How did Guizhou's Double Ninth Festival go?
Sacrificing water
Renhuai people have a unique custom of offering water during the Double Ninth Festival. There is a folk proverb that Chongyang Xiasha Fang is full of jars, and Chongyang Brewing is fragrant all over the river, which means that Chongyang Festival is the best time to fetch water and Xiasha Brewing. Therefore, this day has become the day of offering water to renhuai city.
The ceremony of offering water is based on the folk customs of Maotai, and it inherits the ancient sacrificial culture. Thousands of people gather on the Chishui River to express their gratitude and admiration for nature and ancestors with elegant flowers, and at the same time show the people in the wine country that they are well fed and happy.
glutinous rice Baba
Tujia people in the northeast of Guizhou pay more attention to the Double Ninth Festival, where glutinous rice Baba is played, and grinding bean curd is used to offer sacrifices to domestic tigers. In many places in Chongqing, it is still said that the double ninth festival does not hit Baba, and the tiger will bite its mother. Chongyang doesn't push tofu, but tigers bite their asses.
In addition, some places in Guizhou have the custom of cooking popcorn, soybeans, tea leaves and fried rice in one pot to make bean tea. It is said that there are many kinds of bean tea, such as green bean tea, red bean tea and white bean tea.
matchmaking
More than 2 families with adult girls in Dong Village, Cidong Village, Shuikou Town, Liping County kill chickens and ducks on the Double Ninth Festival of the ninth lunar month, just like the Chinese New Year.
According to the local custom, on this day, talented people and beautiful women in all directions will entrust matchmakers to propose marriage in Dong Village, Cidong. Families with adult girls kill chickens and ducks just to entertain these matchmakers.
What is the significance of the Double Ninth Festival?
Long life, health and longevity
The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival, also known as the Festival for the Elderly. Because the Book of Changes defines six as yin and nine as yang, on September 9, the sun and the moon are combined with yang, and the two are heavy, so it is called Chongyang, also called Double Ninth.
The Double Ninth Festival was formed as early as the Warring States Period. In the Tang Dynasty, Double Ninth Festival was officially designated as a folk festival, and it has been followed from generation to generation since then.
Double Ninth Festival, also known as stepping in autumn and stepping in spring on March 3rd, is a family outing. On this day, all relatives should climb the mountain together to avoid disasters, insert dogwood and enjoy chrysanthemums.
since the Wei, Jin and Chongyang, the atmosphere has become increasingly rich, and it has been one of the most traditional festivals sung by literati in past dynasties. In the folk concept, the double ninth festival, because it is homophonic with a long time, contains the meaning of long life, health and longevity.