In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was regarded as "auspicious wine" that Chongqing must drink and dispel disaster. Ge Hong Jin Dynasty in the "Baopuzi" recorded in Nanyang Mountain, Henan Province, people, because of drink all over the daisy of glutinous rice water and longevity thing. Until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, chrysanthemum wine is still prevalent. Ancient chrysanthemum wine, Chung Yeung Festival is the first year for the second year Chung Yeon Festival stuffed. On September 9, the first day's chrysanthemums and a few verdure branches and leaves were collected and used in cereal for brewing, which will be consumed on September 9 next year. In addition to ascend the dogwood, relatives and friends are invited on March 5, together with drinking chrysanthemum, a total of yellow flowers, do not have some fun.
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Fructus corni, also known as "more pepper" "Aiko", is an evergreen with fragrant plants, with insecticidal disinfection, cold expelling the wind function. According to the custom of the ancient Chinese people, on September 9, at the Chung Yeung Festival, they climbed the mountain and climbed high. They wore cloth bags containing dogwood (anciently known as "dogwood sac") to show their nostalgia for friends and family. Chung Yeung Festival and the relationship between dogwood, the earliest seen in the "Kai Qi Kai-kai," a story: Ruanan Huan Jing long room to learn with fee. One day, Fei Chang said to Huan Jing. On September 9, there will be a catastrophe in your family. The way to solve this problem is to ask his family to make a colorful bag with dogwood wrapped around his arms, climbing the mountain and drinking Jujiu. On the first day of September, the Huanjing family took the same action and returned home later in the evening to see that all the chickens, fighters, and sheep in the family had died, and the whole family was safe and sound due to going out. So dogwood "evil spirits" argument will be handed down.
Chongyang this day, picking its foliage. The red clove actually stitched into a small capsule, worn on the body, can be used to exterminate the evil of the gas, is often used in ancient times as anti-epidemic folk medicine. Chongyang section of the dogwood wind, in the Tang Dynasty has been very common, Du Fu's "19th Lam Tin Cui Zhuang," there will be "next year will know who health, drunk to carefully see the dogwood" sentence.
However, after the Song and Yuan dynasties, the custom of dogwood gradually became scarce. The reason for this change probably comes from the shift in the focus of Chung Yeung Festival. In the early years of the populace's life, Chongyang emphasized the evil and disaster elimination. With the improvement of people's living conditions, the status of "Yanshouke" (Chrysanthemum) eventually overshadowed the "evil spire" (dogwood).
Climb high
Ascension is an important custom Chung Yeung Festival. This custom by the Eastern Han Runan Huan Jing ascended the throne on September 9 to avoid the disaster come. In the Wei and Jin dynasties, the ascent date was set for September 9. "Jingchu Chronicle" said that on September 9, people from all walks of life in the industrial and commercial sectors of Agriculture and Agriculture went to the outskirts to set foot high for banquets and drinking. The Eastern Jin Dynasty poet Xie Lingyun in order to ascend the convenience, but also made a kind of before and after the iron teeth mounted clogs, remove the front teeth when going up the mountain, remove the back teeth when downhill, known as "Xie Gong 屐." In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor personally went uphill to Mount Vientiane. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a rockery in the imperial garden for imperial ascension. In Beijing folk, early Deng Fucheng outside the Wuta Temple and Zuoanmen within France as Sheng, the late Qing Dynasty to Taoranting Pavilion, Jimen tobacco trees (German outside the city), the Bada Department for more.
