The legend of Chongyang Festival is related to Laozi.
The Chongyang Festival originated from Laozi. In the I Ching, a classic Taoist text, odd numbers are regarded as yang numbers and even numbers as yin numbers, and among the yang numbers, "nine" is regarded as the "extreme yang", and the ninth day of the ninth month is the day when two "extreme yangs" meet, so it is called "Chongyang". The ninth day of the ninth month is the day when the two "extreme yangs" meet, so it is called "Chongyang". Yang also means steel, Chung Yeung is "two steel meet" and the opposite, so it is regarded as "doom day", climb high and tie cornelian cherry, the purpose is to "solve doom", Chung Yeung custom from this.
The name "Chongyang Festival" was recorded in the Three Kingdoms era. According to Cao Pi's "Nine Days and the Book of Zhongtou", "The years go by and the months come and go, and suddenly it is the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth lunar month. Nine is the number of Yang, and the sun and the moon should be the same, the common people praise its name, think it is suitable for a long time, so to enjoy the feast of the high meeting." The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to the ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture and the sky, calendar and other human and natural cultural content.
It contains the profound cultural connotations of the civilization of respect and virtue, rites and music. Chongyang Festival has a long history. Ancient north and south of different customs, pre-Qin period, the customs of different places did not integrate the circulation, Chongyang Festival customs and activities rarely seen in written records. Existing written records of the Chrysanthemum Festival, the earliest in the "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" of the "Jiuqiu Ji", the ancient people in the September harvest offerings to the emperor, ancestor worship activities.
The name of Chrysanthemum Festival was first recorded in the Three Kingdoms era; to the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the atmosphere of the festival grew stronger, the appearance of chrysanthemum viewing, drinking customary written records, doubly so by the literati and writers chanting; to the Tang Dynasty was included in the national recognition of the festival. In the course of its history, the festival has blended a variety of folklore into one, and with the development of the times, the festival's cultural connotations continue to be extended and enriched.
Chongyang Festival Hengjing in the morning of the ninth day of the ninth month, according to the instructions of the fairy led the townspeople to a nearby mountain, so that everyone will be cornelian cherry leaves inserted in the body, each person drank a cup of chrysanthemum wine, they are holding wine sword, ready to cure the devil. Quickly look, the plague god kills to the village this way, but the village is not a person, the plague god is wondering, suddenly a cornelian cherry incense and chrysanthemum wine gas come to the nose.
Smoked him dizzy. He looked up and saw that the villagers were hiding on the mountain, and he was so angry that the God of Pestilence screamed and rushed up the mountain. At that moment, Hengjing chased him down the mountain with a demon-subduing sword in his hand, and in a few rounds he stabbed the god of pestilence to death under the sword. The black gas retreated, the people cheered and celebrated the victory on the top of the mountain. Since then, the activity of ascending the mountain on the ninth day of the ninth month has been passed down year after year.