Q: Which character is associated with the legend of Chongyang Festival?

A: The legend of Chongyang Festival related characters: Huanjing and Fei Changfang.

Myth of the Chongyang Festival:

Ru Nan Huan Jing with Fei Changfang traveled for many years, Changfang said: "September 9, your home when there is a disaster. It is advisable to go quickly, so that the family members of each made Jiang bag, full of cornelian cherry, in order to tie the arm, climbed up and drank chrysanthemum wine, this disaster can be eliminated." Jing as said, the family climbed the mountain. Evening still, see the chickens, dogs, cows and goats die a violent death. Changfang heard: "This can be replaced." Now the world nine days to drink wine, women with cornelian cherry bladder, cover began here.

Myths and legends of the Chung Yeung Festival:

The Liang dynasty Wu Junzhi "continued Qi Harmony": Legend has it that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ru Nan County, there is a man named Huan Jing, he lived in the place suddenly occurred a plague, Huan Jing's parents also died of disease, so he went to the southeast mountain to learn from the teacher, the immortal Fei Changfang gave Huan Jing a demonic Green Dragon Sword. Huanjing woke up early, slept late, wore stars and moonlight, and practiced hard.

One day, Fei Changfang said, "September 9, the plague demon again, you can go back to get rid of the harm." And he gave him a bag of cornelian cherry leaves and a bottle of chrysanthemum wine, so that his hometown fathers and mothers could ascend the heights to avoid the disaster. So he left to go back to his hometown, the ninth day of the ninth month, he led his wife and children, folks and old folks climbed a nearby mountain. He distributed the cornelian cherry leaves to all of them and carried them with him, so that the evil spirits would not dare to come near him. And the chrysanthemum wine poured out, each person drank a mouthful, to avoid contracting the plague.

He fought with the plague demon and finally killed it. The people on both sides of the Ru River then passed down the story of ascending to the heights on the 9th day of the 9th month to avoid the plague and Huanjing stabbing the plague demon with his sword until now. Since then, people have celebrated the Chongyang Festival with the custom of ascending the heights on the ninth day of the ninth month.

The Tang Dynasty's "Chuxueji" and the Song Dynasty's "Taiping Yuban" and many other important books relayed the story in Wu Jun's "Renewal of Qi Harmonious Records" and believed that the custom of ascending to a high altitude on the ninth day of the ninth month to drink chrysanthemum wine, and the women tied a cornelian cherry bladder to ward off evil spirits and calamities on the arm came from this custom.