Today is the Double Ninth Festival, which is an important festival in China. On this day, people climb high and look far and miss their relatives. As the poem says: 'think twice about your family during the holidays. 'why do you want to climb the mountain on Double Ninth Festival?
The origin of the Double Ninth Festival
It turns out that in ancient China, nine is called "Yang number". On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, both of them are Yang numbers, so they are called "double Yang". Chongyang Festival comes from a fairy tale of Taoism: in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a young man named Huanjing in Runan County. He had both parents and a large number of wives and children. Although the days are not good, half the food and half the food can live. No one knew that something bad had happened. There was a plague on both sides of the Ruhe River, and every family fell ill. This year, Huanjing's parents also died.
When Huan Jing was a child, he heard the adults say: 'there is a plague devil living in the Ruhe River. He has to go out to the world every year. It takes the plague wherever it goes. Huan Jing was determined to visit his teachers to learn from friends, fight against the plague and kill the people. It's said that there is a big immortal named Fei Changfang living in the southeast mountain. He packed up and started to study in the mountain.
Fei Changfang gives Huan Jing a demon subduing green dragon sword. Huan Jing got up early and went to bed late. He practiced day and night. Another year later, Huan Jing was practicing his sword. Fei Changfang came to him and said: 'on September 9 this year, the plague of Ruhe River will come out again. You hurry back to your hometown to kill the people. I'll give you a bag of dogwood leaves and a bottle of chrysanthemum wine to let your father rise to the heights and avoid disaster. '
Huan Jing returned to his hometown and called the villagers together. Tell everyone what Dafen said. On September 9, he led his wife, children and fellow villagers to a nearby mountain. Each of the leaves of dogwood was divided into one piece. It was said that the plague devil could not get close to him when he took it with him. He poured out chrysanthemum wine again, and everyone took a peck, saying that he drank chrysanthemum wine and didn't catch the plague. He arranged for the villagers to come home with his demon subduing green dragon sword and sit alone in the house. When the plague devil came, he fought against the demon.
After a while, I only heard the roar of Ruhe River and the strange wind. The plague devil came out of the water and went to the shore. He walked through the village, and there was no one in thousands of families. Suddenly, he looked up and saw that people were gathering on the high mountain. It rushed to the foot of the mountain, only to feel the pungent smell of wine, dogwood rushed to the lungs, dare not climb the mountain, and then turned back to the village. I saw a man sitting upright in the room. He roared forward. Huan Jing saw the plague coming and quickly waved his sword to meet him. After several rounds of fighting, he was defeated by the plague devil, and then ran away. Huan Jing 'whoosh' threw the demon subduing green dragon sword. He saw that the sword was chasing the plague devil with cold light, penetrating his heart and lungs, and plunging the plague devil to the ground.
Since then, the people on both sides of the Ruhe River will no longer be attacked by the plague. The story of September 9 climbing to avoid disaster and Huanjing sword stabbing plague devil has been passed on from father to son and from son to son. Since then, people have been celebrating the Double Ninth Festival and have the custom of climbing high.