For a long time, the Double Ninth Festival has folk customs such as climbing mountains to pray for blessings, inserting dogwood, and offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors. In "I miss my Shandong brothers on vacation in the mountains": "I know where my brother climbed from a distance, and there is one person missing everywhere", which shows that this is a reunion day and expresses the poet's feelings for his loved ones.
The Double Ninth Festival, together with New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and July 30th, is called the four traditional ancestral festivals in China. In addition to the significance of ancestor worship, the Double Ninth Festival also represents thoughts and reunion, and now it also represents gratitude and respect for the elderly. Appreciating autumn and showing gratitude and respecting the elderly are two important themes of the Double Ninth Festival, which advocates the whole society to establish an atmosphere of respecting, filial piety and loving the elderly.
The origin of 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" in the Book of Changes is the number of Yang, and the number of "Nine Nine" is the same, so it is called "Chongyang", and it is called "Double Nine" because both the day and the month meet nine. Returning to the truth of 1999, the ancients thought that 1999 Chongyang was an auspicious day.
The Double Ninth Festival originated from the worship of astronomical 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 season and autumn. The ancients offered sacrifices to the Emperor and ancestors when the crops were harvested in September, which was an activity to thank the Emperor and ancestors for their kindness. This is the original form of the Double Ninth Festival as an autumn harvest sacrifice activity. The Tang Dynasty is an important period when traditional festival customs are mixed and shaped, and its main part has been passed down to this day.
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