The Yang number of nine in the I Ching overlaps with the Yang number

In the I Ching, "six" is designated as the Yin number, and "nine" is designated as the Yang number, which is also known as the "extreme number".

In the I Ching, "six" is the yin number and "nine" is the yang number, which is also the "pole number", referring to the height of the sky as "nine weights". The ninth day of September, the sun and the moon are nine, is a double nine, so it is said that "heavy nine", and at the same time is the number of two yang together, so it is called "heavy sun", so this day for the day of the heavy sun.

The ancients believed that the number "nine" for the old Yang, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the so-called "two nine heavy". In the traditional Chinese concept, double nine (long) or life long, healthy and long life of the symbol, so later Chongyang Festival was set up for the only old people's day. The ancients believed that the two yangs were auspicious days. [8]? In ancient times, there was a custom of drinking and seeking longevity on the Chongyang Festival.

Harvest Festival

The origin of the Chongyang Festival can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" in the "Jiuqiu Ji", "(September) ordered the family Zai, agricultural preparations for the harvest, the five kinds of key. Hidden in the god warehouse of the emperor's book, respect and order." "This is also the day, the great feast to the emperor, tasted the sacrifice, told the preparation in the son of heaven." It can be seen that at that time there were already in the September crop harvest time to sacrifice to the emperor of heaven, ancestor worship, in order to thank the emperor of heaven, ancestor grace activities. This is the original form of the Chongyang Festival as a sacrificial activity in ancient times.

The Xijing Miscellany records that Jia Peilan, a courtesan during the Western Han Dynasty, said, "On the ninth day of the ninth month, wear cornelian cherry, eat pom-pom bait, and drink chrysanthemum wine, and the clouds make people live longer." Legend has it that since then, there has been the custom of seeking longevity on the Chongyang Festival. This was influenced by ancient sorcerers (later Taoist priests) who sought longevity and collected medicines to take.

At the same time, there are large-scale drinking and banqueting activities, is by the pre-Qin Dynasty to celebrate the development of the feast of the harvest.

At the same time, there are also large-scale drinking activities, which were developed from the pre-Qin celebration of the harvest. Jing Chu chronicle of the year: "September 9, the four people and the wild drinking feast." Sui Du Gongzhan note cloud: "September 9 banquet, unknown from what generation, but since the station to Song has not changed." The celebration of longevity and feasting formed the basis of the Chongyang Festival.

Ancient rituals to honor Mars

One of the archetypes of the Chongyang Festival is the ancient ritual of honoring the Great Fire. The "Great Fire" star, which was the symbol of the ancient seasonal astrological hosts, receded in September of the autumn season, and the Xia Xiaozheng said that "the fire was inside the month of September", and the recession of the "Great Fire" star not only made the ancient people, who had always taken the Great Fire star as the symbol of seasonal production and seasonal life, to be more and more concerned about the Great Fire star. Seasonal production and seasonal life mark of the ancients lost the coordinates of time, at the same time, the ancient people will be sacred to the fire of the ancient people produce inexplicable fear, the hibernation of the fire god means that the arrival of the long winter,

Therefore, in the "inner fire" season, such as its emergence of the fire ceremony to welcome the fire, the people have to hold a corresponding send-off rituals. Ancient rituals of the situation is difficult to know, but still can be found from the later Chongyang Festival rituals in some of the ancient customary traces. Such as some areas of Jiangnan Chrysanthemum sacrificial stove custom, is the home of the fire god, which can be seen in the ancient September ritual "fire" traces.

Ancient people long Chongyang and on the Si or cold food, September 9 and March 3 as the corresponding spring and autumn festival. Han Liu Xin "Xijing miscellany" said: "March on the Si, September Chongyang, make the girl game, this purification and ablutions to ascend the heights." The correspondence between the last six months, cold food and the sun, is based on the "big fire" as the basis.

With the development of society, people have a new understanding of the seasons, the September ritual of Mars gradually declined, but the people of September due to the attenuation of Yang Qi caused by the natural physical changes still have a special feeling, so the ancient custom of ascending to avoid the taboo is still inherited. If the last (Ching Ming Festival) is a long winter after people out of the room to swim in the festival, then the Chung Yeung is about in the autumn cold to the new, people are about to live in seclusion when the ceremonial significance of the autumn tour, so the folk have the Ching Ming Festival, "trekking", Chung Yeung Festival, "resignation of the green" customs.

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The Chongyang Festival is the most important festival in China.