in order to seek longevity; after Mrs. Qi, the beloved consort of Liu Bang, Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, was tragically murdered by Empress Lu, the courtesan Jia Mou was also expelled from the palace, which introduced this custom to the folk.
Anciently, the folk on the day of the custom of climbing high, so the Chongyang Festival is also called "high festival". It is rumored that this custom began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty has a lot of poems about ascending heights, and most of them are about the customs of the Chongyang Festival; Du Fu's "Ascending Heights" is a famous poem about ascending heights on the Chongyang Festival. There is no one rule for where to go
generally, it is to climb high mountains and towers. There is also the custom of eating "Chongyang cake". The delicate Chrysanthemum cake to be made into nine layers, like a pagoda, the top is also made into two
sheep, in line with the meaning of the Chrysanthemum (sheep). Some also inserted a small red paper flag on the cake, and light candles. This is probably to "light lamps", "
eat cake" instead of "high", with a small red paper flag instead of cornelian cherry.
Chrysanthemum Festival also appreciate chrysanthemum drinking wine, originated in Tao Yuanming. Tao Yuanming famous for seclusion, famous for poetry, famous for wine, but also famous for love of chrysanthemums; after
People effect, so there is the custom of Chrysanthemum Appreciation on the Chrysanthemum Festival. In the old days, the scholarly officials also combined chrysanthemum-appreciation with banquets and drinks, in order to get closer to Tao Yuanming. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the capital city of Kaifeng
, chrysanthemum appreciation was very popular, and there were many kinds of chrysanthemums at that time. After the Qing Dynasty, chrysanthemum appreciation custom is particularly prosperous, and not limited to September 9, but still
is the most prosperous before and after the Chongyang Festival.
The custom of inserting cornelian cherry at the Chongyang Festival was already common in the Tang Dynasty. Ancient people believed that in the Chongyang Festival this day insert cornelian cherry can take refuge from disasters; or wear in the arm
, or as incense bag to put the cornelian cherry inside the belt, there are also inserted in the head. Most of them are worn by women and children, and in some places, men also wear them.
Cornelian cherry blossoms are worn on the Chongyang Festival, which was recorded in Ge Hong's "Miscellaneous Records of the Western Scriptures" in the Jin Dynasty.
In addition to wearing cornelian cherry on the Chongyang Festival, chrysanthemums are also inserted. This was already the case in the Tang Dynasty and has been prevalent throughout the ages. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of the Chongyang Festival in Beijing was to stick chrysanthemum branches and leaves
on doors and windows, "to lift the evil and to attract good luck." This is a variation of the head hairpin chrysanthemum. Song Dynasty, there will be colorful silk cut into cornelian cherry, chrysanthemum to give each other to wear
.
The origin of the Chongyang Festival is related to the legend of the story (Chongyang Festival from the Taoist story of a fairy):
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a young man named Huanjing in RuNan County, with two parents and a large family of wives and children. Although the day is not good, half food
half grain can get by. Who knows the unfortunate thing came. The plague has spread to both sides of the River Rouge, and all the families are sick, with no one burying their bodies everywhere.
This year, Huan Jing's parents also died.
When Huanjing was a child, he heard his elders say: "There is a plague demon living in the River Ru, and every year it comes out to visit the earth. Every year, it would come out and visit the earth, and wherever it went, it would bring the plague with it
. Huanjing was determined to learn the skills of the plague demon and fight the plague demon to get rid of the pestilence for the people. When he heard that a great immortal named Fei Changfang lived in the mountains in the southeast, he
packed up and traveled to the mountains to learn from his master.
Fei Changfang gave Huanjing a Demon Busting Green Dragon Sword. Huanjing woke up early and went to bed late, wearing stars and moonlight, practicing day and night.
Huan Jing was practicing his sword when Fei Changfang came to him and said, "On September 9 of this year, the plague demon of the River Ru will come out again. You should hurry back to your hometown to get rid of the plague for the people. I'll give you a pack of cornelian cherry leaves and a bottle of chrysanthemum wine, so that your hometown fathers and mothers can ascend the heights to avoid the disaster." When the immortal master said that, he pointed with his hand and an immortal crane flew with wings and landed in front of Huan
Jing. Huan Jing straddled the crane and flew toward Ru Nan.
Huan Jing returned to his hometown and gathered the townspeople. He told the people about the words of the Great Immortal. On the ninth day of the ninth month, he led his wife and children, the townspeople and the elders up
a nearby mountain. He divided a piece of cornelian cherry leaf among them, saying that if he carried it with him, the plague would not dare to come near him. He also poured out chrysanthemum wine, and each person
pecked a mouthful of it, saying that if he drank the chrysanthemum wine, he would not be infected with the plague disease. He arranged the townspeople well, and returned home with his Demon Busting Green Dragon Sword, and sat alone in the house
, waiting for the plague demon to come to engage in battle to lower the demon.
Not long ago, only to hear the roar of the Ru River, the strange wind swirling up. The plague demon came out of the water and walked up the bank, through the village, and walked through thousands of houses and didn't see a single person
Suddenly, it looked up and saw that the people were all gathering on the high mountain. It scurried to the bottom of the mountain, only to feel the smell of wine pungent, cornelian lungs, not dare to come close to climb the mountain, and then
turned back to the village. Only to see a man is sitting in the house. Then he roared and lunged forward. As soon as Huanjing saw the plague demon pouncing, he hurriedly danced his sword to meet the battle.
After a few rounds of fighting, the plague demon was unable to defeat him and ran away. Huanjing threw out his sword with a whoosh sound, and saw the sword flashing with a cold light as it chased after the plague
demon, piercing through the heart and lungs to bring the plague demon down to the ground.
After that, the people on both sides of the Ru River were no longer victimized by the plague. The people of the 9th of September, Huanjing's sword stabbed the plague demon, the father passed on
son, son passed on the grandson, and has been passed on to the present day. Since then, people have been living the Chongyang Festival, with the custom of ascending the heights on the ninth day of the ninth month.
Customs of Chongyang Festival activities:
Golden Autumn, Dan Gui fragrance, the first nine days of September in the lunar calendar, Chongyang Festival, rich in activities, fun, there are to climb, chrysanthemum, drink chrysanthemum wine
, eat Chongyang cake, dogwood, and so on.
Denggao
In ancient times, the folk in the Chung Yeung has the custom of climbing high, so the Chung Yeung Festival is also known as "Denggao Festival". It is rumored that this custom began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty literati wrote
a lot of poems about ascending heights, most of which are about the customs of the Chongyang Festival; Du Fu's seven rhymes, "Ascending Heights," is a famous piece of writing about ascending heights on the Chongyang Festival. There is no standardized rule on where to go,
generally it is to climb high mountains and high towers. There is also the custom of eating "Chongyang cake".
Eat Chung Yeung cake
According to historical records, Chung Yeung cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, five-color cake, the system is not fixed, more random. September 9 when the sky is bright, to piece of cake on
children's forehead, the mouth read the words, wishing their children all things high, is the ancient September for the cake's original intention. The delicate Chongyang cake to be made into nine layers, like a
pagoda, above also made into two small sheep, in line with the meaning of Chongyang (sheep). Some also insert a small red paper flag on the cake, and light candles. This
probably with "light", "eat cake" instead of "high" meaning, with a small red paper flag instead of cornelian cherry. Today's Chongyang cake, there is still no fixed varieties
, everywhere in the Chongyang Festival to eat fluffy cakes are called Chongyang cake.
Admiring chrysanthemums and drinking chrysanthemum wine
The Chrysanthemum Festival is the time of year when chrysanthemums are in full bloom, and it is rumored that admiring chrysanthemums and drinking chrysanthemum wine originated in the Jin Dynasty with the great poet Tao Yuanming. Tao Yuanming was famous for
being a recluse, famous for his poetry, famous for his wine, and famous for his love of chrysanthemums; later generations followed his example, and there was the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums at the Chung Yeung Festival. In the olden days, the literati also combined
chrysanthemum appreciation with banquets and drinks, in order to get closer to Tao Yuanming. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the capital city of Kaifeng, the chrysanthemum appreciation of the Chrysanthemum was prevalent, and the chrysanthemums at that time had a lot of varieties,
thousands of different shapes and sizes. Folk also called the ninth month of the lunar calendar "the month of chrysanthemums", and in the Chrysanthemum Festival where chrysanthemums blossomed, chrysanthemum viewing became an important part of the festival.
Contents of the festival. After the Qing Dynasty, chrysanthemum viewing was especially popular, and it was not limited to September 9, but it was still the most popular before and after the Chrysanthemum Festival.
Plugging cornelian cherry and hairpin chrysanthemum
The custom of plugging cornelian cherry at the Chongyang Festival was already common in the Tang Dynasty. Ancient people believed that inserting cornelian cherry on the day of Chongyang Festival could protect against disasters; or wearing
in the arm, or making incense bags to put cornelian cherry inside the belt, and inserted in the head. Most of them are worn by women and children, and in some places, men also wear them
. Chrysanthemum Festival to wear cornelian cherry, in the Jin Dynasty Ge Hong "Western Scripture Miscellany" in the record. In addition to wearing cornelian cherry, people also wear chrysanthemums on their heads. This was already
done in the Tang Dynasty and has been prevalent throughout the ages. In the Qing Dynasty, Beijing's Chrysanthemum Festival custom was to put chrysanthemum branches and leaves on doors and windows to "lift the evil and attract good luck". This is
head hairpin chrysanthemum variant. Song Dynasty, there will be colorful silk cut into cornelian cherry, chrysanthemum to give each other to wear.
Customs of Chung Yeung Festival
In addition to the above more common customs, there are also some unique forms of festivals. Grain ah, surimi ah, on
ah on the field". Shaanbei over the Chongyang in the evening, during the day is a full day of harvesting, playing field. At night, the moon over the treetops, people love to enjoy buckwheat boiled goat
meat, to eat dinner, people out of their homes in twos and threes, climbed the nearby hills, lit a fire, talk about the sky and the earth, to be the chickens call before going home.
Night
hiking, many people are picking a few handfuls of wild chrysanthemums, go home and inserted in the head of their daughters in order to ward off evil spirits.
PuXian in Fujian, people follow the old custom, to steam nine layers of Chongyang rice fruit, China's ancient times have Chongyang "food bait" custom, "bait" that is today's
pastries, rice fruit and so on. Song Dynasty "Jade Candle BaoDian" cloud: "nine days of food bait, drink chrysanthemum wine, when the millet, broomcorn millet and harvest, in order to stick to the rice flavor touch class
taste new, and then become a habit. Early Qing Dynasty Putian poet Song Zuqian "Min wine song" said: "I was shocked to hear that the festival near Chung Yeung, the hand basket pick up wild incense. Pestle and mortar pounded into
green powder wet, the pearls of call Lang taste. In recent times, people have adapted the rice fruit into a very distinctive nine-fold rice fruit. High-quality late rice with clear
water washing, soaking for 2 hours, fishing out and draining, mixed with water and ground into a thin pulp, add alum (dissolved in water) mixing, plus red plate sugar (mixed with water to boil into a sugar thick
liquid), and then placed in a steamer in the pot, laying on a clean cooking cloth, and then divided into nine, scooped into the rice fruit pulp, steamed for a number of hours that is cooked out of the cage, the surface of the rice fruit smeared with
peanut oil. This rice fruit in nine overlapping layers, can be uncovered, cut into rhombus, the four sides of the hierarchy, was translucent body, eaten sweet and soft to the mouth, and does not stick
Teeth, can be called the best gift to honor the elderly Chung Yeung food.
Some local people also have the opportunity to take advantage of the Chung Yeung mountaineering, sweeping ancestral tombs, to commemorate the ancestors. Putian people to Chongyang ancestor worship more than the Qingming,
There is a March for the small Qingming, the ninth for the big Qingming said. Because of the Putian coast, the ninth day of the ninth month is also the anniversary of Mazu's ascension to heaven, the townspeople more
To the Mazu Temple in Meizhou or the port of Tianhou Ancestral Shrine, the temple, and pray for blessings.
After the founding of New China, the Chrysanthemum Festival was enriched with new activities, and in 1989, it was designated as the Day of the Elderly. The first to this day, all over the
will organize the elderly mountaineering autumn excursions, broaden their horizons, exchange of feelings, exercise, and cultivate people to return to nature, love of the motherland's great mountains and rivers of the
northern virtues.
Changyang poetry:
Cai Sang Zi 重阳
Mao Zedong
Life is easy, God is hard to old, years of years,
Today and again, the sun, the yellow flowers of the battlefield is very fragrant.
Once a year the autumn wind is strong, not like the spring light,
Something like the spring light, the lonesome river sky ten thousand miles of frost.
Memories of Shandong Brothers on the 9th of September
Tang Dynasty (Tang Dynasty) Wang Wei
It's a strange country to be a guest in a foreign land, and I think of my relatives twice as much when I am in a festive season.
It's a good thing that I know where my brothers are, and I know that they are less likely to be found on the Cornucopia.
Du Mu (Tang Dynasty)
Jianghan Autumn Shadow Geese first flew, and the guest carried a pot to Cuiwei.
It's hard to meet people in the world and laugh at them, and the chrysanthemums have to be inserted all over their heads.
But I'm not going to be able to get a tincture of Mo?t and Mo?t to pay for the festivities, and I'm not going to be able to climb up and hate the sunshine.
This is the only way in the history of the world, so why should I be alone in Oxford?
September 10th
Tang (Li Bai)
Yesterday, I climbed to the top of the mountain, but today I will raise my goblet again.
The chrysanthemum flower is too bitter to suffer from this double sunshine.
September 9, Xuanwu Mountain travel overlook
Tang Dynasty) Lu Zhaolin
September 9, overlook the mountains and rivers, return to the heart to look at the accumulation of wind and smoke.
This is the first time I've ever seen a woman in a country where I've seen the golden flower of wine, and where I've been saddened by the sadness of the wild geese and the sky.
Nine Days in Shu
(Tang) Wang Bo
September 9, looking at the township platform, his seat in the countryside to send guests cup.
The people are tired of the pain in the south, and the geese are coming from the north.
September 9th
(Tang) Wang Jin
More than Kyoto, the grass has been withered in August frost.
Today, I climbed up to the top of the mountain and bottled wine, but I don't know if I can have chrysanthemums.
Nine Days
(Tang) Yang Heng
Yellow flowers and purple chrysanthemums fall along the hedges.
It is not easy to look at the countryside today, so I have to insert a cornelian cherry with the crowd.
Binghe nine days of the lucky Linwei Pavilion climbed high to get branch word
Wei Anshi
The ninth anniversary of the opening of the autumn festival, to get a move Chen Yi.
The golden wind is blowing the chrysanthemums, and the jade dew is weeping the cornelian cherry branches.
Review of the eight? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.
This is the first time I've ever seen a woman in the world who has been in the world for a long time, and I've never seen her in the world for a long time.
Drunken Flower Shade
(Song) Li Qingzhao
The mist and thick clouds are worrying about the eternal day, the Rui Brain pinned the golden beast.
The festive season is again the second day of the year, and the jade pillow and gauze cupboard, the middle of the night cool through.
Don't worry, I'm not going to be able to get a good look at you, but I'm going to be able to get a good look at you.
There is no way I can't be happy with the way I look at you!
Yangzhou in Chang'an also September 9, line Weishan Pavilion fugue rhyme
(South Chen) Jiang always
Heart chasing the southern clouds died, the shape with the northern geese to come.
The chrysanthemums under the hedge in my hometown, how many flowers are blooming today?
Drunk with the east wind, the 9th anniversary of the reunification
(Yuan) Guan Hanqing
The title of the red leaves and clear flow of the Royal Gully, and the yellow flowers of the people drunk on the song building.
The sky is long and the shadow of geese is scarce, the moon is falling and the mountains are thin.
Cold and clear in the twilight of the fall, the decaying willows and cold cicadas a piece of sadness,
Who is willing to teach the white clothes to send wine.
Nine days
(Ming) Wensen
Three years ago, the chrysanthemum was not at home when it opened.
When would I expect to drink today's wine, and suddenly I am facing the flowers in my old garden?
There are clouds in the open field, and geese gather in the sand in the cold sky.
Where can I look at the Beijing Capital when I visit the city
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