What is the significance of climbing the mountain on the Double Ninth Festival?

There are many custom activities in the Double Ninth Festival. In order to let everyone know more about how the Double Ninth Festival is celebrated, we will experience the custom of the Double Ninth Festival one by one. Of course, it is enough to experience the custom of climbing mountains on the Double Ninth Festival. Do you know the significance of climbing the mountain on the Double Ninth Festival? If you want to know what climbing on the Double Ninth Festival means, please have a look at my introduction.

What is the significance of climbing the mountain on the Double Ninth Festival?

The Double Ninth Festival is the time when the air is crisp in autumn, sweet-scented osmanthus is fragrant, and the wind and frost are noble and clean. It is advisable to climb high and look far, admire chrysanthemums and make poems. In China, this festival was formed as early as the Warring States Period. In the Han dynasty, it gradually prevailed.

"Miscellanies of Xijing" said that after the wife Qi, the love princess of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, was mutilated to death, her maid Jia was also expelled from the palace and married a civilian. On one occasion, she talked about wearing dogwood, eating lotus bait and drinking chrysanthemum wine in the palace on September 9 every year in order to live longer. "Continuation of Qi and Harmony" records: "You spent many years traveling around Beijing with Fei Changfang. The chief said, "If there is a disaster in your house on September 9th, you should go at once and let your family make their own crimson sacs, hold dogwood and drink chrysanthemum wine on the mountain. "This disaster can be eliminated. Jing climbed the mountain with his family. ..... People in this world went up the mountain to drink on the 9 th, and the woman took the bag of Cornus officinalis, and the lid started here. " In the Tang Dynasty, with the official approval of the imperial court, people took neutralization, thinking and Chongyang as festivals. On the first day of the Ming dynasty, the palace ate flower cakes, and in September, the emperor climbed the Long Live Mountain himself. This wind has been passed down to modern times.

On this day, people go hiking, enjoy chrysanthemums, drink chrysanthemum wine, enjoy dogwood and eat Chongyang cake. Today, this custom still exists in some areas.

Mountain climbing is an important custom of the Double Ninth Festival. This custom in the Han Dynasty originated from the story that Huanjing, a native of Runan, went up the mountain on September 9 to avoid disaster.

During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the date of mountaineering was set on September 9th. The Chronicle of Jingchu said that on September 9, people from all walks of life went to the suburbs to climb mountains and hold a banquet to drink. "A Thousand Women's Moon Order" also said: "On the day of the Double Ninth Festival, you must climb high and overlook, and take food and wine as a feast. Appreciate chrysanthemums and celebrate autumn. "In order to facilitate mountain climbing, Xie Lingyun, a poet in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, also made a kind of clogs with iron teeth on the front and back. It is called "Xie Qigong" to pull out the front teeth when going up the mountain and the back teeth when going down the mountain. In the Tang Dynasty, some famous poets recorded the activities of the Double Ninth Festival with poems.

For example, Li Bai said in the poem "Nine Days Baden Mausoleum King Dongting Water Army"; "The weather was fine on the 9 th, and there were no autumn clouds when climbing." Du Fu's poem "Nine Days" also wrote: "Last year, I boarded the north of Gordon County, and today I focused on Fujiangbin" and so on. In Song Dynasty, mountain climbing was still very popular. "Dream of Tokyo" contains: "Many people climb in the suburbs, such as Cangwang Temple, Siliqiao, Yutai, Liangwangcheng, Yantai, Maotuogang and Dulegang." In the Southern Song Dynasty, according to "Old Wulin Stories", the court held the Double Ninth Festival on the 8th, and waited for the next day's grand entertainment.

In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor personally climbed the Long Live Mountain. In the Qing dynasty, there was a rockery in the imperial garden of the imperial palace for the emperor to climb to Chongyang. In the early folk days, Wuta Temple outside the gate of Dengfu and Fazang Temple inside Zuo 'anmen flourished; in the late Qing Dynasty, Taoranting, Jimen Tobacco Tree (Tucheng outside Germany) and Badachu flourished. According to the Chronicle of Yanjing, anyone who climbs this mountain will "write poems and drink wine, barbecue and share cakes, which is a temporary pleasure."

What does it mean to climb on the Double Ninth Festival?

1, there is a saying of evil spirits: the ancients thought that at the time of nine days, heaven and earth intersected and evil spirits pervaded. In order to avoid contact with unhealthy gods, it is necessary to climb mountains to avoid the evil spirits of the nine days.

3. Blessing and gratitude: In ancient times, there was a feeling of worshipping mountain gods, thinking that mountain gods could save people from disasters, so people climbed mountains in the Double Ninth Festival for good luck.

3. Auspicious implication: According to legend, on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, there is an auspicious implication that "it should last for a long time". Therefore, it has gradually become a folk custom for women to climb mountains and drink chrysanthemum wine and tie a dogwood bag on their arms during the Double Ninth Festival.

4. Mountain climbing collection: During the Double Ninth Festival, the wild fruits and medicinal materials in Shan Ye are just the mature season, and farmers go up the mountain to collect wild fruits and medicinal materials, which may be the origin of mountain climbing custom.

Where to climb the Double Ninth Festival?

1. Wugong Mountain is located in Pingxiang City, Jiangxi Province. It is one of the top ten "unknown" peaks in China, with an altitude of1918.3m.. A large area of alpine meadows and a large number of waterfalls and streams have achieved the reputation of "the first outdoor sports holy land in the south of the Yangtze River".

There are unique alpine grassland scenery at the same latitude in the world, which is amazing. Look at the stars, wait for the sunrise and have a different hiking trip!

2. Conghua Paradise Peak, located at the junction of Conghua, Zengcheng and Longmen counties, is the main peak in Nankun Mountain and the highest peak in Guangzhou, with an altitude of1210m. Here, the mountains are high and cool, the trees are lush, and the mountains are staggered, which has natural characteristics such as beauty, seclusion and Austria. The continuous sea of bamboo, mountains and mountains, towering ancient trees. Climbing high and looking far makes people in a fairyland.

The zenith and two nearby zenith, monkey forehead and horizontal pit top form four male peaks. As the sun sets, the steeper it is, people feel that Cangshan is not old.

You can watch the sunrise, the forest, the sea of clouds, overlooking Liuxi River, Nankun Mountain, Conghua Hot Springs, Pumped Storage Power Station and other scenery.

3. Zengcheng Niugu, also known as Lingshan, is the highest peak in Zengcheng, with an altitude of 1084.3 meters. It is located at the junction of Paitan Town and Longmen County in the north of Zengcheng, overlooking Nankun Mountain in the north, and consists of four peaks 1, 000 meters above (1 peak is covered by two young rats, 1 peak stands upright. Because the mountain shape is like a buffalo lying in the water, it is called a cow. Steep slopes, deep valleys, waterfalls and canyons; Sparsely populated, densely vegetated and primitive, it is a good place for exploration and curiosity.

Zengcheng's last secret place-standing on the top of a brisket, the beautiful scenery in the northern mountainous area is unobstructed, the mountains in the east are Nankun, the jade belt in the south is elegant, and there is Baishui Waterfall in the northwest.

Stonehenge on the top of the mountain is amazing. After thousands of years of creation by nature, you can see what you have, think what you think, or become an elephant or a lion; Or Kirin or tortoise; Or Guanyin ... use your imagination!