1, to avoid the evil gas
The Chung Yeung Festival to climb high to avoid the evil gas, the ancients believe that the time of the Chung Yeung Festival, the weather is down and the earth's gas is rising, heaven and earth two gas intersection, improper gas diffusion. In order to avoid contact with improper gas, must climb high mountains to avoid the evil of the ninth. In addition, the ninth day of the ninth month is in the mid-autumn season, high and refreshing autumn, very suitable for climbing high and looking far away.
2, prayer and thanksgiving
Anciently, there is worship of the mountain gods, that the mountain gods can make people free from disasters, so people in the "Yangji will change" in the day of the Chongyang, to climb the mountain to worship God for good luck. The Rituals - Sacrifice Law" recorded: "mountains, forests, valleys and hills, can be out of the clouds, for the wind and rain, see monsters, are said to be God."
3, auspicious intentions
However, it is also said that the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar has a "long time" of auspicious intentions. In the late Han Dynasty, Cao Pi said in the book "September and Zhong Yao": "The year to the month, suddenly back to the ninth day of the ninth month. Nine is the number of Yang, and the sun and the moon should be the same, so the common people honored its name and thought that it was suitable for a long time, so it was used to enjoy the banquet and high meeting (i.e., ascending to a high place)." Therefore, Chongyang ascending, drinking chrysanthemum wine, women in the arm tied cornelian cherry bladder gradually become folk customs.
4, climbing high collection
Chiyang season, the fall harvest has been completed, farming is relatively idle. At this time in the mountains and fields of wild fruits, medicinal herbs and so on is the season of maturity, farmers have to go up to the mountains to collect wild fruits, medicinal herbs and plant raw materials for the side industry. The custom of climbing up the mountain may have evolved from this.
The symbolism of the Chongyang Festival:
In fact, the symbolism of the Chongyang Festival is very simple, and we are familiar with the poem, "I know that the brotherhood ascends to the heights of the dogwoods less than one." It can be seen, this festival to climb high is to miss the distant relatives, send their feelings of longing.
Then, people take wine and food, while climbing high, while enjoying the beautiful scenery, all the way down, the mood is comfortable, the place of climbing high, looking into the distance, expressing their thoughts about friends and relatives who have not seen for a long time!