What about Chung Yeung Festival? What is Chung Yeung Festival

The Chung Yeung Festival is on September 9, and the Chung Yeung Festival on September 9 is special. A day to reunite with family. A day of missing family.

The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival that falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. The Chung Yeung Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the harvest sacrifice in the autumn season in ancient times. The number "nine" is a yang number in the Book of Changes, and the two yang numbers of "ninety-nine" are overlapping, so it is called "double yang"; Because the sun and the moon are all nine, it is also called "heavy nine".

The ancients believed that the Double Ninth Festival was an auspicious day.

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It is a traditional festival in China, the date is on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, the Double Ninth Festival comes from the celestial worship, and gradually evolved from the sacrifice after the harvest in autumn in ancient times.

It is estimated that most Chinese will be very familiar with the Chongyang Festival, after all, this is a traditional festival in China, but what day is the Chongyang Festival, what are the allusions to the Chongyang Festival, let's understand it together.

01 The number "nine" is a yang number in the Book of Changes, and the two yang numbers of "ninety-nine" are overlapping, so it is called "double yang"; Because the sun and the moon are all nine, it is also called "heavy nine". The ancients believed that the Double Ninth Festival was an auspicious day. In ancient times, people had the customs of climbing high to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwoods, worshipping gods and ancestors, and drinking feasts and praying for longevity during the Double Ninth Festival.

02 Inherited to the present, the connotation of respecting the elderly has been added, and the banquet will be enjoyed on the day of Chongyang Festival, thanking and respecting the elderly. Climbing to appreciate autumn and thanksgiving and respecting the elderly are the two important themes of today's Chung Yeung Festival activities.

03 The origin of the Chung Yeung Festival can be traced back to ancient times, when activities such as harvesting and worshipping ancestors were held in the autumn season. Included in "Lü's Spring and Autumn Season", the ancients sacrificed to the Emperor and their ancestors during the harvest of crops in September, in order to thank the Emperor and their ancestors for their kindness. This is the original form of Chung Yeung Festival as an autumn harvest festival.

The Double Ninth Festival began in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished after the Tang Dynasty.

04 Chongyang Festival, Chinese New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, and July and a half are all traditional Chinese ancestor worship festivals, and ancestor worship is a major theme of the main festivals. Ancient China belonged to an agrarian society, and agricultural civilization was a form of civilization that attached great importance to the experience of ancestors. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has had the concept of respecting ancestors and chasing the distance cautiously, and has the custom of sacrificing ancestors during festivals to show filial piety and never forget the roots.

05 In 1989, China set September 9 as the Old People's Day every year, combining tradition and modernity in a harmonious way, making this traditional festival a new festival of respecting, respecting, loving and helping the elderly. On December 28, 2012, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China voted to pass the newly revised Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly, which clarifies that the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Elderly Day.

In the process of inheritance and development, the Chung Yeung Festival has been passed down from generation to generation with festive activities full of life implications, and the themes of banquets and respect for the elderly, drinking and praying for longevity have gradually integrated with traditional Chinese filial piety ethics, and have become one of the important themes of today's Chung Yeung Festival activities.