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

"Climbing high and looking far" means climbing high and looking far. In ancient times, on the ninth day of September, the whole family had to climb high and look far. The legend of mountain climbing is to avoid disaster, because there is a folk story that in ancient times, a family wore dogwood to climb a mountain, and when they came back, they found that all their livestock were dead, except the one who climbed high. Although this is a distant story, it has spread to the custom, from the emperor to the people, they will climb high and look far on the Double Ninth Festival.

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The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional folk festival in China, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. In Guangdong, the Double Ninth Festival is also called Double Ninth Festival, Ascending Festival, Daughter Festival, Cornus officinalis Festival and Chrysanthemum Festival. Once upon a time, there were activities such as hiking, drinking and enjoying chrysanthemums, flying kites, steaming flower cakes, reciting poems to miss people who traveled far away, and marrying married women to go home. On this day, people go to graves to pay homage to their ancestors and express their memory.

The Year of Yanjing describes the establishment of Jiuhuashanzi on the Double Ninth Festival in Beijing in the Qing Dynasty. Nine flowers are chrysanthemums, and some customs of the Double Ninth Festival are still popular. In recent years, the Double Ninth Festival has been established as a festival for the elderly. On that day, people held various activities to show their respect for the elderly.

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