What do you know about the Double Ninth Festival?
Because? Jiujiu? With what? Long homophonic, nine is the largest number in the number, which means long life, so the ancients thought the Double Ninth Festival was a happy and auspicious day.
The Double Ninth Festival is also a festival for the elderly in China. By the end of 20 15, the number of elderly people over 60 years old in China has reached 222 million, accounting for 16. 1% of the total population, including your white-haired parents or grandparents. The most beautiful thing in the world is that I grow up and you are not old; I have the ability to repay you, and you are still healthy. Today's Double Ninth Festival, let's make a wish, wishing the elderly at home a long and healthy life and the elderly in the world happiness and well-being! Next, Bian Xiao will introduce the knowledge about the Double Ninth Festival to the friends, and the friends should listen well ~
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First, the source of the Double Ninth Festival
The Double Ninth Festival was originally just a court festival.
The origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. During the Warring States period, Chongyang was paid attention to by people, but it was only an activity in the palace. In the Han Dynasty, the custom of celebrating the Double Ninth Festival gradually became popular. According to legend, Lady Qi, the concubine of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, was killed, and Jia Shi, the maid in front of her, was expelled from the palace and married the poor. Jia brought the activities of Chongyang to the people, and the custom of Chongyang has spread among the people since then. In the Tang Dynasty, the Double Ninth Festival was designated as an official festival. From then on, the court and the people celebrated the Double Ninth Festival together, and various activities were carried out during the festival.
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One of the archetypes of the Double Ninth Festival: the ancient fire ceremony.
As a symbol of ancient seasons and stars? Fire? Star, retired in September, said summer? September fire? The retreat of Mars not only made the ancients who always regarded Mars as a symbol of seasonal production and seasonal life lose the coordinates of time, but also made the ancients who regarded fire as a god feel inexplicable fear. The dormancy of Vulcan means a long winter. Therefore, in the internal fire season, people should hold corresponding farewell ceremonies, just as there should be a welcome ceremony when the fire appears. Although the situation of ancient sacrificial ceremonies is obscure, we can still find some traces of ancient customs from the utensils of the Double Ninth Festival in later generations. For example, some areas in the south of the Yangtze River have the custom of offering sacrifices to stoves on the Double Ninth Festival, which shows the clue of offering sacrifices to fire in ancient September.
The Double Ninth Festival is one of the four festivals for ancestor worship in China.
When it comes to ancestor worship, we always think of Tomb-Sweeping Day first. Don't forget that the Double Ninth Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and New Year's Eve are the four major festivals for ancestor worship in China. Ancestor worship is the ancient meaning of Double Ninth Festival. As early as the pre-Qin period, there were activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in autumn and September when crops were abundant, in order to thank them for their kindness. Nowadays, people in many places take advantage of climbing mountains on the Double Ninth Festival to sweep graves and commemorate their ancestors. Even in some places, the Double Ninth Festival is more important than Tomb-Sweeping Day. There are many people who worship their ancestors in Chongyang, Puxian County, Fujian Province, so there is a saying that there is a small Qingming in March and a big Qingming in September. Due to the coastal area of Puxian, the ninth day of September is also the day when Mazu ascended to heaven. Villagers often go to the Tianhou Palace and the Palace Temple in Mazu Tempel or Meizhou to offer sacrifices and pray.
So, what are the customs of the Double Ninth Festival?
What can we do on the Double Ninth Festival?
Climb the peak
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.
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. September of the lunar calendar, commonly known as Chrysanthemum Month, holds a chrysanthemum party on holidays, and people from all over the city go to the meeting to enjoy chrysanthemums.
Enjoy autumn.
The Double Ninth Festival is the best time to enjoy autumn, and some mountain villages in the south of China are still preserved? Sunbathing in autumn? Features. Going to the countryside to appreciate the folk customs and watch the autumn sun has become a fashion in rural tourism.
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With so many customs, there must be many snacks. Let's see what you and Bian Xiao ate.
3. What can I eat on the Double Ninth Festival?
Every time you gain three pounds during the festival, foodies must be eager to ask, what to eat on the Double Ninth Festival? The most traditional food is Chongyang cake, which was called Peng bait by the ancients to replace the climbing custom, implying that everything is high. At the same time, there are all kinds of delicious food in the Double Ninth Festival.
People in the north of Changyi, Shandong eat spicy radish soup on the Double Ninth Festival. There is a proverb: after drinking radish soup, the whole family will not suffer? . Juancheng people call the Double Ninth Festival the birthday of the God of Wealth, and every household bakes cakes to offer sacrifices to the God of Wealth.
On the Double Ninth Festival in Xixiang County, Shaanxi Province, relatives and friends presented chrysanthemums and chrysanthemum cakes. Scholars exchange poems and wine. It is said that women can learn from Cornus officinalis on this day, which can cure their distress.
Changzhou county, Jiangsu province eats a kind of food called double ninth festival? Camel hooves? Spaghetti Eat Chongyang cake and Jiupin soup at the Double Ninth Festival in Wuxi County.
In Tonglu County, Zhejiang Province, Zongzi are tied up and given to each other on the Double Ninth Festival, which is called Chongyang Zongzi.
Wuchang County, Hubei Province, Double Ninth Festival brewing. It is said that the wine brewed here is the clearest and will not go bad after a long time.
In Changting County, Fujian Province, the edamame Festival is called the edamame Festival.
In Nanxi County, Sichuan Province, there is an ancient folk custom that glutinous rice should be used to steam wine and make mash before and after the Double Ninth Festival. As the saying goes:? Chongyang steamed wine, sweet and delicious? .
Filial piety is the first of all virtues, which is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. Even the little things we can do, they will be happy for us. I often go home to see my grandparents, parents and many elders. Remember, little friends ~
Do you know anything about the Double Ninth Festival?
Today, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the Double Ninth Festival, also known as the Double Ninth Festival and the Autumn Festival of the Sun. Step on autumn? .
Because? Jiujiu? With what? Long homophonic, nine is the largest number in the number, which means long life, so the ancients thought the Double Ninth Festival was a happy and auspicious day.
The Double Ninth Festival is also a festival for the elderly in China. The most beautiful thing in the world is that I grow up and you are not old; I have the ability to repay you, and you are still healthy. Today's Double Ninth Festival, let's make a wish, wishing the elderly at home a long and healthy life and the elderly in the world happiness and well-being!
Chongyang custom, not only climbing mountains.
Climb the peak
There is a custom of climbing mountains on the Double Ninth Festival. On this day, all relatives will climb the mountain together? Avoid disaster? . Autumn in September, the sky is crisp, this season, climbing high and looking far can achieve the purpose of refreshing, fitness and recuperation.
offer sacrifices to ancestors
The Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Zhongyuan Festival are collectively called the four traditional ancestral festivals in China. On this day, Cantonese people call it? Worship Taigong Mountain? All the family members will come back? Worship Taigong Mountain? , especially men.
Respect for the elderly
The Double Ninth Festival is also a festival for the elderly in China. People should express their filial piety to the elderly and advocate the whole society to establish an atmosphere of respecting, respecting, loving and helping the elderly. On May 20th, 2006, the Double Ninth Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in the State Council.
Autumn sun
The Double Ninth Festival is the best time to enjoy autumn, and some mountain villages in the south of China are still preserved? Sunbathing in autumn? Features. ? Sunbathing in autumn? This is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon. Villagers in mountainous areas have to use the roofs in front of and behind their houses and their own windowsills to hang crops, because their villages have complex terrain and few flat land.
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. September of the lunar calendar, commonly known as Chrysanthemum Month, holds a chrysanthemum party on holidays, and people from all over the city go to the meeting to enjoy chrysanthemums.
Peidogwood
People think that the ninth day of September is also a day of disaster, so people like to wear dogwood to ward off evil spirits and seek good luck on the Double Ninth Festival. Cornus officinalis is also called? Evil spirits? . Cornus officinalis has a strong aroma, and has the functions of expelling parasites, removing dampness, expelling wind, promoting digestion and resolving food stagnation, and treating cold and heat.
Traditional authentic Chongyang cuisine
Drink chrysanthemum wine
In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was specially brewed for the Double Ninth Festival in the first year. On September 9, the newly-opened chrysanthemums and a little green branches and leaves were picked, mixed with grain for brewing, and then used together for brewing until September 9 of the following year.
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Traditional Chinese medicine has proved that chrysanthemum is sweet, cold and bitter, and has the functions of dispelling wind and clearing heat, nourishing liver and improving eyesight, diminishing inflammation and detoxifying. Although chrysanthemum wine can't reach it? Not old? But it does have the medicinal value of clearing away heat and toxic materials, improving eyesight and expelling wind, calming the liver and dispersing the lung, benefiting yin and nourishing kidney.
Eat Chongyang cake
Chongyang cake is also called flower cake, chrysanthemum cake and five-color cake. It was the original intention of the ancients to make cakes at dawn on September 9. The child put a cake on his head and said a word in his mouth, wishing the child all the best. Exquisite Chongyang cake should be made into nine layers, like a pagoda, with two lambs on it, which conforms to the meaning of Chongyang (sheep). Some people even put red paper flags on Chongyang cakes and light candles. This is probably used? Light a lamp? 、? Eat cake? Instead? Climb high? Cornus officinalis was replaced by a little red paper flag.
In addition, sponge cakes and honey cakes in Shanghai and Jiuzhongke in Fuzhou are also the best products for people to taste and enjoy during the Double Ninth Festival.
Eat mutton noodles
You should eat mutton noodles on the Double Ninth Festival. ? Sheep? With what? Yang? Homophonic, it should be the code name of Chongyang. Want to eat white flour to make noodles? White? what's up A hundred? Remove the top word? One? Ninety-nine means one hundred MINUS one. Jiujiu? Classic. Mutton is warm in nature, benefiting qi and tonifying deficiency, warming the middle and warming the lower, treating mental fatigue, soreness of waist and knees, five strains and seven injuries. In Compendium of Materia Medica, mutton is called a warm tonic for nourishing Yuanyang and benefiting blood. Eating in autumn and winter can supplement the dual effects of cold protection.
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There are many famous snacks in northern Shaanxi, mainly buckwheat noodles and mutton, such as minced mutton and buckwheat noodles. When people in northern Shaanxi celebrate the Double Ninth Festival, they all want to eat buckwheat mutton at night.
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Beware of autumn dryness
Dry in autumn, easy to hurt and consume; At the same time, respiratory diseases, such as bronchitis, bronchial asthma and rhinitis, are particularly prone to occur in autumn, especially in the elderly with low immunity. To cope with autumn dryness, eat less spicy onions, ginger, garlic, peppers and so on. Eat more sour fruits, vegetables and food to nourish the liver qi. This season, drinking porridge can reduce people's gastrointestinal burden and help digestion.
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Warm sleep
Sleep is the highlight of health care. It is easy to be influenced by the cool breeze on autumn nights. Thief wind? Invasion. What if? Thief wind? Blowing on the head and face of a sleeping person will make you feel migraine the next morning; ? Thief wind? Blowing in the abdomen can cause diarrhea; ? Thief wind? Blowing on exposed limbs can also make muscles tense and contract. So, at this time, you must lie down from the cold when you fall asleep. In addition, the autumn climate is dry, the wind is strong, and sweat evaporates quickly, which is easy to make people dry, dry throat, constipation and chapped skin. In daily life, we should pay attention to maintaining indoor humidity.
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Avoid blind compensation
Autumn is a tonic season, and many old people are at this time? Stick to autumn? . At present, there are many popular science articles about health preservation and health in society, but some opinions are not suitable for everyone. Especially the elderly, must be supplemented according to their own specific conditions. Many traditional Chinese medicine supplements pay great attention to the cold and heat of the constitution, so we must find out before taking it.
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A regular life
The most important thing in changing seasons is to maintain good living habits, and it is best not to break the original, established and stable routine.
The elderly have fragile bones and are a high incidence of osteoarthropathy. If there are elderly people at home who want to climb mountains, they must be reminded to avoid strenuous exercise for a long time and pay attention to protecting the health of bones and joints.
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resilience
In autumn, the sunshine decreases, the temperature drops gradually, and the flowers and trees wither. In such an environment, it is easy to feel depressed, irritable, desolate and lifeless because of the scenery. When the elderly are in a bad mood, it will accelerate the pace of physiological aging and induce many diseases. Children should talk to their parents more and communicate more.