4hw.org: the Mid Autumn Festival is over. Next, it's a very important traditional festival -- Chongyang Festival. Jiujiu Chongyang means that the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is Chongyang Festival. It's a good festival for people to sacrifice, appreciate the scenery and appreciate chrysanthemums. Let's see the origin of Chongyang Festival!
Chongyang Festival is a traditional festival of the Han nationality, which is a mixture of various folk customs. The celebration of the Double Ninth Festival usually includes travel, sightseeing, climbing, chrysanthemum viewing, dogwood planting, eating double ninth cake, chrysanthemum wine drinking and other activities. Now let's introduce these folk customs to you.
The origin and origin of Chongyang Festival
The origin of Chongyang Festival:
The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the Double Ninth Festival, also known as the 'old man's Day'. In the book of changes, six is defined as the Yin number and nine as the Yang number. On September 9, the sun and the moon are combined, and the two and nine are equal. Therefore, it is called Chongyang or Chongjiu. The ancients thought it was a auspicious day to celebrate, and they began to celebrate it very early.
The activities to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival are colorful and romantic, generally including traveling, climbing, chrysanthemum viewing, dogwood planting, eating double ninth cake, chrysanthemum wine drinking and other activities.
Jiujiu Double Ninth Festival, because it has the same sound with "long time", Jiujiu is the largest number among the numbers and has the meaning of long-term longevity. Moreover, autumn is also the golden season of one year's harvest. The Double Ninth Festival has a profound meaning. People have always had a special feeling for this festival. There are many poems of congratulating Chongyang and chanting chrysanthemum in Tang poetry and Song poetry.
Today's Chongyang Festival has been given a new meaning. In 1989, China designated September 9 as the old people's day every year. The combination of tradition and modernity has become a festival for the elderly to respect, respect, love and help the elderly. Organizations, groups and streets all over the country often organize elderly people who have retired from their jobs to enjoy the scenery in autumn, or play near the water, or climb mountains to keep fit, so that their bodies and minds are bathed in the embrace of nature; many younger families will also help the elderly to go to the countryside for activities or prepare some delicious food for the elderly.
The origin of Chongyang Festival:
Jiujiu Chongyang was mentioned in Chu Ci as early as the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period. In Qu Yuan's "a long journey", he wrote: "gather Chongyang to enter the Imperial Palace, and observe the capital of the Qing Dynasty from the beginning of ten days.". "Chongyang" here refers to the sky, not the festival. In the book of nine days and Zhong you written by Cao Pi, Emperor Wen of the Wei Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms period, the banquet of Chongyang has been clearly written: from the age of 'to the moon, the feast is suddenly repeated on September 9. Nine is the number of Yang, and the sun and the moon should be the same. The name of the popular Jiaqi is suitable for a long time, so we can enjoy the banquet. '
Tao Yuanming, a scholar in the Jin Dynasty, said in the preface of the poem "nine days of leisure life:" leisure life, love the name of nine. The autumn chrysanthemum is in full bloom, while the fermented glutinous rice wine is in full swing, serving Jiuhua in the air, and cherishing words'. Chrysanthemum and wine are also mentioned here. Probably in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Chongyang day had the practice of drinking and enjoying chrysanthemums. In the Tang Dynasty, Chongyang was officially designated as a folk festival.
In the Ming Dynasty, in September Chongyang, the Imperial Palace would eat cakes together to celebrate, and the emperor would go to the longevity mountain to climb the mountain in person to Chang Qiuzhi. This custom was spread to the Qing Dynasty.
The origin of Chongyang Festival originates from a fairy story of Taoism:
It is said that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a plague devil in Ruhe River. As soon as it appeared, some people in every household would fall ill and even die every day. The people in this area were devastated by the plague devil, which can't be seen.
At that time, there was a young man named Hengjing in Runan County. One year, the plague took away his parents and almost killed himself. After Hengjing recovered from his illness, he said goodbye to his beloved wife and fellow villagers, and decided to go out to visit immortals to learn arts and eliminate harm for the people. After experiencing difficulties and dangers, Hengjing finally found a immortal with boundless power in an ancient mountain. The immortal was moved by his spirit of painstaking efforts to eliminate harm for the people, and decided to take him as an apprentice, give him a demon subduing sword, and teach him the demon subduing sword. Hengjing has worked hard day and night, and finally developed a remarkable martial art.
One day, the immortal called Hengjing to him and said: 'tomorrow is the ninth day of September, and the plague devil will come out to do evil again. Now that you have learned your skills, you should go back to kill the people!'. At this time, immortal gave Hengjing a pack of dogwood leaves, a bottle of chrysanthemum wine, and gave the secret of avoiding evil, so that Hengjing immediately rode the crane to go home.
Hengjing returned to his hometown. On the morning of September 9, he took the villagers to a nearby mountain according to the immortal's instructions, and gave them a piece of dogwood leaf and a cup of chrysanthemum wine. At noon, the gale howled, the north wind suddenly rose, the sky was dark, with a few shrill roars, the plague rushed out of the Ruhe River and rushed to the foot of the mountain. At this time, the plague devil suddenly smelled the strange smell of dogwood and the mellow fragrance of chrysanthemum wine, his face suddenly changed, shivering and afraid to move forward. After a few rounds of fierce fighting, Hengjing stabbed Wenmo to death and eliminated the plague. From then on, the custom of climbing high to avoid epidemic disease has been handed down year after year on September 9 of the lunar calendar.
It is said that in the traditional concept of the Central Plains people, double nine means long life, health and longevity, so people call Double Ninth Festival the old man's day.
There is also historical origin in the Double Ninth Festival. As early as in the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period, Qu Yuan wrote in "a long journey" that "gather Chongyang to enter the Imperial Palace, and observe the capital of the Qing Dynasty from the beginning of the tenth anniversary". During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Pi said in the book of the ninth day and Zhongyao: "when I was about to come to the moon at the age of 'I would suddenly return to the ninth day of September.". Nine is the number of Yang, and the sun and the moon should be the same. The name of the popular Jiaqi is suitable for a long time, so we can enjoy the banquet. 'he has made it clear that Chongyang has a feast. Tao Yuanming of the Jin Dynasty said in the preface of the poem "living in leisure on the ninth day:" living in leisure, love the name of the ninth. The autumn chrysanthemum is in full bloom, while the fermented glutinous rice wine is in full swing, serving Jiuhua in the air, and cherishing words'. Chrysanthemum and wine are also mentioned here, which shows that the custom of drinking and appreciating chrysanthemum has been established in Chongyang day in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, Chongyang was officially designated as a folk festival. To the Ming Dynasty, in September, Chongyang, the imperial palace to eat cake to celebrate, the Emperor himself to the long live mountain, to Chang Qiuzhi, this custom has been spread to the Qing Dynasty.