The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional harvest season in China. At this time, farmers are busy harvesting crops and celebrating the bumper harvest. Mutton symbolizes abundance and auspiciousness, and eating mutton symbolizes the expectation of a better life in the coming year, hoping for a bumper harvest and a happy family. During the Double Ninth Festival, family and friends get together and share mutton food. While tasting delicious food, we can enhance our feelings and narrow the distance between our hearts.
Eating mutton on the Double Ninth Festival is a custom with a long history, which embodies the unique charm of traditional festivals in China. By eating mutton, we can inherit and carry forward the culture of the Double Ninth Festival, so that more people can understand and agree with this traditional festival. In ancient times, the Double Ninth Festival was regarded as a day to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters. In this meaningful festival, we can taste delicious mutton, feel the charm of traditional culture and have a happy time together.
The custom of Double Ninth Festival
1, meaning to climb the mountain: When the Double Ninth Festival was crisp in autumn, the ancients thought that nine was the largest yang number, which meant that yang was abundant. Mountain climbing is one of the main customs of the Double Ninth Festival. Cake is homophonic with high notes. Eating Chongyang cake means that people go higher, pursue higher goals, and rise step by step, which means a beautiful vision.
2. Auspiciousness: Chongyang cake has fine production technology and rich raw materials, which means good luck and happiness. On the Double Ninth Festival, families get together to make Double Ninth Cake, which symbolizes family harmony and happiness.
3, health and longevity: the ingredients in Chongyang cake have auspicious meanings, such as red dates for precocity, chestnuts for strength, beans for harvest and so on. Eating Chongyang cake means health and longevity. I hope my family and friends are healthy and happy.
4. Respect for the elderly: The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival to respect the elderly. Eating Chongyang cake is also a respect for elders. Sending Chongyang cake to the elders is a respect for the elders, a gratitude for their upbringing, and a blessing for their health, longevity and well-being.