What are the customs and activities on the Double Ninth Festival?
Although the Double Ninth Festival is not a legal holiday, this Festivals are not new to us.After all, on the Double Ninth Festival on the ninth day of September every year, we have to go on an autumn tour, worship ghosts and gods, wear dogwood, eat Double Ninth cake, drink chrysanthemum wine and other custom activities.
Every year on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Double Ninth Festival., The purpose of the festival is to worship the gods and pray for blessings.Therefore, whenever the Double Ninth Festival comes, we have to climb high and look into the distance.In addition, there are customary activities such as offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, wearing cornel, eating Double Ninth cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine and so on.
What are the festival folk customs of the Double Ninth Festival on September 9th
1.Climbing to a high autumn tour:"Knowing brothers from afar to climb a high place." This poem expresses one of the biggest custom activities of the Double Ninth Festival.One, that is, climbing a high autumn tour.Since ancient times, whenever the Double Ninth Festival is approaching, the whole family has to go to the heights and look into the distance together, in order to pray for the prosperity of the family and the safety and health of the family.The custom of climbing a mountain on the Double Ninth Festival first originated from offering sacrifices to the gods on the mountain.
2.Sacrifice to ghosts and gods:offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods is the original purpose of the Double Ninth Festival.In ancient times, the Double Ninth Festival appeared to worship the gods.People would climb mountains or high platforms to worship ghosts and gods to pray for a bumper harvest in autumn.Today, we are still popular in offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, but instead of praying for a good harvest, we increase the prayers for the health of the family.
3.Wear dogwood:"There is one less person to put dogwood everywhere." This half-line poem also expresses a major custom of the Double Ninth Festival.Whenever the Double Ninth Festival comes, people wear dogwood, a plant fruit, to drive away evil spirits and pray for safety and health.In addition, dogwood also has the effect of expelling wind and pathogens, so people wear it as a medicine to strengthen their body.
4.Eating Double Ninth Cake and Drinking Chrysanthemum Wine:Whenever the festival comes, our diet will change, and the diet change of Double Ninth Festival is reflected in the two types of Double Ninth Cake and Chrysanthemum Wine on specialty food.Among them, Chongyang cake is also called five-color cake flower cake, etc.There is no specific method.Eating cake in folk customs has the meaning of climbing high; and chrysanthemum wine is a symbol of dispelling disasters and praying for good fortune.
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