The Origin of the Double Ninth Festival

1. The Double Ninth Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena. It started in ancient times, became popular in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished after the Tang Dynasty. According to the existing historical data and textual research, in ancient times, there were activities to hold harvest sacrifices to heaven and ancestors in the autumn season; "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals of the Season" records that the ancients held sacrifices to the emperor and ancestors in September when the crops were harvested, to thank the emperor and the ancestors. Activities of ancestral kindness. This is the original form of the Double Ninth Festival as an autumn harvest sacrificial event. The Tang Dynasty was an important period when traditional festival customs were integrated and finalized, and the main part of them has been passed down to this day. The folk custom of worshiping ancestors during the Double Ninth Festival has been around for thousands of years and is an ancient folk custom with profound significance. The Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival and July Half are also known as the four traditional ancestor worship festivals in China.

2. The Double Ninth Festival refers to the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. It is a traditional Chinese folk festival. Legend has it that during the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a man named Huan Jing in Runan County. The plague was rampant where he lived, and Huan Jing's parents were killed by the plague. In order to get rid of the plague demon, Huan Jing went to Southeast Mountain to learn from his master. The immortal Fei Changfang gave Huan Jing a demon-slaying blue dragon sword. Huan Jing got up early and went to bed late, wearing the stars and the moon, studying hard and practicing hard. One day, Fei Changfang gave Huanjing a pack of dogwood leaves and a bottle of chrysanthemum wine, and asked the folks in his hometown to climb high to avoid disaster. Huan Jing left Southeast Mountain and returned to his hometown. On September 9, he led his wife, children and fellow villagers to a nearby mountain. Huan Jing distributed dogwood leaves to everyone to take with them, so that the plague demon did not dare to get close. Then he poured out the chrysanthemum wine and everyone took a sip to avoid catching the plague. Huan Jing fought the plague demon alone and finally killed the plague demon. Since then, people have celebrated the Double Ninth Festival and had the custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival.