The Chongyang Festival is a festival honoring Huanjing, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar.

Huan Jing was a native of Ru Nan County in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his parents died of the plague, and then he went to the mountains alone to learn from his master. Learned a kung fu down the mountain, so that the village got the plague of all the people on the mountain a person to a cup of chrysanthemum wine, and then the plague removed, Huan Jing chased away the plague of the story has been passed down to the present day, but also to be commemorated.

Also known as the 9th day of the 9th moon, it is one of the four traditional Chinese festivals for ancestor worship, along with the New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, and the Chinese New Year Festival, and is also a traditional cultural festival popularized in the countries in the Chinese character culture circle.

Celebrating the Chrysanthemum Festival generally includes activities such as going out to enjoy the fall, climbing up to a high altitude, viewing chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods all over the place, eating chrysanthemum cakes and drinking chrysanthemum wine. The Chongyang Festival was formed as early as the Warring States period, and was officially designated as a folk festival in the Tang Dynasty, and has been carried on through the dynasties since then.

Festival name from:

"Chongyang" of the name from, named after the ancient book "I Ching" in the "yang lines for nine". In the "I Ching", the "six" as the number of yin, the "nine" as the number of yang, but also for the "extreme number", referring to the height of the sky for the "nine heavy The "nine" is the number of yin, and "nine" is the number of yang. "Nine" is the old yang, is the yang pole number, the two yang pole number heavy together, nine nine to one, the beginning of the first yuan, ten thousand elephants renewed.

Therefore, the ancients believed that Chung Yeung was an auspicious day to celebrate. In ancient times, there is the custom of drinking and praying for longevity. The first nine days of September, the sun and the moon are nine, is called "two nine heavy", so it is called "heavy nine", and at the same time is the two Yang number together, so it is called "Chongyang". Zhang Dai of the Ming Dynasty wrote "night boat" cloud: "nine for the number of Yang, its day and the moon and should be, so it is called 'Chongyang'."

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Chongyang Festival