Originally, China's ancient nine called "Yang number", the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the two nine overlap, are Yang number, and therefore called "Chongyang".
According to legend, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ru Nan County, there is a young man called Huan Jing's countryside, parents, wife and children of a large family. Although the day is not good, half food and half grain can get by. Who knows the unfortunate thing came. Both sides of the Ru River caused a plague, families are sick, corpses all over the place, no one buried. This year, Huan Jing's parents also died of illness.
When Huanjing was a child, he heard his elders say, "There is a plague demon living in the River Ru, and every year it comes out and walks around the earth. Wherever it went, it brought the plague with it. Huanjing was determined to learn from his masters, to fight the plague, and to rid the people of its evils. When he heard that a great immortal named Fei Changfang lived in the southeastern mountains, he packed his bags and set out for the mountains to learn from his master.
Fei Changfang gave Huanjing a Demon Sword. Huanjing woke up early and went to bed late, wearing stars and moonlight, practicing day and night. In the blink of an eye is another year, that day Huanjing is practicing sword, Fei Changfang came to the front and said: "This year, September 9, Ruhe plague demon again to come out. You should hurry back to your hometown to get rid of the plague for the people. I will give you a bag of cornelian cherry leaves and a bottle of chrysanthemum wine, so that your hometown fathers and mothers can ascend the heights to avoid the disaster." After the Immortal Weng said that, he pointed with his hand, and an immortal crane flew in with its wings spreading and landed in front of Huanjing. Huanjing straddled the crane and flew toward Ru Nan.
Huanjing returned to his hometown and gathered his folks. He told the people about the words of the Great Immortal. On the ninth day of the ninth month, he led his wife, children, townspeople and elders up a nearby mountain. The dogwood leaves each person divided a piece, said so that carry with you, the plague demon dare not close to you. And the chrysanthemum wine poured out, each person pecked a mouthful, said drink chrysanthemum wine, not infected with the plague disease. He put the townspeople arrangements, with his Demon Green Dragon Sword back to the home, sitting alone in the house, waiting for the plague of demons to come to the battle of demon-subduing.
Not long ago, only to hear the roar of the River Ru, strange winds swirling up. The plague demon came out of the water and walked up the bank, through the village, walked thousands of string ten thousand households did not see a person, suddenly looked up to see people are in the high mountain gathering. It scurried to the bottom of the mountain, only to feel the wine gas pungent, cornelian flush lungs, do not dare to come close to the mountain, and then turned back to the village. Only to see a man is sitting in the house. Then roared and pounced forward. Huan Jing saw the plague demon pounced, hastily dance sword to meet the battle. After a few rounds of fighting, the plague demon could not defeat him and ran away. Huanjing "whoosh" throws the Demon Green Dragon Sword, only to see the sword flashing cold light to the plague demon chase, through the heart through the lungs of the plague demon stabbed down to the ground.
After that, the people on both sides of the Ru River were no longer victimized by the plague. Since then, people have been living the Chongyang Festival, with the custom of the 9th day of the 9th moon.