Chung Yeung Festival

Lunar September 9, for the traditional Double Ninth Festival, also known as "Festival for the Elderly." Because of the ancient "Book of Changes" in the "6" as the number of Yin, the "nine" as yang number, September 9, sun and moon, and Yang, 29-phase heavy and therefore I called the Chung Yeung Festival, also known as Chongjiu. Chung Yeung Festival as early as the Warring States period had been formed, to the Tang Dynasty, Chung Yeung Festival has been officially designated as folk festivals, Chinese dynasties followed since then. "Double Ninth Festival" name was found recorded in the Three Kingdoms era. According to Cao Pi's "Zhong Yao on the 9th and the book" contains: "-year-old to the past few months, suddenly re-September 9. 9 for the yang number, while the sun and the moon and should be, vulgar Kerry by name, that desirability of long-term, so as to enjoy the Yan Gao. "
Chung Yeung Festival is first climb of the customs, autumn in September, days of high Qishuang that winter climb afar can be achieved relaxed and happy, fitness illnesses and purpose. And climb associated with eating Double Ninth cakes custom. High and cake euphony, as a festival of food, the first celebration of autumn harvest, hi Changxin the intention of grain, followed by a climb people have to eat cake, take BBK auspicious meaning.

Chongyang day, there has always been reward chrysanthemums customs, so the ancient Chrysanthemum Festival is also called. On Lunar New Year in September known as Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum Festival organized by the General Assembly, Allure of the crowds to attend the meeting Shangju. From the three countries since the Wei and Jin Chung Yeung Festival gathering drinking, Shangju and write poetry has become fashionable. In the ancient customs of the Han, chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity. Plug 99 is also popular in the ancient custom of Zhuyu, so also known as Zhu-Yu Festival. Zhuyu medicine, it can be self-cultivation illnesses and liquor.

The ancients considered to be an auspicious day worth celebrating, and from very early before the holidays. Chung Yeung Festival is a hybridity formed by a variety of folk as one of the Han traditional festivals. Celebrate the Chung Yeung Festival activities generally include trips enjoy the scenery and take a distance, viewing chrysanthemum, Biancha Zhuyu, eating Double Ninth cakes, drink chrysanthemum wine and other activities. 99 Chong-Yang, as with the "long time" are homonyms, nine in the figure is the maximum number, there are long-term implications of longevity Moreover, the golden autumn is also the year of harvest season, Chung Yeung Festival, implies a far-reaching, people always have a special section of this feelings, poetry has a lot of He Chong-Yang, Yong-chrysanthemum poetry masterpiece.

In the folk conception, 99 Chung Yeung Festival, as with the "long time" are homonyms, with a long life, health and longevity of the implication. In 1989, China's Lunar New Year each year as a festival for the elderly September 9, promote the whole society to establish Respect, care and love for the elderly, help the old culture, the addition of a layer of new meaning Chung Yeung Festival.
Country attaches great importance to the intangible cultural heritage protection, May 20, 2006, the folk by the State Council approved the inclusion of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage site.

A long time ago, there lived in Li Zhuang Huren mountain, the whole family are very hard working, life can not bad.
One day, this master back from the ground, half-way run into a fortune-teller President, it is getting dark, which her husband still looking at the break. As the host family is very narrow, and only a thatched ovary, so I called grass years in Zaofang shop, so that his wife and children were sleeping in the grass covered with his own fortune-teller, Mr. accompanying sleep on the kang, make do with too.

The next day at dawn, fortune-teller to go, Mr., Mr. Zhuang Huren wake up his wife to eat and drink has done a good meal, and gave Mr. installed a bag of white steamed bun. Mr. karmic out the door, looked Zhuang Huren somewhere to live and warned him he said: "By September 9, the whole family walking height.

"Zhuang Huren think I normally do not Zuosa strange things, but also do not want promotion or the height to go Shane? But another thought, people always say fortune-teller will be proficient in astronomical geomancy, perhaps where I live would be out of Han Ma boil . By September 9, on the walk to the high bar, so that the whole family to see the whole picture when.

By September 9, Zhuang Huren on the back of Huagaoxiangjiu with his wife and children, boarded the peak of Lishan Mountain to play. When they go into the mountains, the hillside suddenly emits spring hurling his home to his family's hut child suddenly causing it to collapse. Little effort, the whole valley had been a bubble of. This fortune-teller, Mr. Jia Zhuang Huren to understand why his family in September 9 ascend.

Spread this matter, the people on the traditional Chinese lunar calendar every September 9, young and old to climb, Xiangyan into the vulgar, has been spread to this.