Years and years of heavy yang, now heavy yang. On October 14, the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth lunar calendar, the Chongyang Festival of 2021 is coming.
Chongyang season, the sky is high and cloudy, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, it is advisable to climb high and look far away, and to enjoy the autumn; in the Chongyang season, the autumn leaves are full of gardens, the chrysanthemum wine is fragrant, and it is advisable to return to the hometown, filial piety and respect for the elderly.
On this "nine-nine" festival, I wish all wishes and loves to be "long and long".
Chongyang caprice
(Excerpt) Author/February River
The Chinese New Year festival basically says three things: worshiping gods, worshipping ancestors, and relaxing to eat and drink. The first two aside, our agricultural country, for thousands of years, labor and cultivation from the land "scraping gold", people can say that they are tired, usually accumulate a little delicious, reluctant to eat; easy to use, go to the ground to hoe the grass is reluctant to use. During the festival, in addition to asking the gods and ancestors to bless "the better the better", all the "reluctances" on weekdays are released through this.
Therefore, there are very few festivals that have nothing to do with the gods and ancestors, and very few festivals that have nothing to do with eating and drinking. But there is one section that seems to be very light in all three aspects. Three things are also done, but the bean cigarette is not popular, and the delicacies seem to be less serious than other festivals, which is the Chongyang Festival.
Chongyang is "two suns overlapping"? No. September 9 is the number of two "anodes", overlapping together, hence the name.
This festival is a festival of tourism - what we used to call "tourism" is to put it bluntly today's "tourism". There is no modern means of transportation, no asphalt roads, and I will make a short trip to my own family. Bring your own food and "drinks" - wine, go - go up the mountain, go up the mountain, see the blue clouds and yellow flowers go, watch the maple leaves go! Play in the mountains, get tired of playing, go home, and this festival will be over.
"The sun is coming, the blind rain is all over the city, the cool breeze is everywhere, the pavilions are falling leaves, and the clouds are flying." Just a few words, it can be said that it is the ultimate language to describe Chongyang, I have seen in many essay articles, almost all of them are not easy to quote word for word.
How to talk about the "blindness" of blind rain, I have not studied, think about the appearance of the rain you see, it should be not a big rain, more precisely, the kind of rain that is "small in the rain", this rain, go out to ascend for a day trip, how to say that it is a little bigger. But man, as long as you are in the mood, happy, take rain gear, pick up wine and snacks, you will go up the mountain. What kind of pomp and circumstance was that? Shen Shixing has a poem:
On September 9, the wind was beautiful, and Wu Shansheng was praised.
100,000 households in Lulu City, fighting for the door out of Guo.
Clap your hands and sing the Taiping Song in unison, and compete for the flowers.
……
This poem really writes the form of people's carnival to the fullest, to the extreme, in it, even if you are an introvert, you will be cheerful, you can't play deeply.
In fact, as far as people's psychology is concerned, they are looking forward to a little rain. The autumn leaves of the mountains are colorful and scattered, if under the bright sun, it is too real, not hazy enough, not subtle enough, and somewhat incompatible with the aesthetic taste of Chinese. Drinking wine and watching the mountains under the sun also has a little less of the meaning of "autumn cool". But there is another layer of more realistic and beneficial ideas: "Chongyang without rain, winter without rain and snow." "It will affect the harvest for the coming year.
Planting zhu zhu, drinking chongyang wine, eating cakes, and ascending to the heights, pinning people with two moods: hoping that their relatives in the distance are safe, and hoping that their lives will "step by step".
It's a festival of joy.
Excerpts from the article have been slightly edited
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Chongyang Festival, these things to know
The ancients set "nine" as "yang number", the first nine of September, two nine phases of weight, so it is called "heavy yang", also called "heavy nine". And because "nine nine" is homophonous with "long time", taking the meaning of long life, the ancients thought that this was a particularly auspicious day worth celebrating. The ninth day of the first month of September became a festival, dating back to the Han Dynasty, and was officially named chongyang festival in the Tang Dynasty, which has been followed to this day.
Drink chrysanthemum wine
"On the ninth of September, drink chrysanthemum wine, and everyone is drunk with chrysanthemums." Chrysanthemum wine is regarded as the "auspicious wine" that must be drunk in Chongyang and prayed for disaster relief. At this time, chrysanthemums are in full bloom, and people appreciate chrysanthemums, daisies, drink chrysanthemums, and eat chrysanthemums, which can be said to be "no chrysanthemums and no heavy yang".
Flower cake
Because "cake" is homophonous with "high", the ancients believed that eating heavy sunflower cake can be "Pepsi high". According to the "Miscellaneous Records of Xijing", the Han Dynasty already had the custom of eating peng bait on September 9, and the bait was the ancient flower cake.
mountain climbing
September 9 is the mid-autumn season, and autumn is high. People ascend to the top of Chongyang, which is the most appropriate in terms of season. Standing on the top of the mountain, the wine is facing the wind, and there must be a taste in your heart.
Planted
The ancients believed that on the day of the Chongyang Festival, planting a cocoon could ward off evil spirits and seek good fortune, or wear it on the arm, or insert it into a bun, or make a sachet and sachet to carry with you.
This year's Chongyang Festival is also the ninth legal "Elderly Festival" in China, it can be said that today's Chongyang Festival has become a festival around the elderly, respecting the elderly and loving the elderly is its core essence.
According to the main data of the seventh national census conducted last year, China's population aged 60 and above is 264 million, accounting for 18.70% of China's total population. This number is expected to exceed 300 million in 2025, 400 million in 2033 and 487 million in 2053.
With so many elderly people, how to achieve "old age support, old age dependence, old age enjoyment, old age peace" requires the joint efforts of the whole society. For individuals, it is better to start with the closest and most important elderly people in our lives: our parents.
We have all seen the appearance of parental love, it is the "motherly line" in Mengjiao's poems, the "back shadow" in Zhu Ziqing's text, and the "leading clothes" and "leaning on the pavilion" written by countless writers again and again.
"White hair urges old age, and Qingyang forces the age to get rid of." Now that our parents are old, what can we do?
We can "always go home to see", we can "try not to let them become cautious because of your face", we can "accept their aging, disease, childishness, because accepting them is accepting their future selves".
We can also "filial piety to the family, great filial piety to the country", we can also "the old man, and the old man", and we can also "teach the order of the order, and the righteousness of filial piety".
If filial piety is the "foundation of virtue" and "the scripture of heaven, the righteousness of the earth, and the deeds of the people", then respecting the elderly is the common human sentiment and moral standard of a civilized society.
On this day in Chongyang, we trace the tradition of filial piety and respect for the elderly, which advocates a thousand years, and feel the weight condensed in time and life.
However, how can filial piety and respect for the elderly rely on the reminder of a specific day, which should be rooted in the bones and blood, inscribed in this heart, and practiced every day.
At this moment, if you are with your parents, remember to give them a hug and say thank you.
At the moment, if you are struggling in a foreign land, you can pick up your mobile phone, send them a message, make a phone call, and say that you miss it.
Golden autumn is happy for a long time, and may the king be happy and healthy.
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