Double Ninth Festival is a traditional folk festival in China, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. The number of "Nine" is the number of Yang in the Book of Changes, and the number of "Nine Nine" is the same, so it is called "Double Ninth Festival". Because both the sun and the moon fall on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, it is also called "Double Ninth Festival". The ancients thought the Double Ninth Festival was an auspicious day. In ancient times, there were customs such as climbing mountains to pray for blessings, worshipping gods and ancestors, and drinking and praying for blessings on the Double Ninth Festival, which have been passed down to this day and added the connotation of respecting the elderly.
The Double Ninth Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena, which began in ancient times, spread in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished after the Tang Dynasty. According to the existing historical data and textual research, in ancient times, there were activities of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors in season and autumn.
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The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. It contains the profound cultural connotation of respecting morality, etiquette and music civilization. The Double Ninth Festival has a long history, and ancient north and south have different customs. In the pre-Qin period, local customs had not been integrated and circulated, and the custom of Double Ninth Festival was rarely recorded in writing.
The existing clues about the custom of the Double Ninth Festival can be found in Lu Chunqiu Qiu Ji Ji: "In September, the family is ordered to slaughter and prepare for farming. Mentioned five important things. The Tibetan emperor's family was collected in the holy warehouse, and the Japanese were the only ones who respected the emperor. Taste the sacrifice and prepare for the emperor. " At that time, there was a bumper harvest in September, and the activities of worshipping the ancestors of the Emperor of Heaven were roughly the same as the time of Chongyang.