Deming Power Celebrating The Double Ninth Festival

The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival. It falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. Ancient folk in the Double ninth Festival has the custom of climbing, so the Double Ninth Festival is also called "climbing festival". The Double ninth mountain-climbing custom stems from the climatic characteristics of this time and the ancient people's worship of mountains. Climbing "Ci Qing" is also derived from the nature of the solar terms, Double ninth Festival climbing "Ci Qing" and the ancients in Yangchun March spring outing corresponding.

In the folk concept, the ninth double ninth, because it is a homonym with "long time", nine is the largest number in the number, so it gives the meaning of everlasting life, long life, health and longevity. Ninety-nine is the anode number, ninety-nine return, one yuan begins, Vientiane renewal; Ancient people believed that the Double Ninth Festival was an auspicious day worth celebrating. In ancient times, there was a custom of drinking and praying for longevity on the Double Ninth Festival.

The Double Ninth Festival and New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, July and half are traditional Chinese ancestor worship festivals, ancestor worship is a major theme of the main festivals. Ancient China belonged to an agricultural society and agricultural civilization, which attached great importance to the experience of ancestors. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has had the concept of honoring ancestors and being careful to end up far away, and has the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors every festival to show filial piety and not forget the root cause.