Double Ninth Festival, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, is called "Double Ninth Festival". There are six Yin and nine Yang in the post-Ye Confucian view of Yin and Yang in Hanzhong. Nine is the number of yang, and the real nine is also called "Chongyang". People have the custom of climbing mountains on that day, so the Double Ninth Festival is also called "Mountaineering Festival". There are also sayings such as Double Ninth Festival, Cornus officinalis and Chrysanthemum Festival.
In addition, the homonym of "99" on the ninth day of September is "99", which has a long meaning, so it is often used to worship ancestors and carry out activities to respect the elderly. The Double Ninth Festival and the three festivals of "the first day", "the Qing Dynasty" and "Chongqing" are also the four major festivals for ancestor worship in Chinese traditional festivals. Only in recent years, people pay more attention to the elderly, so this festival is also called the festival for the elderly.
Folk activities of Double Ninth Festival
1, mountaineering travel
The Double Ninth Festival first has the custom of climbing mountains. Autumn in September, the sky is crisp, this season, climbing high and looking far can achieve the purpose of refreshing, fitness and recuperation. As early as the Western Han Dynasty, the Annals of Chang 'an recorded that people visited the Han capital on September 9th. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a famous story that "the hat fell from Longshan".
2. Enjoy the chrysanthemum and drink it.
On the Double Ninth Festival, China has the traditional custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine. Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty recorded in Bao Puzi that there was a family in Nanyang Mountain, Henan Province, who lived a long life because of drinking the sweet valley water full of chrysanthemums. In Liang's "Picking Chrysanthemums", there is a saying that "under the east fence of picking chrysanthemums, picking pearls tells each other, and the morning dew is wet", which is also a move of picking chrysanthemums to make 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 health drink.
3. Bring Cornus officinalis
The custom of inserting Evodia rutaecarpa was popular in ancient times, so it is also called Cornus Festival. Evodia rutaecarpa and chrysanthemum were very common in the Tang Dynasty. Cornus officinalis has a strong fragrance, which can repel insects, damp and pathogenic wind. People think that the ninth day of September is also a day of disaster, so people like to wear dogwood on the Double Ninth Festival to ward off evil spirits and seek good luck.