enjoy beautiful chrysanthemums
The Double Ninth Festival has always had the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums, so it was also called Chrysanthemum Festival in ancient times. People think that chrysanthemum is a symbol of longevity. During the Double Ninth Festival, chrysanthemum conferences and exhibitions are held in many places, and people from all over the city will send people out to see chrysanthemums. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the Three Kingdoms, it has become a fashion for Chongyang parties to drink and admire chrysanthemums and compose poems.
Chrysanthemum wine
In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was regarded as the "auspicious wine" that Chongyang must drink to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings. Therefore, the Double Ninth Festival has always kept the custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine.
Chrysanthemum wine brewed by No.9 was regarded as longevity wine in ancient times. Chrysanthemum wine has the medicinal value of clearing away heat and toxic materials, improving eyesight and expelling wind, calming liver and dispersing lung, benefiting yin and nourishing kidney. In Song Dynasty, people used chrysanthemum and dogwood to soak wine, and named dogwood "to ward off evil spirits" and chrysanthemum "to prolong life". They thought they could eliminate the "evil of Yang Jiu". There is still a folk nursery rhyme circulating in Shandong today: "On the ninth day of September, the Double Ninth Festival, chrysanthemums are full of wine." Until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, chrysanthemum wine was still very popular, and it was still recorded in Gao Lian's Eight Chapters of Respect for Life in the Ming Dynasty. This is a popular healthy drink.
Climb the peak
One of the most important festival activities in Chongyang is mountain climbing. Therefore, the Double Ninth Festival is also called "ascensiontide". There is no uniform rule for climbing mountains. Generally, we climb mountains and towers.
Of course, people climb mountains not only to climb mountains, but also to see the red leaves and wild flowers on the mountains and enjoy them by drinking and eating meat. This combination of climbing mountains and picnics is more attractive.
For example, Sun Simiao in the Sui Dynasty said in the "Thousand Yue Jinfang Orders": "On the Double Ninth Festival, you must watch the wine and climb the mountain, and enjoy the autumn ambition with a feast. Wine must take dogwood and chrysanthemum, and you must drink it. " This paper describes the charm of chrysanthemum appreciation in Chongyang. Because the Double Ninth Festival is an autumn festival, flowers and trees begin to wither after the festival, so there is a saying that the double ninth festival is called "tattoo", which corresponds to the saying that the spring outing in March is called "outing".
In the Qing Dynasty, Pan Rongbi wrote in Ji Sheng during the reign of Emperor Jing: "(Chongyang) has a cure and drinks in the suburbs all day, which is called' tattoo'." This is also a poetic name.
Eat Chongyang cake
Besides drinking dogwood, chrysanthemum wine and eating chrysanthemum food, Chongyang has many ways of eating, the most famous of which is eating cakes.
It is especially windy to eat Chongyang cake in the north. According to Xijing Miscellanies, in the Han Dynasty, September 9th was the custom of eating Peng bait, which was the original Double Ninth Festival cake. The symbol of "coarse flower cake" is to stick some coriander leaves with rough dried fruits such as olives, jujubes and walnuts in the middle. There are three or two layers of fine flower cakes, each with fine candied dried fruits, such as preserved apples, peaches, apricots and dates. Money flower cake is basically the same as fine flower cake, but smaller, just like "money", which is mostly the food of the upper nobility.
In the Song Dynasty, eating Chongyang cake was popular. Cake is homophonic with Gao, and eating cake is for good luck, so it is favored by people.
kite
Double Ninth Festival custom: Putting paper owls is the main custom of celebrating Double Ninth Festival in Huizhou. In other words, the folk Double Ninth Festival in Huizhou is mainly characterized by paper flying kites. This habit is not only described in folk songs circulating in Huizhou, but also described in Guangxu's Huizhou Fu Zhi. Paper harriers are kites now, too. Kite is the title after the Five Dynasties. Five dynasties ago, the north used to call it a "paper kite" and the south used to call it a "kite". The appellation of "paper kite" in Huizhou obviously retains the ancient appellation of five dynasties ago, and has the flavor of "a mixture of north and south". Huizhou folk paper owls have changed their original appearance, mostly with a square plane and a tail, and their shapes are similar to those of the door gods and deities attached to the folk, so it is suspected that they are a simplification of the god kite.
Pei dogwood praised chrysanthemum
Cornus officinalis is an important symbol of the Double Ninth Festival. People also like to wear chrysanthemums on the Double Ninth Festival. Cornus officinalis is nicknamed "evil-ward Weng" and chrysanthemum is also called "longevity-prolonging guest".
Cornus officinalis is a kind of fruit that can be used as medicine, because the quality of Cornus officinalis produced in Wudi (now Jiangsu and Zhejiang) is the best. Cornus officinalis ripens in autumn, the fruit is tender yellow, and turns purple when ripe, which has the effects of warming the middle warmer, relieving pain and regulating qi. Compendium of Materia Medica says it is spicy and fragrant, warm in nature, and can cure cold and drive away poison. The ancients believed that wearing dogwood could ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters.
I missed a long time on September 9th, the Double Ninth Festival. Appreciate chrysanthemums, climb high and express happiness; In the sunset, there are several geese, and good news is frequently spread. Send greetings, tell your heart, and wish you good luck and health.