites (kite), soaking in hot springs (admission fee), etc., can all bring back the dusty happy memories of the elderly.

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