Where is the Double Ninth Festival suitable for traveling?

Mountain climbing, of course. As the saying goes, life is easy to get old, but it is not easy to get old. Today is Chongyang, and the yellow flowers in the battlefield are particularly fragrant. The annual autumn wind is not as strong as spring. Better than spring, just like Wan Li frost on the vast river.

Because the Double Ninth Festival is the day when "Yang" is seated in the hall, the atmosphere rises and the weather drops. In order to avoid contact with unhealthy smells, the ancients climbed mountains to avoid evil smells. Climatically speaking, September 9 is in the middle of autumn, and autumn is crisp. At this time, it is most appropriate to climb high and look far and exercise your bones and muscles.

During the Double Ninth Festival, the autumn harvest has been completed and farming is relatively idle. At this time, Shan Ye's wild fruits and medicinal materials are in the mature season, and farmers have gone up the mountain to collect wild fruits, medicinal materials and plant raw materials for sideline production. This kind of gathering in the mountains is called "small autumn harvest" by farmers. The custom of climbing mountains may have evolved from this at first.

It has been suggested that mountain climbing actually stems from the worship of mountains by the ancients. The living environment of ancestors was extremely difficult, and most of them lived by gathering and hunting. All kinds of plants growing on the mountain, hidden birds and beasts, and gurgling streams enable human beings to survive and reproduce.

If it is hot and dry, the dense forest on the mountain can avoid high temperature roasting; When the flood strikes, climbing mountains can avoid disaster. In addition, the ancients believed that the mountains were shrouded in clouds and inhabited by dragons calling for lightning.

Moreover, lightning in the mountains can bring kindling, and you can make a fire to eat cooked food with foul smell. Therefore, the ancients revered and worshipped the mountains, and the custom of "climbing to pray for blessings" became popular as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.