A short historical story of the Chongyang Festival
A short historical story of the Chongyang Festival, traditional culture is the essence of thousands of years passed down, as the children of the Yellow Emperor we need to pass on and carry forward, the Chongyang Festival is also one of them, the following share a short historical story of the Chongyang Festival.
A short historical story of the Chongyang Festival 1
According to legend, a long time ago, there was a god of plague, as long as he appeared, the village would fall sick, the people suffered a lot. There was a young boy named Jingheng, and the plague god took the lives of all his relatives. He vowed to learn spells to defeat the god of plague. He searched around for a famous teacher, braving the distance and hardships of the road, and under the guidance of an immortal crane, he finally found the immortal master with magical magic power on Zhongnan Mountain. He studied for ten years and finally developed an extraordinary martial art.
On this day, the fairy chief called Hengjing to him and said, "Tomorrow is the ninth day of the ninth month, and the God of Plague is going to come out to do evil again, so you should go back to do away with the evils for the people as you have already learned your skills." The fairy chief gave Hengjing a pack of cornelian cherry leaves, a cup of chrysanthemum wine and a sword to cut off the demons, and told Hengjing to ride a fairy crane to hurry back home. Look, the God of Plague killing this side of the village, but there is no one in the village, the God of Plague is wondering, suddenly a cornelianthus incense and chrysanthemum wine gas puffed, smoked him dizzy. He looked up and saw that the villagers were hiding on the mountain, and he was so angry that the God of Pestilence screamed and rushed up the mountain. At this time, Hengjing chased down the mountain with a demon-subduing sword in hand, and in a few rounds he stabbed the God of Plague to death under the sword. The black gas retreated, the people cheered and celebrated the victory on the top of the mountain. Since then, the activity of ascending the mountain on the ninth day of the ninth month has been passed down year after year.
A short story of the history of the Chung Yeung Festival 2
Folklore: the nine sections of calamus: Legend has it that the Chung Yeung Festival custom of ascending to the heights began with the Qin Emperor's order of the magician Zheng Anzhi to go to the south of the mountain to find the medicine of immortality, Zheng Anzhi in the Baiyun Mountain to find the nine sections of calamus, the unfortunate fall off the cliff, take the crane to fly up.
The mountain to bring back lightning and fire: the ancients believed that the mountains are covered with clouds and mist, for the call of the wind and rain to call the thunder and lightning of the divine dragon lives. Moreover, the thunder and lightning in the mountains can bring fire, and the use of fire can be used to eat the fishy cooked food.
Expanded
Chung Yeung Festival is almost at the end of the year in the last of the most important traditional festivals, it is with the New Year's Eve, Ching Ming, in the first year, and is known as the four major traditional Chinese ancestor festivals - which can be seen in the ancient people in the heart of the important position of the Chong Yang Festival. It is the last and most important traditional festival at the end of the year.
Ancient China was an agrarian society, an agricultural civilization, a form of civilization that attached great importance to the experience of ancestors, because it was necessary to rely on the lessons learned by the previous generation, the wisdom of the ancestors to cultivate planting, which led to the formation of a cultural psychology of ancestor worship.
Ancient Chinese people, for the ancestors of unlimited respect, for the sacrifice of . The ancient Chinese, with their infinite respect for ancestors and their high regard for rituals, all came from the roots of this civilization. Since ancestor worship is so important, the Chongyang Festival can be included in one of the "four major ancestor festivals", it can be seen that the festival's status is very high, the weight of the festival.
A short story of the history of the Chongyang Festival 3
The culture of the Chongyang Festival has a history of two to three thousand years, and there are many folk legends that have been passed down in Xixia so far. One of the most widely circulated and influential is the legend of Princess Chongyang.
According to the "Book of Han" records, the Eastern Han Dynasty, An Di years, the palace is pregnant with six niangiang Li by Yan's victim, fled to the west of Luoyang, south of Mount Fuyao Chongyang store. On the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, she gave birth to a daughter, named Chongyang female. Li Niangniang through all the hardships, slowly put Chongyang female raised adults. In the fall of one year, a plague broke out in the area, and both the people in the village and Auntie Li were not spared. On her deathbed, Niang Li told Chongyang Daughter about her life and passed the jade pendant given by Emperor An to her daughter, telling her to find a chance to sue Yan and seek justice for her.
After the death of Li Niangiang, Chongyang Daughter went around to learn from masters and aspired to kill the plague demon and avenge her mother's death. A Taoist was touched by her spirit, carefully taught swordsmanship, and secretly told the plague of the devil's four weaknesses: a fear of red, the second fear of alcohol, the third fear of irritating odors, and the fourth fear of loud voices, so that the Chongyang female next year, September 9 when the plague of the devil reappeared to see the opportunity to act, and for the people to get rid of the harm. The next year on September 9, the day, Chongyang female organization near the people climbed the cloud-colored mountain, female head inserted red dogwood, dogwood fruit is red, the leaves emit a strange smell, men drink chrysanthemum wine, the plague demon appeared on the voice of the people shouted: "eradicate the plague demon, peace in the world". When the plague demon saw the red color, smelled the wine and the strange smell, and heard the shouts, he shrunk into a ball, and the Chongyang woman stabbed the plague demon to death. From then on, the people in the area of Chongyang Store lived in peace and happiness and had a long and healthy life.
The story spread to the capital, and Emperor An sent eunuchs to inspect the area, saw Chongyang woman and the jade pendant, and reported to Emperor An. Emperor An summoned Chongyang Daughter to the capital to meet him, and father and daughter embraced and cried. Later, Emperor An deposed Yan, built a temple dedicated to Li Niangniang, and crowned Chongyang Daughter as Princess Chongyang. Emperor An to stay Chongyang female in the palace, Chongyang Princess to mother buried in Chongyang, festivals to go to pay homage to the reason, insisted on returning to live in Chongyang store. However, every year around September 9, will bring chrysanthemums, cornelian cherry and chrysanthemum wine, cornelian cherry wine back to the capital once, filial piety to his father, by the way, the local climbing, chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum wine, insert cornelian cherry and other folklore into the palace.
Princess Chrysanthemum was born in Chrysanthemum, grew up in Chrysanthemum, and married in Chrysanthemum, gave birth to a son, and died at the age of 100. The local people repaired the Chongyang Taoist Temple for Princess Chongyang, and came to worship on Chongyang Festival every year.