The Chongyang Festival, a traditional Chinese folk festival, is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year. "Nine" number in the "I Ching" for the number of yang, "nine" two yang number is heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; because the sun and the moon are on the nine, so it is also known as "heavy nine The sun and the moon coincide with nine, so it is also called "Chongjiu". Nine nine to the true, the beginning of a yuan, so the ancients believe that the nine suns are auspicious days. So we know what are the customs of the Chongyang Festival?

1, release the paper kite

Release the paper kite is one of the main customs of the South over the Chongyang Festival. As for why people want to release the paper kite (kite) in the Chung Yeung, in addition to the Chung Yeung sky high clouds, light wind and sunshine, the paper kite can easily ride the wind on the climate, there is another saying, Chung Yeung release the paper kite is "put auspicious", "put the blessing", the paper kite fly the better, the The better the kite flies, the stronger the blessing, not only can't break the silk thread, but also do everything possible to protect it, because if the silk thread breaks, the "good luck", "blessing" also drifts into the distance.

2, eat Chung Yeung cake

and climbed high associated with the custom of eating Chung Yeung cake. Chrysanthemum cake, also known as flower cake or Chrysanthemum flower cake, is China's traditional holiday confectionery; as the name suggests, is the festival of the ninth day of the ninth month of the summer calendar, the Chrysanthemum Festival. It is also believed that the cake originated from the custom of ascending the heights on the Chongyang Festival. Because high and cake resonance, as a holiday food, the earliest is to celebrate the harvest of autumn grain, the joy of tasting the new grain intention, and then the folk have climbed high to eat cake, to take the auspicious meaning of step by step to climb high. Chrysanthemum eat cake, symbolizing step by step, unique meaning.

3, sunshine autumn

Chrysanthemum Festival is the best time to enjoy the autumn, some mountainous villages in southern China has retained the "sunshine autumn" features. Go to the countryside to enjoy folklore, see the sunshine autumn, has become a fashion of rural tourism. "Sunshine autumn" is a typical agricultural phenomenon, with strong regional characteristics. In Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui, Jiangxi and other villagers living in mountainous areas, due to the complex terrain, the village flat land is very little, had to use the front and back of the house and their own windowsill roof racks sun, hanging sunshine crops, over time has evolved into a traditional agricultural phenomenon. This villagers drying crops of the special way of life and the scene, and gradually become a painter, photographer chasing the creation of material, and shaping the poetic "sunshine autumn" name.

4, climbing

The Chongyang Festival climbing custom has a long history. Ancient folk in the Chrysanthemum Festival custom, so the Chrysanthemum Festival is also known as the "Festival". Chrysanthemum climbing custom stems from this time the climate characteristics and the ancient worship of mountains. Climbing "quit green" is also derived from the nature of the festival, Chongyang Festival climbing "quit green" and the ancients in the spring of March spring tour "trekking" corresponds to. There is no uniform regulation on the location of climbing, and the places to climb are roughly categorized as high mountains, high buildings, or high platforms. Climbing custom of its origin is roughly four: one is from the ancient worship of mountains; the second is from the "clear gas up, turbid gas sinking" climate; the third is from the high "resignation of the Qing"; the fourth is from the legend "Huanjing mountaineering avoiding disaster".

5, insert Cornus officinalis

Cornus officinalis is an important symbol of the Chongyang Festival, the ancients believed that in the Chongyang Festival this day insert Cornus officinalis can take refuge from disasters. Chrysanthemum Festival insert cornelian cherry custom as early as the Tang Dynasty has been very popular, people or will be worn in the arm cornelian cherry, or as incense bag to the cornelian cherry on the inside of the belt, there are inserted in the head. Most of the people who wear cornelian cherry are women or children, and in some places, men also wear them.

The above is what I know about the customs and time of the Chongyang Festival, partners you still know what customs?