Why the Double Ninth Festival has become one of the four major folk festivals. It is related to the traditional culture of the Double Ninth Festival. This custom can be traced back to the pre-Qin period.
The ancient book "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals-Ancient Spring and Autumn Annals" said: In September, I was ordered to be buried and prepared for farming, and five essentials were introduced. The Tibetan emperor's book is collected in the holy warehouse, and it is only respectful. "
There is also: "It is the moon, and the emperor tastes the sacrifice and tells the son of heaven." Judging from the contents recorded in these ancient books, the ancients used the crops and fruits harvested in autumn to hold activities such as offering sacrifices to God and ancestors on the Double Ninth Festival of the ninth lunar month.
In the traditional culture of China, people think that the number "9" is the extreme number of Yang and the largest number in the singular. So there is a saying that every nine will change.
Therefore, the ancients called the emperor "the statue of the Ninth Five-Year Plan" and the most famous bronze tripod "Jiuding", which means that when a person keeps his word and is most honest, he is often called "trustworthy"; In addition, there are Kyushu, Nine Emperors, Nine Gates of Bauhinia City, and 9,999 and a half palaces in the world. Tiananmen Gate is nine rooms wide and nine rooms deep. Even every door is a "nine-way nail", nine horizontally and vertically, with a total of 998 1 nail.
People regard nine as the supreme, and they are also afraid of its prosperity and decline. Therefore, the Double Ninth Festival is not only the Double Ninth Festival, but also a long-term auspicious homonym. It is regarded by emperors as an important festival for offering sacrifices to Tianzong, ancestral halls and carrying out activities to respect the elderly.
Emperors of past dynasties often provided 99 kinds of fruits and snacks on the Double Ninth Festival, which were used for grand banquets of court festivals. At the same time, there will be 998 1 festival programs such as sacrificial dance, named "999th Anniversary Club".
"On September 9th, dogwood, eat Peng Er, drink chrysanthemum wine, cloud makes people live longer. These four people are doing field activities. "
Since the Western Han Dynasty, people also offered sacrifices on the occasion of the arrival of the Double Ninth Festival, in order to live longer, which did not change until the Song Dynasty.
On the Double Ninth Festival on September 9, in addition to offering sacrifices to heaven and earth and ancestors, the ancients also offered sacrifices to natural mountain gods after the bumper harvest and the busy autumn harvest to avoid disasters and seek happiness.
This is because there are two reasons: First, the ancients thought that "nine is Lao Yang, the anode must change", and the Double Ninth Festival is unlucky because it is a number calculated by Lao Yang on a monthly and daily basis; The second is feeling? With a cordial mood, after the autumn harvest is ripe, people go to the mountains to collect fruits, herbs and other fruits, which is called "small autumn harvest", thanking nature for its feedback to mankind.
To sum up, both emperors and generals and ordinary people pay special attention to the sacrificial activities of the Double Ninth Festival, the main purpose of which is to ward off evil spirits and seek longevity.
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References: China myths and folklore, China traditional culture, etc.