Theme activity names are as follows:

1, sunshine autumn

The Chongyang Festival is the best time to enjoy the autumn, some mountainous villages in southern China have retained the characteristics of the "sunshine autumn". Go to the countryside to enjoy folklore, see the sunshine autumn, has become a fashion of rural tourism. The "sunshine autumn" is a typical agricultural phenomenon, with strong regional characteristics.

In Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui, Jiangxi and other villagers living in mountainous areas, due to the complex terrain, the village has very little flat land, had to use the front and back of the house and the roof of their own window racks sun, hanging sunshine crops, and over time has evolved into a traditional agricultural phenomenon.

This villagers drying crops of the special way of life and the scene, and gradually became a painter, photographers chasing the creation of the material, and shaped the poetic "sunshine autumn" name.

2, release the paper kite

Release the paper kite is one of the main customs in the South over the Chongyang Festival. Folk over the Chongyang Festival is to fly paper kites (kites) as the main feature. The Guangxu "Huizhou Prefecture Zhi" has also recorded. In the folk tradition, the Chongyang Festival is also characterized by flying paper kites in addition to ascending the heights.

As to why people want to fly paper kites (kites) in the Chung Yeung, in addition to the Chung Yeung sky high and cloudy, light wind and sunshine, paper kites can easily ride the wind on the climatic reasons, there are also some between the witch and yarrow say, in the unthinking is quite interesting.

The legend says that when you put the paper kite in the Chung Yeung Festival, you have to "let go of the bad luck", and the higher the kite flies, the farther away the bad luck flies, and even more, you have to break the line, so that the kite disappeared outside the cloudy sky.

Another explanation is that Chrysanthemum release paper kite is "put auspicious", "put the blessing", the paper kite fly the better, the more intense the blessing, the paper kite not only can not break the line, but also to do everything possible to protect it, because if the line breaks, the If the silk thread is broken, the "good luck" and "good fortune" will also float to the faraway place.

3, climbing

The Chongyang Festival climbing custom has a long history. Ancient folk in the Chrysanthemum Festival custom, so the Chrysanthemum Festival is also known as the "Festival". Chrysanthemum climbing custom from this time the climate characteristics and the ancient worship of the mountains.

The climb to "quit the green" is also derived from the nature of the festival, the Chongyang Festival mountain climbing "quit the green" and the ancients in the spring of March spring tour "trekking" corresponds to. According to the literature, the custom of "climbing the mountain to pray for blessings" was popular in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. The location of the climb, there is no uniform provisions, the climb to the place is roughly divided into the climb high mountains, climb high buildings, or climb high platform.

High custom of its origin is roughly four: one is derived from the ancient worship of mountains; the second is derived from the "clear gas up, turbid gas sinking" climate; the third is derived from the ascent of the "resignation of the Qing"; the fourth is derived from the attachment to an absurd legend "Huanjing mountain climbing to avoid disaster". In ancient times, the ancient worship of the mountains, the formation of "mountaineering and praying for blessings" custom.

Western Han Dai Sheng "Rituals - Sacrifice Law": "mountains, forests, valleys and hills, can be out of the clouds, for the wind and rain, see monsters, are said to be God." Documentary records of the ancients on the mountain both reverence and full of worship, "mountain climbing and praying for blessings" custom as early as the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period has been popular.

4, resignation green

Ancient people long will Chongyang and on the Si (or Qingming) as the corresponding Spring and Autumn Festival. If the last six is people spend a long winter out of the room after the festival, then the Chung Yeung is about in the autumn cold to the new, people are about to live in seclusion when the ceremonial significance of the autumn tour, so the folk have the Qingming Festival "trekking", the Chung Yeung Festival "resignation of the green" custom.

5, enjoy the feast and pray for life

The Chongyang Festival of longevity custom, the earliest surviving written records in the Han Dynasty literature. The Han Dynasty "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" recorded: "September 9, Perpetuating cornelian cherry, eat pong bait, drink chrysanthemum wine, cloud longevity." The Jing Chu chronicle: "September 9, the four people and the wild drinking feast."

Sui Du Gongzhan note: "September 9 banquet, unknown in what generation, but since the station to Song has not changed." The addition of praying for longevity and drinking banquets on top of sacrificing to heaven and ancestors formed the basis of the Chrysanthemum Festival. The large-scale drinking and banqueting activities during the Chung Yeung Festival were actually developed from the pre-Qin ritual banquets to celebrate the harvest. The custom of honoring the elderly, drinking and praying for longevity is still popular in some places.