The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is also the four traditional festivals for ancestor worship in China. The Double Ninth Festival was formed as early as the Warring States Period, and was officially designated as a folk festival in the Tang Dynasty. Since then, it has been passed down from generation to generation. Chongyang and the "spring outing" on the third day of March are all family members. On Chongyang, all relatives should climb the mountain together to "avoid disaster".
In p>26, the Double Ninth Festival was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council.
The origin of the Double Ninth Festival 1:
One of the prototypes of the Double Ninth Festival is the ancient ceremony of offering sacrifices to the fire.
As the symbol of the ancient seasonal stars, the "Fire" star retired in September, and Xia Xiaozheng called it "Fire in September". The retirement of the "Fire" star not only made the ancients who always used Mars as the symbol of seasonal production and seasonal life lose the time coordinates, but also made the ancients who worshipped the fire feel inexplicable fear. The dormancy of Vulcan means the arrival of a long winter. Therefore, in. Although the situation of ancient sacrificial rites is obscure, we can still find some traces of ancient customs from the instruments of the Double Ninth Festival in later generations. For example, in some parts of the south of the Yangtze River, there is a custom of worshipping the stove on Chongyang, which is the fire god at home, thus showing the clues of the ancient September sacrifice to the "fire". The ancients regarded Chongyang and Shangsi or cold food, September 9 and March 3 as the corresponding Spring and Autumn Festival. Han Liu Xin's Miscellaneous Notes on Xijing said: "Go to the third place in March, and double ninth in September, and make girls play games, and then climb high." The correspondence between Shangsi, cold food and Chongyang is based on the appearance of "fire".
With the progress of people's livelihood technology, people have a new understanding of time, and the "fire calendar" has given way to the general calendar. The ceremony of offering sacrifices to fire in September declined, but people still have special feelings about the natural climate changes caused by the decline of yang in September, so the ancient custom of climbing mountains and avoiding taboos still spread to the city, although the world has a new explanation.
Chongyang has become the landmark of the handover of Xia Dong in people's lives. If Shangsi and Cold Food are the Spring Festival when people go out for a swim after a long winter, then Chongyang is a ceremonial autumn outing when the autumn cold is coming and people are about to live in seclusion, so there are Shangsi's "outing" and Chongyang's "resignation". The custom of the Double Ninth Festival revolves around people's feelings in this season.
The origin of Double Ninth Festival 2:
The origin of Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. Ji Qiu Ji in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals says: "In September, the family was ordered to slaughter, and the farming was prepared for harvest, and five important things were cited. The Tibetan emperor's book is collected in the sacred warehouse, and it is only respectful. " "It's a day, a great emperor, and I'll taste the sacrifice and tell it to the son of heaven." It can be seen that at that time, there were activities of offering sacrifices to the emperor and ancestors when the crops were harvested in autumn and September to thank the emperor and ancestors for their kindness.
In the Han Dynasty, Jia Peilan, a court official who recorded the Western Han Dynasty in Miscellanies of Xijing, said: "On September 9th, Pei cornus ate loose bait and drank chrysanthemum wine, and the clouds made people live longer." According to legend, since then, there has been a custom of seeking longevity on the Double Ninth Festival. This is influenced by the ancient wizards (later Taoist) who pursued immortality and collected drugs to take. At the same time, there are also large-scale banquet activities, which developed from the banquet of Qingfeng Harvest in the pre-Qin period. "The Chronicle of Jingchu's Age" says: "On September 9th, the four people joined together for a wild banquet." Duke Du of Sui paid attention to the cloud: "The banquet on September 9, I don't know when it originated, but it hasn't changed since it was stationed in Song Dynasty." Longevity and feasting constitute the foundation of the Double Ninth Festival.