When is Chung Yeung Festival prescribed and when is Chung Yeung Festival?

Chung Yeung Festival is an annual festival. In China, there are 7 repeating month and day numbers in the annual season, such as the first month of the first month (Spring Festival) and February.

February, March. March, May 5 (Dragon Boat Festival), June.

June, July 7 (Qixi Festival) and September 9, has become a custom festival. On the 9th of September, the sun and the moon are combined, so it occupies an important place in the year and is the most worshipped mystical number in the faith.

The ninth day of September in the lunar calendar is the traditional Chongyang Festival of the Chinese. The Double Ninth Festival has a history of more than 2,000 years, China's first in 1989 will be the day of the elderly as the day of the elderly, every day, all over the country to organize the elderly mountaineering autumn outing, exchange feelings, and exercise skillfully. Many families also support their elders to go out to the countryside.

"Chongyang" is also called "Chongjiu", because the "Book of Changes" sets "nine" as the yang number, September 9, two nines overlap, the ancients believed that it was an auspicious day worth celebrating. According to the literature, as early as the Warring States Period, during the Double Ninth Festival, the folk had the custom of climbing high and drinking chrysanthemum wine, as a festival, when in the Western Han Dynasty. The activities on this day of the Chung Yeung Festival are rich and colorful, generally including traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and overlooking, watching chrysanthemums, planting dogwoods all over the place, eating Chongyang cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine, etc.

In ancient times, the folk had the custom of ascending during the Double Ninth Festival, so the Double Ninth Festival was also called the "Ascending Festival". According to legend, this custom began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. There is no uniform rule on the location of climbing, and it is generally to climb the mountain and climb the tower.

The custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine during the Double Ninth Festival originated from Tao Yuanming, a great poet of the Jin Dynasty. Tao Yuanming is famous for his seclusion, poetry, drinking, and love chrysanthemum; Later generations followed him, and then there was the custom of admiring chrysanthemums in Chongyang.

Dogwood and hairpin chrysanthemums are also important customs of the Double Ninth Festival, which were already common in the Tang Dynasty. The ancients believed that on the day of the Chung Yeung Festival, dogwood could take refuge and ward off disasters. So people wore dogwood on their arms, or ground it in a sachet, and put it on their heads.

Most of them are worn by women and children, and in some places men also wear them. In addition to wearing dogwoods, people also wear chrysanthemums on their heads. In the Qing Dynasty, the custom of the Double Ninth Festival in Beijing was to stick chrysanthemum branches and leaves on doors and windows to "remove evil and attract good luck".

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The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival in China, and during the Double Ninth Festival, people will have activities such as stepping on autumn and climbing heights, so what is the date of the Double Ninth Festival?

Chung Yeung Festival falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year.

In ancient times, the folk had the customs of climbing high to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwoods, worshipping gods and ancestors, and drinking and feasting to pray for Yu Hushou during the Double Ninth Festival. Inherited so far, it has added connotations such as respect for the elderly, and enjoyed a banquet on the day of Chongyang to be grateful and respect for the elderly. Climbing to appreciate autumn and thanksgiving and respecting the elderly are the two important themes of today's Chung Yeung Festival activities.