What is the meaning of the Double Ninth Festival?

What is the meaning of the Double Ninth Festival?
As one of the core contents of Chinese culture, let’s take a look at the significance of the Double Ninth Festival. Want to know your fortune in the ninth month of the lunar calendar in 2018? Want to know your love in the ninth month of the lunar calendar in 2018? Want to know your fortune in the ninth month of the lunar calendar in 2018? Follow Mr. Shui Mo and he will help you with predictions at any time!

The significance of Double Ninth Festival

The Double Ninth Festival is on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year. Because two nines overlap, it is also called "Double Ninth". Why is it called "Double Ninth Festival"? In ancient times, two, four, six, eight, and ten were yin numbers, and one, three, five, seven, and nine were yang numbers, and nine was the largest yang number. It is written in the ancient book (Book of Changes): "Nine is the yang line." Two yangs are repeated, so it is also called "Double Ninth Festival." The Double Ninth Festival, also known as the Double Ninth Festival and "Ta Qiu", is a traditional festival of the Han nationality in my country and was officially designated as a folk festival in the Tang Dynasty. Because there is a custom of climbing heights on the Double Ninth Festival, the Double Ninth Festival is also known as the Climbing Heights Festival. In addition, there are also other names such as Dogwood Festival and Chrysanthemum Festival, which are all derived from the customs. On December 28, 2012, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress voted to pass the "Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly", which clearly stipulates that the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar (Double Ninth Festival) is Senior Citizens' Day. The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Double Ninth Festival, also known as "Old People's Day." It was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list by the State Council, advocating that the whole society establish a culture of respecting, honoring, loving and helping the elderly. Not only that, the Double Ninth Festival also includes the meaning of climbing high places to appreciate flowers, drinking chrysanthemum wine with relatives, etc., mainly to spread a core culture of reunion.

What are the food customs on Double Ninth Festival?

Eat flower cakes to respect the elderly on the Double Ninth Festival and climb high to avoid disasters. "Gao" is homophonic with "gao", which means "progress step by step" and "live a long life", so "Chongyang Flower Cake" has become a popular festival food. Drinking chrysanthemum wine Due to the unique property of chrysanthemum in resisting the cold, chrysanthemum has become a symbol of vitality. It has unusual cultural significance to the ancients, who believed it to be a "longevity prolonger" and "immortality grass" that can make people stronger as they age. Eating chestnut cake There are two Beijing snacks that are eaten exclusively during the Double Ninth Festival, one is flower cake and the other is chestnut cake. Eating glutinous rice cakes and glutinous rice cakes is another food custom during the Double Ninth Festival in southwestern China. Ciba is divided into two types: soft and sweet, and hard and salty. Eating persimmons is also a food custom of the Double Ninth Festival, which is said to have been passed down from Zhu Yuanzhang. Eating crabs on the Double Ninth Festival has two meanings. One is that around the Double Ninth Festival, the crab meat is delicious and the crab roe is thick. The other is that the Double Ninth Festival is a filial piety festival. As the weather gets colder, you should prepare a set of warm clothes for your elderly parents, give them a few delicious Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, and make a cup of warm ginger tea, so that the elderly can spend the autumn and winter in warmth. Eating mutton noodles, "yang" and "yang" are homophones, which corresponds to the Double Ninth Festival. Eat white flour. “White” is the character “bai” without the “one” on top, which means one hundred minus one equals ninety-nine, which corresponds to the “nine-nine” tradition.

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