What are the names of the theme activities of the Double Ninth Festival?

1, basking in autumn

The Double Ninth Festival is the best time to enjoy autumn, and some mountain villages in the south of China still retain the characteristics of "basking in autumn". Going to the countryside to appreciate the folk customs and watch the autumn sun has become a fashion in rural tourism. "Sunbathing in autumn" is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon with strong regional characteristics.

Villagers living in mountainous areas such as Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui and Jiangxi. It has become a traditional agricultural custom to use the roof in front of the house and the window sill to hang crops.

This special lifestyle and scene of villagers drying crops has gradually become the material pursued and created by painters and photographers, and created a poetic name "drying autumn".

2. Fly a kite.

Flying kites is one of the main customs of the Double Ninth Festival in southern China. The folk Double Ninth Festival is characterized by flying kites. Guangxu's "Huizhou Fuzhi" is also recorded. In the folk tradition, besides climbing mountains, flying kites is also a major feature of the Double Ninth Festival.

As for why people fly kites (kites) on the Double Ninth Festival, apart from the climatic reasons that the sky is high and the clouds are light, and the wind is light and bright, paper kites can easily ride the wind, and there are some sayings that are between wizards and witches, which are quite interesting without thinking.

Legend has it that flying kites on the Double Ninth Festival is for "bad luck". The higher a kite flies, the more bad luck it takes away. What's more, in order to make the kite disappear, it is necessary to specially break this thread.

Another explanation is that flying kites in Chongyang is "auspicious" and "lucky". The better the kite flies, the more blessed it is. People who fly kites not only can't break the silk thread, but also must do everything possible to protect it, because when the silk thread is broken, "auspiciousness" and "luck" will also drift away.

Step 3: climb the mountain

The custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival has a long history. In ancient times, there was the custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival, so it was also called "Climbing Festival". The climbing custom of Chongyang originated from the climate characteristics at this time and the worship of mountains by the ancients.

Climbing is also a solar term originated from nature, and climbing on the Double Ninth Festival corresponds to the spring outing of ancient people in spring and March. According to documents, the custom of "climbing to pray for blessings" was popular during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. There is no uniform regulation on the place of climbing, and the place of climbing is generally divided into mountain climbing, building climbing or platform climbing.

There are four origins of high customs: first, the ancients worshipped mountains; Second, it comes from the climate of "clearing the air, raising the turbidity and sinking the gas"; Thirdly, it stems from the "resignation" of climbing; Fourth, it originated from an absurd legend in the attached meeting, "climbing mountains to avoid disasters." The ancient ancients worshipped mountains and formed the custom of "climbing to pray for blessings".

Dai Sheng wrote "Sacrifice Ceremony" in the Western Han Dynasty: "Mountains, rivers, valleys and hills can make storms, and when they meet monsters, they are all called gods." According to documents, the ancients revered and worshipped mountains, and the custom of "climbing to pray for blessings" was popular as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

4. Tattoo

The ancients regarded Chongyang and Shangsi (or Qingming) as the corresponding spring and autumn festivals. If thinking above is a festival for people to go swimming after the long winter, then Chongyang is a ceremonial autumn outing when the autumn is cold and the new is coming, and people are about to live in seclusion, so there are the folk customs of "going for an outing" in Tomb-Sweeping Day and "bidding farewell to youth" on the Double Ninth Festival.

5. Enjoy the feast and pray for your birthday

The custom of seeking longevity on the Double Ninth Festival was first seen in the documents of Han Dynasty. It is recorded in the Han book Miscellanies of Xijing: "On September 9, Pei Yun ate the bait and drank chrysanthemum wine, and the clouds made people live longer." The Chronicle of Jingchu Age said: "On September 9th, four people got together for a picnic."

Duke Du of Sui wrote: "I don't know when the banquet on September 9 started, and it hasn't changed since I was stationed in the Song Dynasty." On the basis of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors, longevity and feasting were increased, forming the basis of the Double Ninth Festival. In fact, the large-scale banquet activities of the Double Ninth Festival developed from the harvest celebrations and sacrificial banquets in the pre-Qin period. Today, the custom of paying homage to the elderly and praying for a long life is still popular in some places.