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By staff reporter DANG XIAOFEI
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绩效考核总结HE Double Ninth Festival is an important traditional festival in China, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lu-nar calendar. This year, it falls on October 7. Chine people in ancient times had the custom of climbing a height to enjoy distant views, car-rying a spray of cornel and appreciating chrysan-themums on this day. Therefore, the Double Ninth Festival is also called the Mountain Climbing Fes-tival, the Cornel Festival, or the Chrysanthemum Festival. Its origin dates back more than 2,000 years.
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Origin
The origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to ancient times. In September, when
crops were harvested, the people of tho times held activities to worship ancestors and the Heaven, the supreme ruler in Chine mythology, in order to ex-press their gratitude to the Heaven and their ances-tors for their benevolence. This was the original form of the Double Ninth Festival as
a harvest festival in autumn.
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In the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), the Double Ninth Festival had received attention, but few activities were held in the royal palace. Documents in the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) also recorded the ancient custom of praying for longevity on the Double Ninth Festival. By the Wei and Jin Dynasties (220-420), the festive atmosphere became more pro-nounced, with the custom of appreciating chrysan-themums and drinking wine established. The festival was also celebrated by the literati and poets.
In the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the Double Ninth Festival was designated as a formal festival. From then on, the court and the people had celebrated it with various activities. By the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), on the Double Ninth Festival, royalty in the imperial palace would eat cakes to celebrate, and the emperor himlf would climb the Longevity Hill. This custom was pasd down to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
In folklore, “nine” and “long” are homonyms, and nine is the largest singular number, so it means long life, health, and longevity. In 1989, China designated the Double Ninth Festival as the Seniors’ Day. In 2006, the State Council designated the Double Ninth Festi-val as China’s intangible cultural heritage.
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Legend has it that in the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), a Plague Devil roamed about along the Ruhe River, originating in central China’s Henan Province. As soon as it appeared, all families fell ill without ex-ception and people died every day. The general public residing in this region were ravaged by the Plague Devil.
At that time, there was a young man named Huan Jing in Runan County. One year, the plague took the lives of his parents, and he nearly lost his own life. After recovery, he left his beloved wife and his fellow countrymen and went to visit the immortals to mas-ter various skills and rid the people of the plague. Huan Jing, after an arduous and dangerous jour-ney, ultimately found an immortal in a mountain.
CulTure / TradiTional Chine FesTiVals
The Double Ninth Festival
People enjoy an invigorating au-tumn climate, and climb up the city wall for a view in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
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come out to commit sinful deeds again. Now that you have learned martial arts, you should go back and cut off the evildoer for the people!” The immor-tal gave him a pack of cornel leaves and a bottle of Ascending to a height: This custom origi-nates from the climatic characteristics of the time and the worship of mountains by the ancients. The heights could be mountains, tall buildings, or high platfor
ms. The ancients not only climbed high, but also enjoyed the red leaves and wild flowers on the mountain while having a picnic.
Eating double ninth cakes: Double ninth
cake, also known as flower cake, has no fixed method for cooking. At dawn on the festival, people begin to make this cake and wish children all the best. The exquisite double-ninth cake should be made into nine layers, like a pagoda, on which two flour lambs are made as the pronunciation of Chongyang (double ninth) is the same as that of two sheep.
Appreciating chrysanthemums: On the Double Ninth Day, a chrysanthemum gathering is held. Crowds of people flock to the gathering to appreciate the chrysan-themums. Since the Wei and Jin dynasties of the Three Kingdoms period (220-280), it has become fashionable to drink wine, ap-preciate chrysanthemums, and write poems at the Double Ninth Festival gatherings. In Chine customs, chrysanthemum symbol-izes longevity.
evade disasters. People either wore the cor-nel in their arms or made sachets to put the cornel in. They also wore the cornel on their heads, though mostly by women and chil-dren. In some places, men also wore them.Drinking chrysanthemum wine: In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was reg
arded as “auspicious wine” that must be drunk on the Double Ninth Festival to dispel disasters and pray for good luck. Chrysanthemum wine is a kind of medicinal wine with a slightly bitter taste, which can make people bright and refreshed after drinking, and also has the attributed benefit of dispelling disasters.
tural society, which needed to rely on the experience and wisdom of predecessors for farming, thus forming the culture of ancestor worship.
Practicing hormanship and archery: In ancient times, people also practiced hor-manship and archery on this day. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties (420-589), the court stipulated that on the Double Ninth Festival every year, military officers had to practice hor-riding and archery as part of a military examination ction. Only when they pasd the archery exams could they take exams on other subjects.
of chrysanthemum wine. His face changing abruptly, he shivered and dared not move forward. Huan Jing, with the demon-slaying sword, stormed down the mountain immediately. After veral rounds of Citizens greet the Double Ninth Festival and enjoy chrysanthemums in autumn in Chuzhou, Anhui Province.
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