Double ninth festival custom
Climbing high and looking far: Climbing high and looking far is valued by people, especially the elderly, because people think that climbing high means "climbing high and looking far". In addition, people also believe that mountain climbing can make people healthy and live longer. Mountain climbing on the Double Ninth Festival became popular in the Tang Dynasty.
Chrysanthemum appreciation: Chrysanthemum was produced in China, and the earliest record began in the 5th century BC. Chrysanthemum blooms in September of the lunar calendar and has the reputation of "longevity flower". Therefore, the annual Double Ninth Festival is also a good time to enjoy chrysanthemums.
Drink chrysanthemum wine: the brewing of chrysanthemum wine is very unique. In ancient times, people picked fresh chrysanthemums and chrysanthemum leaves on September 9, and brewed wine from grains. Wait until the same time next year to hold a tasting meeting. It is said that chrysanthemum wine has the effects of refreshing, improving eyesight, reducing weight and lowering blood pressure, and treating stomach diseases. Therefore, drinking chrysanthemum wine can make people live longer.
Evodia rutaecarpa: Cornus officinalis is a kind of Chinese herbal medicine, which has a strong flavor of Cornus officinalis, and has the functions of expelling worms, removing dampness, expelling cold, resolving food stagnation and treating cold and heat. The ancients put dogwood on their hats on the Double Ninth Festival, mainly to ward off evil spirits and seek good luck.
Double ninth festival poetry
1, drunken shadow Li Qingzhao
The fog is thick and the clouds are light, and it will always be sad. The brain sells golden beasts. Double Ninth Festival, lying in bed, in the middle of the night, the cold on my body has just been soaked. Dongli drinks until dusk, and faint chrysanthemum fragrance overflows his sleeves. Don't get carried away, the curtain rolls west wind, people are thinner than yellow flowers!
2. On September 9th, Yu Changan returned to Yangzhou, visited Weishan Pavilion and paid a visit to Jiang Yun, the general manager.
My heart went south, but my body came back from north to south in autumn. When is the chrysanthemum in my hometown blooming today?
The source of the double ninth festival
One of the prototypes of the Double Ninth Festival is the ancient fire sacrifice ceremony.
As a symbol of ancient seasonal stars, the "September Fire" retired, and it was called "September Fire" in summer. The retirement of Mars not only made the ancients who had always regarded Mars as a symbol of seasonal production and seasonal life lose their time coordinates, but also made the ancients who worshipped fire feel inexplicable fear. The dormancy of Vulcan means a long winter.
Therefore, in the "internal fire" season, just as there is a welcoming ceremony when the fire appears, people should also hold corresponding farewell ceremonies. Although the situation of ancient sacrificial ceremonies is obscure, we can still find some traces of ancient customs from the utensils of the Double Ninth Festival in later generations. For example, in some places in the south of the Yangtze River, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to stoves on Chongyang, which is the fire god at home, thus showing the clues of offering sacrifices to "fire" in ancient September.
The ancients regarded Chongyang, Shangsi or cold food, September 9 and March 3 as the corresponding spring and autumn festivals.
Chongyang has become a landmark building in people's life after the return of Xia Dong. If thinking and cold food are the Spring Festival when people go out to swim after a long winter, then Chongyang is a ceremonial autumn outing when autumn cold comes and people are about to live in seclusion, so there is thinking "outing" and Chongyang's "farewell". The custom of Double Ninth Festival revolves around people's feelings in this season.