The main activities of the Double Ninth Festival include traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and overlooking, enjoying chrysanthemums, picking Chinese herbal medicines, giving a feast for the elderly, eating double ninth cake, keeping in good health with pharmaceutical wine and drinking chrysanthemum wine.
it's autumn, with cold air heading south, less rain and sunny weather. Autumn in September, autumn is crisp, the temperature is neither cold nor hot, just suitable for traveling. The ancients had the custom of climbing mountains on the Double Ninth Festival for a long time. For example, in on the mountain holiday thinking of my brothers in shandong in the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei wrote that he was a stranger in a foreign land, and he missed his relatives twice every festival. Think of the brothers body boarded up high, will also because of less than I have a regret.
Double Ninth Festival cake, also called flower cake, chrysanthemum cake and hair cake, is a traditional food for Double Ninth Festival. Five-colored Caiqi Yang is inserted on the cake, and two sheep are printed on the cake, which means "Chongyang". Some places put a piece of cake on their children's foreheads at dawn on September 9, saying something in their mouths, wishing their children all the best.
Introduction to Double Ninth Festival
Double Ninth Festival is a traditional folk festival in China, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. The number of "Nine" is a positive number in the Book of Changes, and the two positive numbers of "Nine Nine" are heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; It is also called "double ninth" because the day and the month all meet nine. In ancient times, there were customs such as climbing to pray for blessings, worshipping gods and ancestors, and drinking and praying for longevity on the Double Ninth Festival.
The Double Ninth Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena, which began in ancient times, spread in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished after the Tang Dynasty. According to the existing historical data and textual research, in ancient times, there were activities of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors in the season and autumn. The ancients offered sacrifices to the Heavenly Emperor and ancestors when the crops were harvested in September, which was an activity of thanking the Heavenly Emperor and ancestors for their kindness. This is the original form of the Double Ninth Festival as an autumn harvest sacrifice activity.
above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Double Ninth Festival