Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival with a long history, which should have a history of more than two thousand years.

The existing written records about the custom of the Double Ninth Festival were first found in Lu Chunqiu Qiu Ji Ji, which recorded the ancient people's activities of offering sacrifices to the Heaven Emperor and ancestors in September.

The name of the Double Ninth Festival was recorded in the Three Kingdoms period. In the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the festive atmosphere became stronger, and there was a written record of the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums and drinking alcohol, which was sung by literati. It was listed as a recognized festival in the Tang Dynasty.

In the process of historical continuation, the Double Ninth Festival has integrated a variety of folk customs. With the development of the times, the cultural connotation of the Double Ninth Festival has been continuously extended and enriched. You can't say happy on the Double Ninth Festival.

There is a saying that the Double Ninth Festival cannot be said to be happy but healthy, because some people think that the Double Ninth Festival is a festival for ancestor worship and should not be said to be happy. At the same time, the Double Ninth Festival is also a festival for the elderly, so it is generally used to show each other's safety and health!

In the process of historical continuation, the Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival in China, which combines many folk customs and cultural connotations.

Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and looking far, watching chrysanthemums, picking Chinese herbal medicines, planting dogwood everywhere, holding old-age banquets, eating double ninth cake, making medicinal liquor for health preservation, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities.

Chongyang is the season when the clear sky rises and the polluted air sinks. The higher the terrain, the more the clear sky gathers, so it has become a folk custom to enjoy the clear sky on Chongyang Mountain.

Autumn in September, the sky is crisp, this season, climbing high and looking far can achieve the purpose of refreshing, fitness and recuperation. On the Double Ninth Festival, all localities organize activities for the elderly to climb mountains, have an autumn outing, exchange feelings and exercise.

The younger generation of many families will also help the elderly to go to the suburbs. There are many folk activities and rich cultural connotations in the Double Ninth Festival. The custom of flying paper kites on Double Ninth Festival

Flying kites is one of the main customs of the Double Ninth Festival in southern China. The folk Double Ninth Festival is characterized by flying kites. Guangxu's "Huizhou Fuzhi" is also recorded.

In the folk tradition, besides climbing mountains, flying kites is also a major feature of the Double Ninth Festival.

As for why people fly kites (kites) on the Double Ninth Festival, apart from the climatic reasons that the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the wind is light and bright, paper kites are easy to ride the wind, and there are some sayings that are between wizards and witches, which are quite interesting inadvertently.

According to legend, flying kites on the Double Ninth Festival is to release bad luck. The higher a kite flies, the more bad luck it takes away. What's more, to make the kite disappear, you need to disconnect it specially.

Another explanation is that flying kites in Chongyang is auspicious and blessed. The better the kite flies, the stronger the blessing. Kite-flying people not only can't break the silk thread, but also try their best to protect it, because if the silk thread breaks, luck and blessings will also drift away.