First of all, the Double Ninth Festival was also called Gordon Festival in ancient times. The origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to the pre-Qin period. Records in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals:? (September) Ordered slaughter at home to prepare crops for harvesting. Give five essentials. The Tibetan emperor's book is collected in the holy warehouse, and it is only respectful. . ? It's the day, the great emperor, to taste the sacrifice and tell the son of heaven ? It can be seen that at that time, when the crops were harvested in autumn and September, there were activities of offering sacrifices to the emperor and ancestors to thank them for their kindness.
Second, the Double Ninth Festival comes from a fairy story in Taoism: the story of exorcising demons in Hengjing on the ninth day of September. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a plague demon that ravaged the people everywhere and caused untold suffering everywhere. At this time, Hengjing's hometown was also hurt, so he went to learn from the teacher and vowed to slay the plague demon. When he heard that there lived a big fairy named Fei Changfang in the southeast mountainous area, he packed his bags and set off for the mountains to learn from his teacher. Fei Changfang gave Huan Jing a demon-reducing dragon sword. Huan Jing got up early and went to bed late, dressed in Dai Yue, and practiced day and night. Another year in a blink of an eye. Huan Jing was practicing sword that day, and Fei Changfang came over and said to him that on September 9 this year, the plague of Ruhe would come out again. Hurry back to your hometown and kill people. I'll send you a bag of dogwood leaves and a bottle of chrysanthemum wine to let the elders in your hometown climb the mountain to avoid disaster. Finally succeeded in killing the plague demon. In memory of him, people call this day the Double Ninth Festival.
Three, one of the prototypes of the Double Ninth Festival is the ancient fire ceremony. As a symbol of ancient seasons and stars? Fire? Star, retired in September, said summer? September fire? ,? Fire? The retreat of the stars not only made the ancients who had always regarded Mars as a symbol of seasonal production and seasonal life lose the coordinates of time, but also made the ancients who worshipped fire as a god feel inexplicable fear. The dormancy of Vulcan means a long winter. So, in? Internal fire? In the season, just as there is a ceremony to greet a fire when it appears, people should also hold a corresponding farewell ceremony. ?
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