What's a good square dance for the Double Ninth Festival: Sunny Days in September and Wine on September 9

The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival, also known as Ascending Festival, and there are folk sayings such as Double Ninth Festival, cornus Festival and Chrysanthemum Festival.

the custom of the double ninth festival

1. Climbing the mountain

The double ninth festival first has the custom of climbing the mountain. Autumn in September, the sky is crisp, this season, climbing high and looking far can achieve the purpose of refreshing, fitness and illness.

2. Sacrificing ancestors

The Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Eve, the Mid-Autumn Festival and Qingming Festival are also called the four ancestral festivals in China. It is a traditional custom since ancient times to worship ancestors and pray for blessings. People will remember their ancestors during the Double Ninth Festival and pray for the family's safety and success.

3. Wearing cornus

In ancient China, people thought that September 9th was also a day of disaster, so they wore cornus on the Double Ninth Festival to ward off evil spirits and seek good luck. Cornus is known as the "evil-ward Weng".

4. Enjoy chrysanthemums and drink chrysanthemum wine

The Double Ninth Festival has always had the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums, so it has been called Chrysanthemum Festival since ancient times. Many places will hold chrysanthemum meetings on the Double Ninth Festival. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the Three Kingdoms, it has become fashionable for Chongyang parties to drink chrysanthemum wine and admire chrysanthemums and compose poems.

5. Sunbathing in autumn

The Double Ninth Festival is the best time to enjoy autumn, and some mountain villages in the south of China have retained the characteristics of "sunbathing in autumn". "Sunbathing in autumn" is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon. Villagers in mountainous areas have to use the roofs in front of and behind their houses and their own windowsills to rack and hang crops because of the complex terrain and little flat land in their villages.

6. Eating Double Ninth Cake

Eating Double Ninth Cake is an essential part in the custom of Double Ninth Festival, because "Cake" and "Gao" are homophonic, which means that the living standard is rising step by step and symbolizes the happiness and good luck of the whole family.