The origin of the Double Ninth Festival
Being a stranger in a foreign land, we miss our loved ones even more during the festive season.
I know from afar that my brothers have climbed to a high place, and there is one less person planting dogwood trees everywhere.
A Tang poem by Wang Wei takes you back to your elementary school days. Do you feel like you are reliving the era? The Double Ninth Festival refers to the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year and is a traditional Chinese folk festival.
In ancient times, during the Double Ninth Festival, people had customs such as climbing high to pray for blessings, going on autumn outings to appreciate chrysanthemums, wearing dogwood trees, worshiping gods and ancestors, and having banquets to pray for longevity. It has been passed down to this day, and connotations such as respecting the elderly have been added. On the Double Ninth Festival, a banquet is held to express gratitude and respect for the elderly. Climbing high to appreciate autumn and being grateful and respectful to the elderly are two important themes of today's Double Ninth Festival activities.
As early as the pre-Qin period, "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" recorded: In September, the housekeeper is ordered to prepare for the harvest, and five important things are listed. ?I will sacrifice myself today in preparation for suing the emperor? It can be seen that there was a tradition at that time to worship heaven and ancestors after the harvest of crops every September.
In the Han Dynasty document "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes", it is recorded that on September 9th, wearing dogwood, eating bait, and drinking chrysanthemum wine is said to make people live longer. It can be seen that since the Han Dynasty, there has been a custom of praying for longevity on the Double Ninth Festival. From this we can conclude that the Double Ninth Festival has truly taken shape in the Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, it was finally officially designated as a folk festival, and then successive dynasties continued to give it new content and connotations, slowly forming the current Double Ninth Festival.
The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival that falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. Jiujiu returns to his true nature and the One Yuan begins. The ancients believed that the Double Ninth Festival is an auspicious day. In ancient times, during the Double Ninth Festival, people had customs such as climbing high to pray for blessings, going on autumn outings to appreciate chrysanthemums, planting dogwood trees, worshiping gods and ancestors, and drinking banquets to pray for longevity. It has been passed down to this day, and connotations such as respecting the elderly have been added. On the Double Ninth Festival, a banquet is held to express gratitude and respect for the elderly. Climbing high to appreciate autumn and being grateful and respectful to the elderly are two important themes of today's Double Ninth Festival activities. The Double Ninth Festival has become a time landmark for the handover of summer and winter in people's lives. If Shangsi and Hanshi are Spring Festivals when people go out for a swim after spending the long winter, then Double Ninth Festival is about a ritual autumn outing with ceremonial significance when the autumn cold arrives and people are about to live in seclusion. Therefore, folk customs include Shangsi? Outing? and Double Ninth Festival? green?. The Double Ninth Festival customs revolve around people's feelings about this season. ?
According to the research of historians, the Double Ninth Festival began in ancient times, was formed in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, became popular in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished after the Tang Dynasty. In modern times, it has become a well-known festival. In December 2005, Shangcai County was officially named the "Chongyang Cultural Hometown of China", becoming the only cultural home town named after a traditional festival in China at this stage. In March 2006, Shangcai County’s Double Ninth Festival custom was included in the first batch of intangible cultural heritage protection lists by the Henan Provincial People’s Government. In June 2011, it was named as the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council. ?
As for the origin of the Double Ninth Festival, there is also a saying that after Mrs. Qi was made into a human pig by Empress Lu and killed, Mrs. Qi and the maids around her were also implicated and kicked out. to the palace. After being kicked out of the palace, the maid continued the Double Ninth Festival in the palace. Later generations followed suit one after another, and it was passed down to hundreds of people, and it later became a traditional festival in our country.