Chinese New Year's Day handbook:

Chinese New Year's Day is also known as the "Festival of the Elderly" or the "Festival of the Elderly". Chrysanthemum Festival activities are extremely rich, there are climbing, chrysanthemum, drink chrysanthemum wine, kite flying, eat cake, dogwood and so on. The Chongyang Festival, which originated in the Warring States period, was originally a day of joy. The ancients categorized all things in heaven and earth into yin and yang, with yin representing darkness and yang representing light and vitality. Odd numbers are yang and even numbers are yin. Nine is an odd number, and therefore belongs to the yang. On the ninth day of the ninth month, the sun and the moon coincide with the ninth day of the ninth month, and the two yangs coincide with each other, so it is called "Chongyang".

Taboos of Chongyang Festival

Nine is the biggest number among the numbers, so it is said that this day is also a very bad day. According to the Chinese tradition of "turning bad luck into good luck", it is reasonable to believe that the festive appearance of the festival is to complete the change from bad luck to good luck on the odd day of the odd month, and a series of festive activities are set up in order to suppress the bad luck and overcome the bad luck. So on this day of warding off evil, it's not appropriate to say Happy Holidays, but rather good health or peace for your family.

The Chrysanthemum Festival, as a traditional Chinese festival, has been passed down to the present day, in addition to the customs of ascending the heights to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums, wearing dogwoods, worshipping the gods and ancestors, and drinking feasts to seek longevity, but also added the connotations of respect for the elderly, which has become an important part of the traditional culture of China's respect for the elderly, and is loved by the masses all over the country, especially by the elderly friends.

Creating a social atmosphere of respect for the elderly. Respect for the elderly is the fine tradition of the Chinese nation, has always been valued by the people, is always the mainstream culture of society, every Chongyang Festival across the country through colorful forms of expression of respect and care for elderly friends.