The historical story of the Double Ninth Festival
The historical story of the Double Ninth Festival. The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival that falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. There are many folk customs and activities during the Double Ninth Festival, and there are also many historical stories about the Double Ninth Festival. Let’s take a look at the historical stories of the Double Ninth Festival. Historical story of the Double Ninth Festival 1
It is said that a long time ago, there was a farmer living at the foot of Lishan Mountain. The whole family was very hard-working and lived a good life.
One day, the owner of the family came back from the fields and met a fortune teller on the way. Because it was getting dark, the fortune teller had not found a place to rest. Since the owner's house was very narrow and only had a thatched hut, he built a thatched bunk in the kitchen and let his wife and children sleep on the thatched bunk. He and the fortune teller slept on the kang, making do with it.
At dawn the next day, the fortune teller was about to leave. The farmer woke up his wife and cooked a delicious meal for him. He also packed a bag of steamed buns for him. The fortune teller went out, looked at the place where the banker lived, and told him: "On September 9th, the whole family will go to a higher place." The banker thought, I don't do anything strange on weekdays, and I don't want to be promoted, so I will go to a higher place. What? But then I thought, people often say that fortune tellers can read Feng Shui and are proficient in astronomy. Maybe there will be something wrong where I live. On September 9th, go for a walk to a higher place and let the whole family enjoy the scenery.
On September 9th, villagers take their wives and children, carry flower cakes and wine on their backs, and climb to the peak of Lishan Mountain to play. After they went up the mountain, a spring suddenly appeared halfway up the mountain and rushed straight into his house, destroying his thatched shed in an instant. In a short time, the entire ravine was soaked. Only then did the banker understand why the fortune teller asked his family to climb the mountain on September 9th.
After this incident spread, people helped the old and the young to climb high every September 9th in the lunar calendar. This became a custom that has been passed down to this day. Historical Story of the Double Ninth Festival 2
Legend has it that a young couple fled their hometown due to the oppression of their brother and sister-in-law, built a thatched house in a reed farm to shelter from wind and rain, and grew grain on the spot to make a living. , life was very difficult. One day they were working in the fields, and suddenly two men in shabby clothes came over. One had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was holding a tattered bag. The other was a handsome face, with a treasure gourd hanging from his waist, and he was about to beg for food. Without saying a word, the couple gave them the two yellow noodle steamed buns they were going to eat. They were hungry. The two happily ate and sang: "I have a piece of grass, and my clothes are dyed as blue as treasures. Even when they are worn out, the color is still good." They scattered a lot of grass as they walked.
As winter turned to spring, there was a lot of grass growing here, which could not be removed with a hoe. The couple felt strange. The husband suddenly remembered that the grass was sown by the two people last year. He listened to them singing and saying, "It can be done." After dyeing, the couple cut the grass and put it in two large vats. The water in the vats turned blue the next day, but it could not be dyed. They thought they had been fooled. A few days later, there was a strong wind at night. As soon as I went to bed, someone knocked on the door and asked to stay overnight. The couple got up and opened the door, lit the oil lamp and saw that they were the beggars from last year. Seeing how pitiful they were, they kept the guests, arranged for them to sleep on a large tank, spread corn stalks and straw, and used an extra bag of lime from painting the walls. A powder mat was placed under the grass as a pillow. The young couple made arrangements and got ready to go to bed.
The guest said that I asked for some food today, and the other said that I still have some wine in the gourd. Let’s drink together. After saying that, he picked up the wine and drank it. Strangely enough, there was some wine in the gourd. After finishing the wine, everyone was drunk after a while. In the middle of the night, they had a drunken attack and vomited all the food and wine they had eaten into the vat. They also slipped the lime bags used as pillows into the vat. In the morning, the two of them stirred the pot with wooden sticks, picked up the broken bags and gourds, and ran away.
Early the next morning, the couple found it strange that the water in the vat had turned yellow, so they soaked the white cloth in the vat and tried dyeing it. After taking it out, the cloth quickly turned from yellow to blue. . The husband caught up with the two people and asked for details. They said that the grass was called bluegrass, and it could be dyed by adding the right amount of lime and wine. From then on, the couple opened a dyeing workshop, and the business grew bigger and bigger.
Afterwards, they found out that the two people were dyeing immortals - Mei Fu and Ge Hong. They specialized in teaching poor people to dye, so that people everywhere could wear color-fast and beautiful blue cloth. The method of reducing indigo by fermenting gray wine invented by Mei and Ge was widely taught in various places, and later generations respected the two masters Mei and Ge as the ancestors of cloth dyeing. In Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong and other regions, plum and kudzu immortal paper lanterns are hung in dyeing workshops.
In Hunan and Hubei areas, plum and Ge Xianweng are worshiped in the dyeing workshops on the Double Ninth Festival every September. During the sacrifice, in addition to placing the Mei Ge Immortals paper awnings, Guanyin, the God of Wealth, and the family hall boards are also placed. After the sacrifice, the printing paper code, wine and food, etc. are burned together. The masters and helpers in the dyeing workshop gather together to drink happily, wishing that the "Dyeing Vat God" will always be with them, and praying for the blessing of the "Dyeing Fairy" so that the dyed cloth will be of good quality in the coming year. , color is fast, so it is common in old folk dyeing workshops to have auspicious words such as "Vat water blends", "Vat comes out of gold" on the walls.