The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival in China. The seventh Zen is Yang, the ninth is the largest Yang, and the ninth is Chongyang. The Double Ninth Festival was celebrated during the Warring States Period. For example, in Qu Yuan's Travel Notes in the Far East, there is a saying that "Gathering the Double Ninth Festival is the emperor's official Xi", which shows that Qu Yuan's generation is used to the Double Ninth Festival.

First of all, enjoy chrysanthemums.

On the Double Ninth Festival, there has always been the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums, so it was also called Chrysanthemum Festival in ancient times. Chrysanthemum is a natural flower. Because of its bright colors, Ao Shuang is in full bloom, forming a chrysanthemum culture of appreciating and praising chrysanthemums. In September of the lunar calendar, commonly known as Chrysanthemum Month, there is a chrysanthemum meeting on holidays, and people from all over the city go to the meeting to enjoy chrysanthemums.

In the ancient customs of China, chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity, and is also praised by scholars as the unyielding symbol of first frost. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the Three Kingdoms, it has become a fashion for Chongyang parties to drink and admire chrysanthemums and compose poems.

Second, ancestor worship.

Double Ninth Festival is one of the four traditional ancestral festivals in China. In ancient times, there was a tradition of praying for the ancestors, especially in Lingnan area, people held ancestor worship activities every year on the Double Ninth Festival. Sacrificing ancestors and looking far up the mountain are to enhance people's cultural identity and strengthen the cohesion of family and society. However, with the development of history, many local people's concept of ancestor worship in Chongyang has become increasingly weak.

Third, drinking alcohol.

In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was regarded as the "auspicious wine" that Chongyang must drink to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings. Therefore, the Double Ninth Festival has always kept the custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine. Until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, chrysanthemum wine was still very popular, and it was still recorded in Gao Lian's Eight Chapters of Respect for Life in the Ming Dynasty. This is a popular health drink.

In Song Dynasty, people used chrysanthemum and dogwood to soak wine, and named dogwood "to ward off evil spirits" and chrysanthemum "to prolong life". They thought they could eliminate the "evil of Yang Jiu". There is still a folk nursery rhyme circulating in Shandong today: "On the ninth day of September, the Double Ninth Festival, chrysanthemums are full of wine."

Fourth, climb the mountain.

Mountain climbing is an important custom of the Double Ninth Festival. In the Han dynasty, this custom came from the story that Huanjing, a native of Runan, climbed a mountain on September 9 to avoid disaster. During the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the date of mountaineering was set on September 9th. The Chronicle of Jingchu said that on September 9, people from all walks of life went to the suburbs to climb mountains and hold a banquet to drink.

Fly a kite.

Flying kites is the main custom of celebrating the Double Ninth Festival in the south. The folk Double Ninth Festival is characterized by flying kites. Guangxu's "Huizhou Fuzhi" is also recorded. Paper kites are kites now. In the folk tradition, besides climbing mountains, flying kites is also a major feature of the Double Ninth Festival.

Paper kite is also a modern kite. Five dynasties ago, the north used to call it a "paper kite" and the south used to call it a "kite". The appellation of "paper kite" in Huizhou obviously retains the ancient appellation of five dynasties ago, and has the flavor of "a mixture of north and south".

What are the traditional customs of the Double Ninth Festival?

1, climb up. Mountain climbing is one of the oldest customs of the Double Ninth Festival. How wonderful it is to climb mountains, overlook all beings, feel the natural and carefree atmosphere and relax. There are two other sayings that Chongyang climbs mountains. One is people's respect for Guanshan Mountain, and the other is from the saying that Hengjing climbed the mountain to avoid disaster and kill the plague god.

2, eat Chongyang cake. The custom of eating Chongyang cake on the Double Ninth Festival originated in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. At that time, flour cakes were called chrysanthemum cakes in the Tang Dynasty, Chongyang cakes in the Song Dynasty and flower cakes in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The word "cake" is homophonic with "high" in the Double Ninth Festival. Eating cakes when climbing on the Double Ninth Festival symbolizes climbing step by step, which means "climbing step by step".

3, bask in the autumn. The so-called autumn sunshine means that some villagers in mountainous areas have to hang crops on the windowsill in front of and behind their houses because of the lack of flat land and complex terrain. Over time, a special folk activity has been formed. Many painters or photographers will also go to the mountains during the festival to find good materials.

4. Ancestor worship. During the festival, all kinds of ancestor worship activities will be held all over the country, such as burning paper money in the cemetery, cleaning the cemetery, preparing some offerings at home, offering incense and worshipping, and so on. Although the activities are in different forms, the information conveyed is the same. It expresses the memory of the deceased ancestors and also reflects the profound cohesion of Chinese culture.

5. Fly a kite. During the Double Ninth Festival, the weather is fine, so people will fly kites outdoors. Kites will have a variety of shapes, meaning happiness, but also represents the soaring wings. This activity will be held by the whole family, so it will also help to strengthen the feelings between families and make the family atmosphere more harmonious.

What traditional customs do Hengshui people have?

A year's plan lies in spring, and "beginning of spring" is the first day of spring, which symbolizes the beginning of people's labor for a year. Therefore, there are programs in Hengshui rural areas around beginning of spring wishing a bumper harvest this year. As a traditional agricultural area, Hengshui has also created its own unique programs, mainly "biting the spring" and "making up the position". From the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, there were records of "biting the spring" and "filling the position" in the annals of Hengshui County and Zaoqiang County. "Hengshui County Records" wrote: "beginning of spring" is the first day, and the eastern suburbs welcome the spring. According to their abilities, rural men and women are full of joy. On this day, spitting spring cakes and eating radishes is called "biting spring". In other words, people began to celebrate the day before in beginning of spring, mainly in the form of celebrating together, while "beginning of spring" mainly celebrated festivals at home. According to the above description, it can be judged that "biting spring" is not a small festival for local residents, and similar activities are also held in other places. "Zaoqiang County Records" records: "On beginning of spring Day, radish is a fine dish, and noodles are eaten as spring cakes, which is called' biting spring'". Up to now, this custom has basically been handed down. In fact, on the day of "beginning of spring", all families may not make spring cakes, but they should upgrade to a higher level to show that every day in the coming year can be as rich as today. "Filling positions", commonly known as "encirclement", is the most completely preserved custom at present. It is recorded in Hengshui County Records that painting the ground gray on the 25th and putting some grain and wheat in it is called "filling the warehouse", which is a sign of prosperity. Now Hengshui people still paint circles in the yard with ash on the morning of the 25th day of the first month to show that they are hoarding grain, and put some grain on the middle brick to show that this year will be a bumper harvest year.