Chongyang Festival is also known as:

The Festival of Respect for the Elderly, Chrysanthemum Appreciation Festival, Cornus Festival, Chrysanthemum Festival, Sunshine Autumn Festival, Chrysanthemum Festival, Treading Autumn Festival, and Daughter's Festival.

The Chongyang Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year. In ancient times, the folk in the Chongyang Festival have climbed high to pray for blessings, autumn tour to enjoy chrysanthemums, wear dogwood, worship and ancestor worship and feast to pray for life and other customs. Nowadays, it has added the connotation of respecting the elderly and enjoying the feast on the day of the Chongyang Festival to give thanks and respect to the elderly. The two important themes of the Chrysanthemum Festival today are the appreciation of the autumn and the thanksgiving and respect for the elderly.

Changyang Festival ****7 kinds of call

1, heavy nine festival: because the old "I Ching" in the "six" as the number of yin, the "nine

2, Treading Autumn Festival: Chrysanthemum is also known as "Treading Autumn", and March 3, "Treading Spring" corresponds to. According to tradition, all the relatives on the day of the Chongyang to ascend together to "avoid disaster", insert dogwood, chrysanthemums, modern society, many traditions in the change, but the Chongyang ascension is still prevalent.

3, Daughter's Day: If there is a woman newly married, the mother's family must be presented with the Chrysanthemum flag and seasonal box, known as sending "Chrysanthemum Festival Box". According to the Jin Dynasty, "So Shen Ji" records, Ding's women were ill-treated by their evil mother-in-law, never rest day, unbearable torture, hanged himself on the ninth day of the ninth month, after the death of the spirit of injustice, to tell the world, advise people to treat their daughters-in-law, please let them rest in the Chongyang Festival. So people set up a shrine for Ding's daughters. Later, every Chung Yeung Festival, parents would bring their married daughters back for a reunion, which was called the Daughter's Day, and in essence, it was a rest for the women.

4, the Festival: Chongyang one of the most important festivals, that is, climbing high. There is no standardized rules for where to go, but generally it is to climb high mountains and towers.

5, Chrysanthemum Festival: Chrysanthemum is the flower of longevity, but also for the literati to praise as a symbol of frost unyielding, so people love it, praise it, so often held large-scale chrysanthemum exhibition. Chrysanthemum exhibition is naturally held in Chongyang, because the relationship between chrysanthemum and Chongyang is too deep; therefore, Chongyang is also known as Chrysanthemum Festival, and chrysanthemum is also known as the nine flowers. Appreciating chrysanthemums has also become an integral part of the Chrysanthemum Festival customs.

6, Cornus Festival: The Chrysanthemum Festival is also known as the Cornus Festival because of the custom of wearing dogwood. Cornus is an important symbol of the Chongyang Festival. Folk believe that the first nine days of September is also the day of evil, many disasters, so in the Chongyang Festival people like to wear dogwood to ward off evil spirits and seek good luck. Cornus officinalis is therefore also known as the "evil weng".

7, the Old Man's Day / Old Man's Day / Respect for the Elderly Festival: In folklore, the nine nine suns, because with the "long" homophonic, contains a long life, health and longevity of the symbol, so the Chongyang Festival and the "Old Man's Day" said. "Since the 1980s, some places in China have designated the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar as the Elderly People's Day, advocating that the whole society should establish a culture of respecting, honoring, loving and helping the elderly. In 1989, the Chinese government designated this day as "Senior Citizens' Day" and "Respect for the Elderly Day", and on December 28, 2012, the newly amended Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly was passed. The law specifies that the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar is the Old People's Day every year.

Chongyang FestivalOrigin

Chongyang Festival is a traditional festival with a long history. Due to the long period of time, as with many traditional Chinese festivals, it is not easy to examine and clarify the formation of the festival, but there are numerous sayings about the origin of the festival that have been circulated in folklore. One of them is that the prototype of the festival was an ancient ritual of sacrificing to the "Great Fire".

The Chongyang Festival began in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished after the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was an important period in which traditional festival customs were integrated and finalized, and the main part of the festival has been passed down to the present day. Chrysanthemum ancestor worship folklore along thousands of years, is an ancient folklore with profound significance. Chrysanthemum Festival, together with New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, and the half of the seventh month, are known as the four major traditional festivals of ancestor worship in China.

The Chrysanthemum Festival, in the course of its historical development and evolution, has blended a variety of folklore into one, carrying a rich cultural connotation. In folklore, "nine" is the largest number in the numerals, which has the meaning of longevity and sends people's blessings to the elderly for a long and healthy life. The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar advocates the whole society to establish a culture of respecting, honoring, loving and helping the elderly. Chongyang Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

With the progress of people's livelihood technology, people have a new understanding of time, the "fire calendar" to give way to the general calendar, the September fire ceremony died, but people still have a special feeling for the September due to the decline of yang qi caused by the natural climate changes, so the ancient custom of ascending the heights to avoid taboos is still inherited from generation to generation.

What are the customs of Chrysanthemum Festival

1. Appreciate chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum Festival is the best time for chrysanthemums to open up, and it is also a good time for chrysanthemums to be appreciated, and in a cluster of chrysanthemums, to perceive the beauty of life. Probably the ancients just like such a quiet, modern life is very restless, so people have to follow the Jin Dynasty world Tao Yuanming, hidden with the chrysanthemum as a companion, and chrysanthemum viewing custom is also passed down from this moment.

2 ascend

The Chongyang Festival is not only a good time for chrysanthemums to open, but also a high and refreshing autumn sky at this time, which is most suitable for ascending the heights to look into the distance. Since ancient times, the folk have the tradition of climbing high on the Chongyang Festival, so the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "festival of climbing high". There are many poems written by literati in Tang Dynasty, and Wang Wei's "Remembering Shandong Brothers on September 9" is one of the masterpieces.

3. Cornus officinalis

Cornus officinalis is strong in flavor and has the effect of repelling insects, and the ancients believed that sticking cornus officinalis in the Chongyang Festival could get rid of diseases and protect the body. Many people will climb up to the heights on the day of the festival, pick the cornelian cherry, insert the cornelian cherry in front of the door, or after a simple process, made into a scented capsule, worn on the body.

4. Drink chrysanthemum wine

Chrysanthemum Festival in China has a long history and cultural deposits, from ancient times China has the custom of chrysanthemum appreciation, so the Chrysanthemum Festival is also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival. Chrysanthemums have a high food value, and many people also brew chrysanthemums into wine to make sweet and delicious chrysanthemum wine, which is a unique flavor to entertain guests with homemade chrysanthemum wine on the Chrysanthemum Festival.

5. Eat Chrysanthemum Cake

Chrysanthemum Cake is also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, five-color cake, the shape of the shape is not fixed, according to the heart of the arbitrary change, broadly speaking, eat around the fluffy cakes can be called Chrysanthemum Cake.