Chongyang Festival is also known as Chongjiu Festival, Daughters' Festival, Denggao Festival, Ancestor Worship Festival, Cornucopia Festival, JiuJiu Chongyang, Sunshine Autumn Festival, and Old People's Festival. Chongyang Festival refers to the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, is a traditional Chinese folk festival. In ancient times, folk celebrations of the Chongyang Festival would generally include activities such as traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing up to a high altitude, viewing chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods all over the place, eating chrysanthemum cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine, etc. The festival is also known as the "Chrysanthemum Festival".
1, Chongjiu Festival
Because the old "I Ching" in the "six" as the number of yin, the "nine" as the number of yang, September 9, the sun and the moon and the sun, the two nine overlap, so it is called Chongyang, also known as Chongjiu Festival.
2, Daughter's Day
Chung Yeung Festival, also known as the "Daughter's Day", if a woman is newly married, the mother's family must be presented with Chung Yeung flags and seasonal boxes, known as the delivery of the "Chung Yeung Festival box". According to the Jin Dynasty "So Shen Ji" records, Ding's daughter was ill-treated by her evil mother-in-law, never rest day, unbearable torment, hanging beams on September 9 to kill themselves, and after the death of the souls of the wrongdoers, to tell the world, advising people to treat their daughters-in-law kindly, and please let them rest in the Chongyang Festival. So people set up a shrine for Ding's daughters. Later, every Chung Yeung Festival, parents have to take their married daughters back to the reunion, called the Daughter's Day, in essence, is also the meaning of letting women rest.
3, the festival
One of the most important festivities of the Chung Yeung Festival, that is, climbing. Therefore, the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Festival of Ascension". Ascending to the place, there is no standardized rules, generally climbed high mountains, climbed high towers.
4, Cornus Festival
Chongyang Festival has the custom of wearing dogwood, so it is also known as "Cornus Festival". Cornus is an important symbol of the Chongyang Festival. Folk believe that the ninth day of the ninth month is also the day of evil, many disasters, so in the Chongyang Festival people like to wear dogwood to ward off evil spirits. Cornus officinalis is therefore also known as the "evil weng".
5, the Elderly Festival
In the folk concept, nine nine suns, because and "long time" homophonic, contains a long life, health and longevity of the symbol, so the Chongyang Festival and the "Elderly Festival," said the 1980s. 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, our government designated this day as "Senior Citizens Day" and "Respect for the Elderly Day".
Customs of Chrysanthemum Festival
Wearing Cornus
Chrysanthemum Festival is also called Cornus Festival. Cornus officinalis has a fragrant flavor and is used medicinally to drive away worms and dampness, expel the effects of wind and evil spirits, and has the effect of eliminating stagnant food, treating cold and heat, and the Cornus officinalis picked at the Chrysanthemum Festival can be used as medicine to make wine to nourish the body and get rid of illnesses. People believe that the first nine days of September is the day of the great evil, many disasters, cornelian cherry is known as the "evil weng", Chongyang Festival wear cornelian cherry also has to ward off evil spirits in the meaning of good luck.
Chrysanthemum Appreciation
The Chrysanthemum Festival is the time when chrysanthemums are in full bloom, which is why the ninth month of the lunar calendar is also known as the month of chrysanthemums, and the Chrysanthemum Festival is also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival, which is a traditional gathering for chrysanthemums and chrysanthemum wine since ancient times.
Climbing to the top
The custom of climbing to the top of the mountain on the Chongyang Festival was recorded during the Western Han Dynasty, and "Chang'an Zhi" is the earliest record of this event, and there is also the story of "Dragon Mountain Hat Drop" during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In September of the lunar calendar, the autumn high, out of the high can be strong, happy mood.
What to eat on Chongyang Festival
1, eat Chongyang cake
Chongyang cake "cake" and "high" homophonic, people believe that in the Chongyang Festival to eat Chongyang cake have "step by step", "longevity", "high", "high", "high", "high", "high", "high", "high", "high", "high", "high", "high", "high", "high", "high". "and" longevity of nine nine "meaning, so" Chongyang cake "has become the most popular food at the Chongyang Festival.
2, drink chrysanthemum wine
Chrysanthemum is the most common flowers in the fall, chrysanthemum flowers do not last long, so people will want to make it into chrysanthemum wine, so chrysanthemum wine is also regarded as Chrysanthemum must be drunk to get rid of the disaster and pray for blessings of the "good luck wine". Jing Chu chronicle also said: "September 9, wear dogwood, eat lotus antler, drink chrysanthemum wine, can make people live long."
3, eat hairy crabs
Chung Yeung Festival is a good time for hairy crabs on the market, September is the most fertile female crabs, so the Chung Yeung Festival may wish to eat some female crabs, wait until after the festival, male crabs are also going to market. Song Dynasty poet Mei Yaochen has a poem in praise of the crab: "Bottle has taken the crab flavor, when the day of Brunswick soup in vain to the people."
4, eat mutton noodles
Mutton "sheep" and Chongyang Festival "Yang" homophonic, should be the ceremony of Chongyang. Chongyang Festival to eat noodles to eat white noodles, "white" is the "hundred" word to remove the top of the "one", there are a hundred minus one for the ninety-nine symbolism, in order to respond to the "nine-nine The "white" is the word "hundred" with the top "one" removed, which means one hundred minus one is ninety-nine, in order to correspond to the "nine nine".