The legend of Chongyang Festival is related to Huanjing, a native of Runan in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

An earlier legend about the Chongyang Festival is found in the Liang Dynasty's Wu Jun's "Continuation of the Qi Harmony Chronicle": Huan Jing of RuNan traveled with Fei ChangFang for many years, and ChangFang said, "On September 9, there will be a disaster in your home. It is advisable to go quickly, so that the family members to make Jiang bag, holding cornelian cherry, to tie the arm, climbed high 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." Today, the world nine days to drink wine, women with cornelian cherry bladder, cover began here.

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The Chrysanthemum Festival is the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, "nine nine" and "long" homophonic, as Cao Pi said, "it is desirable to long! As Cao Pi said, "It is desirable to be long-lasting", which is consistent with people's pursuit of a long and healthy life, and naturally fits with the traditional virtue of honoring the elderly and filial piety. "Old as we are old and the old man", the Chinese nation since ancient times has a tradition of respect for the elderly, the Chongyang Festival as a festival to express the feelings of respect for the elderly and filial piety, since the reason.

In many places in Shaanxi, the day of the Chongyang Festival, there is the custom of eating longevity noodles, but also the first bowl of longevity noodles to the elderly at home to eat first, and long and thin longevity noodles express people's blessings on the elderly health and longevity of the good wishes. Chongyang Temple Fair, there are home to the elderly, elders to buy winter clothing tradition. In Shanxi, some places, the Chongyang Festival, but also to invite the troupe to sing five days of opera, the content of most of the old, filial piety, in order to delight the elderly.

Because of this, in 2012, our government stipulated that the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year for the elderly, the Chongyang Festival of respect for the elderly and filial piety customs once again come to the fore and vigorously promote.