The time of the Chongyang Festival is September 9 next year, and the customs of the festival include ascending heights, worshipping ancestors, and enjoying chrysanthemums.

1, climbing

The custom of climbing on the Chongyang Festival has a long history, and the ancient folk custom of climbing on the Chongyang Festival, so the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Festival of the heights". Climbing "quit green" is also derived from the nature of the festival, Chongyang Festival mountain climbing "quit green" and the ancients in March spring tour "trekking" corresponds to. 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, climb high platforms.

2, ancestor worship

The Chongyang Festival is one of the four traditional Chinese ancestor festivals, ancient folk tradition of ancestor worship and prayers. The traditional custom of ancestor worship is still prevalent in the Lingnan area, where people hold ancestor worship activities on the Chongyang Festival every year.

Whether it is ancestor worship activities or climbing high and looking around, its most fundamental role is to enhance people's sense of cultural identity and strengthen the cohesion of the family and society. In the traditional custom, Qingming for the "spring festival", Chongyang for the "autumn festival", Chongyang climbed to the ancestors of the traditional customs continue to this day.

3, chrysanthemum

The Chrysanthemum Festival is also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival because it is a custom to enjoy chrysanthemums from ancient times, and the custom of enjoying chrysanthemums originates from the chrysanthemum culture. Chrysanthemum is a natural flower, because of its colorful and frosty blossoms and the formation of chrysanthemum appreciation chrysanthemum culture. Since the Three Kingdoms, Wei Dynasty and Jin Dynasty, it has become fashionable to gather and drink wine at the Chrysanthemum Festival and to enjoy chrysanthemum and write poems. In ancient Chinese custom, chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity.

Origin of the Festival:

The Chrysanthemum Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival held on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. "Nine" number in the "I Ching" for the number of yang, "nine" two yang number is heavy, so it is called "Chongyang", because the sun and the moon are nine, so it is also known as "heavy nine "

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Nine to the truth, the beginning of a yuan, the ancients believed that the nine nine suns is an auspicious day, the ancient folk in the Chongyang Festival have climbed up to pray for blessings, worship God and ancestors and drinking and praying for life and other customs.

The Chongyang Festival originated from the worship of heaven, began in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty later. According to the existing historical materials and evidence, in the ancient times, there was a harvest in the seasonal fall to sacrifice to heaven, ancestor worship activities.

Ancient people in September when the crop harvest sacrifices to the emperor of heaven, ancestor worship, in order to thank the emperor of heaven, ancestor beneficence of the activities, which is the Chung Yeung Festival as an autumn harvest ritual activities and the existence of the original form. The Tang Dynasty was an important period in which traditional festival customs were kneaded and finalized, and the main part of them has been passed down to the present day.