With the development of the Double Ninth Festival, it has been given a new and beautiful meaning while spreading. "Nine" is the largest number in the number; At the same time, nine is a homonym for a long time, so the Double Ninth Festival and the Double Ninth Festival both contain beautiful metaphors of longevity.
In order to combine the essence of traditional culture with the development of modern society harmoniously; The state has designated the ninth day of the ninth lunar month as the festival for the elderly, and the newly revised Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly also clearly stipulates that the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the festival for the elderly. It gives the traditional Double Ninth Festival a new connotation of respecting, loving and helping the elderly. The theme of giving a banquet to respect the elderly and pray for longevity is integrated into the traditional filial piety ethics in China, which endows the traditional Double Ninth Festival with new vitality and positive social significance.
The origin of the name "Chongyang" was named after "Yang is nine" in the ancient book I Ching. In the Book of Changes, "six" is defined as yin number, "nine" is defined as yang number, and "extreme number" means that the height of the sky is "nine times". "Nine" is the Lao Yang, which is the anode number. The two anode numbers are combined, 1999 is unified, one yuan starts, and Vientiane is updated. Therefore, the ancients thought that Chongyang was an auspicious day to celebrate. In ancient times, there was a custom of drinking to pray for longevity. On the ninth day of September, the sun and every month meet on the ninth day, which means "the weight of 29", so it is called "double ninth". At the same time, the two yang numbers are combined, so it is called "double ninth". In the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Dai wrote "Night Flight": "Nine is the yang number, and its day coincides with the month, so it is called' Chongyang'."
The story of Chongyang
On the Double Ninth Festival, Wu Junzhi, a Liang man in the Southern Dynasties, recorded in The Continuation of Harmony that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a man named Huan Jing in runan county, and suddenly a great plague happened. Huan Jing's parents died of illness, so he went to the southeast mountain to learn from his teacher, and the fairy Fei Changfang gave Huan Jing a demon-reducing dragon sword. Huan Jing gets up early and goes to bed late, wears a Dai Yue, studies hard and practices hard. One day, Fei Changfang said, "On September 9, the plague will come again, so you can go back and kill pests." And gave him a bag of dogwood leaves and a bottle of chrysanthemum wine, so that the elders in their hometown could climb high to avoid disaster. On September 9, he led his wife, children and fellow villagers to a nearby mountain. Take the dogwood leaves with you, but the plague demon is afraid to go near them. Then pour out the chrysanthemum wine, and everyone took a sip to avoid catching the plague. He fought the plague demon and finally killed it. Up to now, people on both sides of the Ruhe River are still telling stories about climbing mountains to avoid disasters and waving swords and stabbing demons on September 9. Since then, people celebrate the Double Ninth Festival and have the custom of climbing mountains on the Double Ninth Festival.
Many important books, such as "Beginners" in the Tang Dynasty and "A View of Taiping" in the Song Dynasty, all recounted this story in Wu Jun's "Continuing Qi and Combining Things", arguing that the custom of women wearing dogwood bags on their arms to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters came from this.