The Double Ninth Festival is almost the last most important traditional festival at the end of the year. It is also called the four traditional ancestral festivals in China, together with New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival and Zhongyuan Festival. From this, we can see the important position of the Double Ninth Festival in the minds of the ancients.

China belonged to an agricultural society in ancient times, and its agricultural civilization was a form of civilization that attached great importance to the experience of its ancestors, because it had to rely on the lessons summarized by predecessors and the wisdom left by ancestors to cultivate and plant, thus forming a kind of? Cultural psychology of ancestor worship. The ancient people in China showed infinite respect for their ancestors and attached great importance to sacrifice, all of which came from this root of civilization.

Since ancestor worship is so important, the Double Ninth Festival can be listed as one of the "four ancestor worship festivals", which shows the high status and heavy weight of this festival.

Therefore, the first festival theme of the Double Ninth Festival is "Festival of Sacrificing Ancestors", which is a festival in which wanderers return from the dust and the whole nation pays homage to their ancestors.

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On the ninth day of September, the homonym of "99" is "a long time" and has a long-lasting meaning, so the people carry out activities to respect and love the elderly on the Double Ninth Festival. Respecting the elderly on the Double Ninth Festival can best reflect the unique and simple natural morality of the ancients.

In ancient times, when crops were harvested in September, people offered sacrifices to heaven and ancestors, expressing gratitude and reverence to heaven and earth and ancestors. Nowadays, the traditional ritual system of ancestor worship continues in some places, and the custom of "autumn sacrifice" is strictly observed. The tradition of "respecting the elderly" has not only been preserved, but also carried forward by contemporary people.

Reference to the above content? People's Network-What is the Double Ninth Festival?