The main significance of Chung Yeung Festival
The Chung Yeung Festival has been customary since ancient times to climb the mountain and enjoy the chrysanthemums and chant autumn. In recent years, with the early arrival of China's geriatric society, the elderly over the age of 60 has accounted for more than 10% of China's total population. Under the impact of money supremacy and materialistic desire, honoring the elderly, filial piety and respecting the elderly has become a prominent social issue. It is in this social context, in 1989, China designated the Chung Yeung Festival as the "Festival of the Elderly", advocating the whole society to establish a culture of respect for the elderly, filial piety, love for the elderly.
As a traditional festival of the Chongyang Festival, it condensed the Chinese nation thousands of generations of "old as we care for the old and the old, the young as we care for the young and the young," the strong sentiment.
Customs of the Chrysanthemum Festival
1.Pear Juju
The Chrysanthemum Festival is also known as the Festival of the Cornucopia.
People believe that the ninth day of the ninth month is the day of great evil, many disasters, cornelian cherry is known as the "evil weng", Chanyang Festival wearing cornelian cherry also has the meaning of warding off evil spirits and seeking good luck in it.
2. Appreciate Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemum Festival, it is the time when chrysanthemums bloom, so the ninth month of the lunar calendar is also known as the month of chrysanthemums, Chrysanthemum Festival is also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival, since ancient times, people have in the Chrysanthemum Festival when the gathering of chrysanthemums, chrysanthemum wine drinking tradition.
3. Ascension
The custom of ascending the heights of the Chongyang Festival was recorded during the Western Han Dynasty, and "Chang'an Zhi" is the earliest record of this event, and there is also the story of "Dragon Mountain Hat Fall" during the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
September of the lunar calendar, the autumn high, go out to climb can be strong, happy mood.