It's the ninth Double Ninth Festival. It's the ninth Double Ninth Festival. It's not only a day for dogwood, but also a day for sacrifice. However, we should pay attention to some geomantic taboos and know some basic precautions in Chongyang Festival.
The origin of Chongyang Festival
It's also called Climbing Festival, chrysanthemum Festival, dogwood Festival, also known as the Double Ninth Festival of the old man's day. First of all, there is the custom of climbing high. It's golden autumn and September. The sky is clear and fresh. This season, climbing high and looking far can achieve the purpose of relaxing, keeping fit and eliminating diseases. There has always been a custom of enjoying chrysanthemum, so it's also called chrysanthemum festival in ancient times. September of the lunar calendar is commonly known as the chrysanthemum moon. Chrysanthemum assembly is held in the festival. The crowds of people come to the festival to enjoy chrysanthemums. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties of the Three Kingdoms, it has become a fashion for Chongyang to have party drinking and enjoy chrysanthemum poems. In the ancient customs of the Han nationality, chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity. In ancient times, it was also popular to insert dogwood, so it is also called dogwood Festival. Cornus can be used as medicine to make wine to nourish the body and eliminate diseases. In 1989, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month was designated as the old people's day in China, which advocated the whole society to establish the atmosphere of respecting, respecting, loving and helping the old. The Double Ninth Festival has a new meaning.
What are the precautions for the sacrifice of Chongyang Festival?
1、 The order of worship is to visit the tomb first
To clean the cemetery. The second is sacrifice. This process is very important. One is to express sadness. The other is to feel with the ancestors. Because the mountains have spirit but no lord, the ancestors have God but no spirit. Feeling with the ancestors can better get the spirit of the mountains and rivers. This is Fengshui. During tomb sweeping, people bring wine, fruit, paper money and other articles to the cemetery, offer food for sacrifice in front of their relatives' tombs, burn the paper money, plant new soil for the tomb, repair the tomb, fold a few green new branches and insert them in the tomb, and press some paper money on it for others to see, know that there are descendants in the tomb, and then kowtow and worship.
2、 Don't laugh or scold when sweeping the grave
Because the cemetery is the place where the spirits live, it is not allowed to stride over the graves and offerings, make loud noises, laugh and scold, profanity, run around and touch, urinate everywhere, which is not only disrespectful to their ancestors, but also a nuisance to the nearby spirits. We can't trample on other tombs or comment on the design of tombs. It will be regarded as blasphemy. If we encounter a bad atmosphere, we will get into trouble and go home.
3、 Do not eat food or vegetables
When you start to visit the tomb, you'd better not eat food or vegetables, and dress neatly to show politeness and respect for your ancestors.
4、 Sacrifice to ancestors should be held in person in the cemetery
But for various reasons, many people can't go back to their hometown to participate in the Qingming mountain worship activities, so they can also worship their ancestors at home. The method is to place the food for worship on the balcony or living room in the direction of hometown, burn three incense sticks, bow three times, and recite the relevant words silently. Then, we burn paper money to sacrifice.