The Double Ninth Festival is also a time to enjoy autumn chrysanthemums. Why?

The reasons for enjoying chrysanthemums on the Double Ninth Festival in ancient times are as follows:

The custom of appreciating chrysanthemums originated from chrysanthemum culture. Chrysanthemum is a natural flower. Chrysanthemum has formed chrysanthemum culture because of its colorful colors and blooming in Ao Shuang. ?

The Double Ninth Festival has always had the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums, so it has been called Chrysanthemum Festival since ancient times. September of the lunar calendar, commonly known as Chrysanthemum Month, holds a chrysanthemum party on holidays, and people from all over the city go to the meeting to enjoy chrysanthemums. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the Three Kingdoms, it has become fashionable for Chongyang parties to drink and enjoy chrysanthemums and recite poems. In the ancient customs of China, chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity. Chrysanthemum is the flower of longevity, and is praised by scholars as the unyielding symbol of first frost.

Other customs of ancient Double Ninth Festival:

Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival in China, which combines various folk customs. There are many folk activities and rich cultural connotations. Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and looking far, watching chrysanthemums, planting dogwood everywhere, giving a banquet to respect the elderly, eating double ninth cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities.

1, basking in autumn:

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.

2. Fly a kite.

Flying kites is the main custom of celebrating the Double Ninth Festival in the south. The folk Double Ninth Festival is characterized by flying kites. Guangxu's "Huizhou Fuzhi" is also recorded. Paper kites are kites now. In the folk tradition, besides climbing mountains, flying kites is also a major feature of the Double Ninth Festival.

Step 3: climb the mountain

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.

4. ancestor worship

The Double Ninth Festival is one of the four traditional festivals of ancestor worship in China, and there is a tradition of ancestor worship and blessing in ancient times. In ancient times, the traditional custom of ancestor worship on Double Ninth Festival was still popular in Lingnan area, and people held ancestor worship activities on Double Ninth Festival every year. Whether it's ancestor worship or farsightedness, its most fundamental function is to enhance people's cultural identity and strengthen the cohesion of family and society.

5. Pei dogwood

The custom of inserting Evodia rutaecarpa was popular in ancient times, so it is also called Cornus Festival. The ancients believed that climbing a mountain and inserting Evodia rutaecarpa on the Double Ninth Festival could repel insects, damp and pathogenic wind. So he put Cornus officinalis on his arm or in a sachet and on his head. Most of them are worn by women and children, and men in some places also wear them.

Extended data:

Ancient poems about chrysanthemum appreciation on Double Ninth Festival;

White Chrysanthemum at Chongyang Banquet

Author: Tang Dynasty-Bai Juyi

A yard full of golden chrysanthemums with a bunch of flowers in the middle, the flowers are so lonely.

Just like today's feast, the old man went to the place where the young man went.

A yard with golden chrysanthemums and a cluster of frosted flowers in the middle is so lonely. Just like today's banquet, the old man walked into the place where the teenagers went.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Double Ninth Festival (China Traditional Festival)

Baidu Encyclopedia-White Chrysanthemum at Chongyang Banquet