The Double Ninth Festival, which originated in the Warring States Period, was originally a festive day. The ancients divided everything in heaven and earth into Yin and Yang, with Yin representing darkness and Yang representing light and vitality. Odd numbers are positive and even numbers are negative. Nine is an odd number, so it belongs to Yang. On the ninth day of September, the sun and the moon meet, and the two yang are heavy, so it is called "Chongyang".
On this day, it is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the sky is crisp. This is a good time to climb high and overlook and relax. At this time, many literati in the past dynasties in China climbed high and looked far, drank chrysanthemum wine and recited poems for fun, leaving countless poems.
In September, when the cold winter came, people began to buy winter clothes. When they worship their ancestors, they don't forget to burn paper clothes and let them spend the winter in the underworld. As a result, the Double Ninth Festival evolved into a festival to sweep graves and burn winter clothes for ancestors.
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Double Ninth Festival, like other traditional festivals, is a family reunion festival. It is also a family member who commemorates the ancestors. In Singapore, some guild halls still retain the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors on the Double Ninth Festival, which is called "Autumn Festival".
On this day, others can choose more traditional ways to celebrate, such as family or friends gathering for outdoor activities, which can not only enjoy the natural scenery, but also contact the feelings between relatives and friends.
On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, every day of the month is nine numbers, and the double sun is heavy, hence the name Double Ninth Festival. As an entertainment-oriented festival, the Double Ninth Festival is characterized by climbing mountains, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine, inserting dogwood and eating cakes.
Among them, the most prominent festival activity is mountain climbing, and the custom of mountain climbing began in the Western Han Dynasty. Liu Xin's "Miscellaneous Notes on Xijing" says: "March has passed, September has passed, and scholars and women play games, so the author emphasizes nine and three, and points out the meaning of climbing mountains to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters." Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, also described it in Nine Days of Ascension:
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On the river, the geese just flew south, and they made friends with wine and hip flask mountain.
Laughter makes people laugh, when chrysanthemums are in full bloom.
However, I will try my best to pay for the festival, and I won't hate it when I board the plane.
After all, life is a short history, so why do you cry like Qi Jinggong?
1999 mountain climbing is not just about going to a banquet to write poems, it also has other activities. These activities were integrated into a "rock climbing club". Gordon Conference is also called "cowans Conference", so it is also called "cowans Festival".