Brief introduction to nouns:
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 the number of yang in the Book of Changes, and the number of nine yang is heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; It is also called "Double Ninth Festival", because both the date and the month conform to nine. Returning to the truth of 1999, the ancients thought that 1999 Chongyang was an auspicious day.
In ancient times, there were customs such as climbing to pray for blessings, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and drinking and praying for blessings. Inherited to this day, it has increased the connotation of respecting the elderly. Climbing mountains and enjoying autumn and giving thanks and respecting the elderly are two important themes of today's Double Ninth Festival. 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.
Origin of the festival:
The origin of the name of Chongyang was named after "Yang is nine" in the ancient book Yijing. In the Book of Changes, "six" is defined as yin number, and nine is yang number, which means 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, which means that the two nines are important, so it is called "double ninth", and at the same time, because the two yang numbers are combined, it is called "double ninth". Zhang Dai's Night Boat Cloud in Ming Dynasty: "Nine is the yang number, and its day and month coincide, so it is called' Chongyang'.
Historical evolution:
The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents, and contains profound cultural connotations of respecting morality, etiquette and music civilization. Double Ninth Festival has a long history. In ancient times, there were different customs in the north and the south. In the pre-Qin period, local customs had not been integrated and circulated, and the activities of the Double Ninth Festival were rarely recorded in writing.
The existing written records about the custom of the Double Ninth Festival were first found in Lu Chunqiu Qiu Ji Ji, which recorded the ancient people's activities of offering sacrifices to the Heaven Emperor and ancestors in September. The custom of Chongyang was popular in the Han Dynasty, which was a period of economic and cultural exchanges and integration between the north and the south of China. Cultural exchanges in various places made the custom spread.