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The festivals in the second half of the year seem to be very crowded, and not long after the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the Chung Yeung Festival. Chung Yeung Festival may be a more important festival outside, mainly for the elderly, also known as the Old Man's Day. However, the Double Ninth Festival in Chujiazhai is not very special, and there is not even a celebratory atmosphere.

"It doesn't make sense! There is a reason why the Chung Yeung Festival is not popular in the cities outside, and in the countryside where the customs of the Chinese nation are inherited, there is no movement, don't you think it's strange? Ye Jisheng was puzzled.

If this is changed to the city, except for the Spring Festival, almost all traditional festivals will be diluted, but the Western festivals will be popular. It is not difficult to understand that traditional culture has been impacted by overseas culture.

Even Chu Jiaqiang can't explain this thing, but since he can remember, there has been no very special activity during the Double Ninth Festival, that is, he has heard about the Chongyang Ascending Dogwood and the like in books.

"Then I don't know, anyway, Chujiazhai, or the entire surrounding area, is like this, and the Double Ninth Festival is not very popular. Just guess it! This festival is mainly celebrated by the elderly, who in our rural areas are not so happy, and may be busy with various autumn harvest matters. In addition, just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, I spent some manpower, material and financial resources, and I don't want to break the bank on this festival. Chu Jiaqiang said his two guesses.

This actually makes quite sense, in ancient times. In fact, this festival is just that some literati pay more attention to it, and the farmers are busy with their livelihoods, and they don't know what the fun of climbing high and planting dogwoods is.

As for the origin of the name Chongyang, Chu Jiaqiang also understands it. Chung Yeung Festival is the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. In the Book of Changes, "nine" is set as the yang number, and the ninth day of the ninth month of September, the two nines are overlapping, so it is called Chongyang.

This festival dates back to the Warring States period and is also a very traditional festival. Hear Chu Jiaqiang's explanation. Professor Wen and others nodded, in ancient China, this festival should be a relatively high-end festival, and it is often celebrated by literati and ink writers. As for the folk, it is due to superstition, and Chongyang needs to climb high and other ways to ward off evil spirits on this day.

"Actually! In ancient times. There is also a program this night, which is to watch the stars. Autumn tends to be cloudless, and the starry sky at night is even better than in summer. However, this activity was slowly diluted. Fu Shenglin also said.

At this time, Chen Wu and the others were also a little confused. Drinking chrysanthemum wine and wearing dogwood can ward off evil spirits, which they can understand, but what kind of way is climbing to ward off evil spirits?

Chu Jiaqiang thought. In the traditional thinking of the Chinese, there are gods and immortals on the mountain, and it is natural that they can ward off evil spirits, and there is nothing strange about it.

There's a myth in that, too. Hong Lao told everyone. Legend has it that during the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a plague demon in the Ru River, and as soon as it appeared, someone in every family fell ill. Every day people die, and the people of this area are ravaged by the plague. A plague robs the parents of the young Huan Jing. He himself almost died of illness.

After recovering from his illness, he said goodbye to his beloved wife and his father, and decided to go out to visit immortals to learn art and get rid of the plague for the people. Huan Jing searched everywhere to find the way, visited the famous mountains and scholars all over the world, and finally found out that there was one of the oldest mountains in the east, and there was an immortal chief with boundless magic on the mountain.

Huan Jing was not afraid of hardships and the distance of the road, and under the guidance of the crane, he finally found the immortal. The immortal chief did not disappoint him, not only gave him the ability to subdue demons and eliminate demons, but also gave him a demon exterminating sword.

A year later, when it was almost September 9, the immortal chief asked him to take the crane back to save people. Before leaving, he gave him chrysanthemum wine and dogwood. When he returned, he followed the instructions of the immortal chief and got rid of the plague demon.

Later, people regarded the custom of climbing the Chung Yeung Festival as an activity to avoid disasters and avoid disasters. In addition, in the traditional concept of the Central Plains people, Double Nine also means long life, health and longevity, so the Double Ninth Festival was later established as the Old People's Day......

In fact, many folk festivals are inherited from a mythical story, and many of them have evolved from superstition. Despite this, there is a positive side to the good wishes of the common people.

Although there are no activities in Chujiazhai, many tourists still organize and go up the mountain to step on the autumn together, which is a day of autumn.

"Let's all go out for a walk! Stepping into autumn is good for physical and mental health. Chu Jiaqiang agreed with these wild activities in his heart. Life is in motion! Climbing is a great way to exercise.

Of course, Ye Caiping can't climb because she is pregnant. Even if Chu Jiaqiang was waiting beside her, the second uncle and aunt would not let her run away to take risks. Regarding Ye Caiping's eyes for help, Chu Jiaqiang had no choice but to help. In the end, Ye Caiping had no choice but to tell Chu Jiaqiang to bring her something back.

In addition to climbing, many people also carry bags and other things, ready to go up the mountain to pick wild chrysanthemums, wild fruits, and so on.

"Can you eat this wild fruit?" Some tourists asked Chu Jiaqiang. He saw that Chu Jiaqiang didn't do anything just now, and when he found this vermilion fruit, he picked it violently, and he didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, he picked it first.

"Huh? This is the dogwood fruit, don't you know? It can be eaten, it is Chinese medicine. Chu Jiaqiang was stunned.

The man's eyes widened even more: "Why is it different from what I saw before?" ”

Xu Hao suddenly smiled and explained, "What you see are dogwoods. Let's put it this way! There are also three kinds of dogwood, this is Dogwood, because it is produced in Wu with the best quality, so it is named, also called Yue pepper or mugwort, usually seen in the south. There is also the dogwood, which may be the one you have seen before, which is generally found in the north. ”

"What's the other one?" Someone on the side asked.

"Another is dogwood." He introduced it to everyone. The branches of dogwood are distributed with milky spikes, and even birds dare not perch on them, so they are called "birds do not step on them". The leaves are pinnate compound leaves alternate, the leaflets are densely covered with transparent oil glands, there is aromatic fragrance, and the young leaves are often red, so it is called the red thorn tree.

Surprisingly, many butterfly larvae also like to eat the leaves of dogwood, which are butterfly-attracting plants. Dogwood blooms in spring, panicles, flowers are small, yellowish-white. Dogwood is an important nectar source plant, and when it blooms, it often attracts many butterflies, bees, beetles and other insects to come and suck the nectar, forming a peculiar landscape of "butterfly tree".

At this time, the monkey came out of the woods, and everyone laughed when they saw it.

I saw that the top of the guy's head was actually woven into a small ring with vines and put on his head, how weird it looked.

"This guy likes to cuckold?" Zhou Furong joked.

The little squirrel jumped up and down in front, picking some good fruits from time to time, and then bringing them back to Chu Jiaqiang, which was envied by many people.