Lv Qi. Buyun Jiujiu

Text/Xu Hai

The rainy night disappears in the morning and the sky is wide.

Birds sing and flowers talk to each other.

The forest bypass is still bad,

Hirono took the stage to be the crown.

The fruit of Cornus officinalis is brittle after being soaked in frost.

The willow trees in the wet yard are very cold.

Happy every 99 trees are green,

Make fun of bamboo and smile.

Bu Tangyun Du Fu's "Nine Days Cui Lantian Poetry Village"

Tang Du Fu's Nine Days Original Jade Cui Lantian Shizhuang

I'm old and sad,

Come on, have fun today.

It's embarrassing to blow a hat with short hair,

Laughing at others is the crown.

Blue water falls from thousands of streams,

Jade Mountain is high, and two peaks are cold.

Who will be healthy this time next year,

The drunken dogwood looked carefully.

Look at ancient rhyming poems:

Bu Duyun's Poems in Cui Lantian in Nine Days

Qing Daiheng

Bamboo and yellow flowers are common in the wild.

By the hedge, by the stream, each pursues happiness.

Pale beard got 1, shouted at the wine:

Yushu was intoxicated in the breeze.

Frost leaves are all over the trees, and the autumn is crisp.

Feng Dan is very cold.

It's foggy, thousands of feet is high,

Seize the opportunity to board the ship and smile.

On May 20th, 2006, the Double Ninth Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in the State Council. The Law of the People's Republic of China on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly, revised and passed by the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) on 20 12, stipulates that the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Day for the Elderly.

The Historical Evolution of the Double Ninth Festival: (Excerpted from Baidu)

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The Double Ninth Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena, which began in ancient times, spread in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished after the Tang Dynasty. According to historical research, there were activities of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors in autumn and season in ancient times; The ancients offered sacrifices to the Emperor and ancestors when the crops were harvested in September, which was an activity to thank the Emperor and ancestors for their kindness. This is the original form of the Double Ninth Festival as an autumn harvest sacrifice activity.

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Double Ninth Festival

Another name

Old people's day, double ninth festival, climbing festival, ancestor worship festival, double ninth festival, sunbathing festival, respect for the elderly festival, double ninth festival, etc.

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The origin of the name "Chongyang" was named after "Yang is nine" in the ancient book I Ching. In the Book of Changes, "six" is defined as yin number, "nine" is defined as yang number, and "extreme number" means that the height of the sky is "nine times". "Nine" is the Lao Yang, which is the anode number. The two anode numbers are combined, 1999 is unified, one yuan starts, and Vientiane is updated. Therefore, the ancients thought that Chongyang was an auspicious day to celebrate. In ancient times, there was a custom of drinking to pray for longevity. On the ninth day of September, the sun and every month meet on the ninth day, which means "the weight of 29", so it is called "double ninth". At the same time, the two yang numbers are combined, so it is called "double ninth".

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Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and July 30th are all traditional festivals in China, and ancestor worship is a major theme of major festivals. China was a farming society and agricultural civilization in ancient times, and attached great importance to the experience of ancestors. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has the concept of courtesy and respect for ancestors, and has the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors on holidays to show filial piety and not forget their roots.

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In ancient times, there was the custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival, so it was also called "Climbing Festival".

The climbing custom of Chongyang originated from the climate characteristics at this time and the worship of mountains by the ancients. Climbing is also a solar term originated from nature, and climbing on the Double Ninth Festival corresponds to the spring outing of ancient people in spring and March. There is no uniform regulation on the place of climbing, and the place of climbing is generally divided into mountain climbing, building climbing or platform climbing.

According to the laws of motion of the sun, the moon and the earth, Chongyang is a climate of "clear air rises and turbid air sinks". The higher the terrain, the thicker the clear sky, so "Double Ninth Festival" has become an important folk custom.

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Respect for the elderly day

In modern times, the ninth day of September has been given a new meaning of respecting the elderly. Because "nine" is the largest number in numbers, and nine is an enduring homonym, so nine goes up to nine and nine goes up to nine, which contains a long, long and noble metaphor. In the folk concept, because "nine" is the largest number, and "nine nine" and "long" are homophonic, it is endowed with the meaning of immortality, longevity, health and longevity.

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Autumn sun

The Double Ninth Festival is the best time to enjoy autumn, and some mountain villages in the south of China still retain the characteristics of "basking in autumn". Going to the countryside to appreciate the folk customs and watch the autumn sun has become a fashion in rural tourism. "Sunbathing in autumn" is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon with strong regional characteristics. Villagers living in mountainous areas such as Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui and Jiangxi. It has become a traditional agricultural custom to use the roof in front of the house and the window sill to hang crops. This special lifestyle and scene of villagers drying crops has gradually become the material pursued and created by painters and photographers, and created a poetic name "drying autumn".

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offer sacrifices to ancestors

The Double Ninth Festival is one of the four traditional festivals of ancestor worship in China, and there is a tradition of ancestor worship and blessing in ancient times. The traditional custom of ancestor worship on the Double Ninth Festival is still popular in Lingnan area, and people hold ancestor worship activities on the Double Ninth Festival every year. Whether it's ancestor worship or farsightedness, its most fundamental function is to enhance people's cultural identity and strengthen the cohesion of family and society. In traditional customs, Tomb-Sweeping Day is the Spring Festival and the Double Ninth Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival. The traditional custom of ancestor worship in Chongyang Mountain continues to this day.

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Appreciate the beautiful chrysanthemums

The Double Ninth Festival has always had the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums, so it has been called Chrysanthemum Festival since ancient times. The custom of appreciating chrysanthemums originated from chrysanthemum culture. Chrysanthemum is a natural flower. Chrysanthemum has formed chrysanthemum culture because of its colorful colors and blooming in Ao Shuang. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the Three Kingdoms, it has become fashionable for Chongyang parties to drink and enjoy chrysanthemums and recite poems. In the ancient customs of China, chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity. Chrysanthemum is the flower of longevity, and is praised by scholars as the unyielding symbol of first frost.

The ancients often regarded Chongyang and Shangsi (or Qingming) as the corresponding spring and autumn festivals. If thinking above is a festival for people to go swimming after the long winter, then Chongyang is a ceremonial autumn outing when the autumn is cold and the new is coming, and people are about to live in seclusion, so there are the folk customs of "going for an outing" in Tomb-Sweeping Day and "bidding farewell to youth" on the Double Ninth Festival.

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Drink chrysanthemum wine

Drink chrysanthemum wine: Chrysanthemum has become a symbol of vitality because of its unique character. Chrysanthemum contains health-preserving ingredients. In Jin Dynasty, Ge Hong's "Bao Pu Zi" recorded that people in Nanyang Mountain drank sweet valley water full of chrysanthemums and lived longer. Drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival is a traditional custom in China. Chrysanthemum wine, in ancient times, was regarded as the "auspicious wine" that Chongyang must drink to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings. Chrysanthemum wine is a medicinal liquor, which tastes slightly bitter. After drinking, it can make people clear their eyes and wake up, and it has auspicious meaning of eliminating disasters and praying for blessings.

Chrysanthemum wine appeared in the Han Dynasty. Later, there were stories about sending chrysanthemums for birthday and picking chrysanthemums to brew wine. For example, Emperor Wei Wendi Cao Pi once sent chrysanthemums to Zhong You on the Double Ninth Festival (wishing him a long life), and Emperor Liang Jianwen's "Picking chrysanthemums in the basket, the morning dew is wet" is an example 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.

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Peidogwood

The custom of inserting Evodia rutaecarpa was popular in ancient times, so it is also called Cornus Festival. In the past, folk festivals and customs of the Han nationality were popular in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, Huaihe River and Yangtze River.

Cornus officinalis is a kind of fruit that can be used as Chinese medicine. The ancients believed that climbing a mountain and inserting Evodia rutaecarpa on the Double Ninth Festival could repel insects, damp and pathogenic wind. So he put Cornus officinalis on his arm or in a sachet and on his head. Most of them are worn by women and children, and men in some places also wear them.

As a medicine, Cornus officinalis can make wine, strengthen the body and get rid of diseases. Evodia rutaecarpa and chrysanthemum were very common in the Tang Dynasty. Cornus officinalis has a strong fragrance, which has the functions of improving eyesight, refreshing brain, expelling pathogenic fire, removing dampness and dispelling cold, promoting digestion and resolving food stagnation, and treating cold and heat.