The festival for the elderly generally refers to the Double Ninth Festival.
Double Ninth Festival, also known as Double Ninth Festival, is a traditional festival of Han nationality. Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and looking far, enjoying chrysanthemums, planting dogwood all over the place, eating double ninth cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities.
The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is also the four traditional ancestor worship festivals in China. The Double Ninth Festival was formed as early as the Warring States Period, and it was not officially designated as a festival of people's achievements until the Tang Dynasty. From generation to generation. Chongyang and the "spring outing" on March 3 are all family members. On Double Ninth Festival, all relatives should climb the mountain together to "avoid disaster".
When is the Old People's Day in China? It is also the Double Ninth Festival. 20 17 The Double Ninth Festival is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month and the 28th October of the new calendar.
When is the senior citizen's day in America? There is no Old People's Day in America, only American Grandparents' Day, which is the first Sunday after Labor Day in September every year.
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When is the Double Ninth Festival? Every year on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month.
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When is the International Day of Older Persons? Every year, 65438+1 October1is the International Day for the Elderly.
What's the date of Old People's Day? 20 15. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month in China, also known as the Double Ninth Festival. This year is June 65438+1October 2 1.
199 1 year, the United Nations adopted a resolution to designate 10+0 as the International Day of Older Persons.
China's Festival for the Elderly spread in the Eastern Han Dynasty. There is a plague demon in Ruhe River. As soon as it appeared, people fell ill and died every day, and people in this area were ravaged by plague demons.
A plague killed the parents of the teenager Hengjing, and he almost died of illness himself. After he recovered from his illness, he bid farewell to his beloved wife and fellow villagers and decided to go abroad to study fairy arts to rid the people of the plague. Heng Jing visited teachers everywhere and famous scholars all over the world. Finally, he found an oldest mountain in the east. There is a miraculous fairy on the mountain. Under the guidance of the crane, Hengjing finally found the mountain and the immortal with magical power. The immortal was moved by his spirit, and finally took in Heng Jing, taught him the sword to subdue the demon, and gave him a sword to subdue the demon. Hengjing forgot to eat, sleep and practice hard, and finally became an extraordinary martial art.
On this day, the immortal called Heng Jing to his side and said, "Tomorrow is the ninth day of September, and the plague god will come out to do evil again. When you learn the skill, you should go back and kill the people. " Xianchang gave Hengjing a pack of dogwood leaves and a cup of chrysanthemum wine, and secretly taught him how to ward off evil spirits and let Hengjing ride a crane home.
Hengjing returned to his hometown. On the morning of the ninth day of September, according to the fairy's instructions, he led the villagers to a nearby mountain and gave everyone a dogwood leaf and a cup of chrysanthemum wine to prepare for subduing the evil spirits. At noon, with several strange calls, Mo Wen rushed out of the Ruhe River, but just as Mo Wen jumped down the mountain, he suddenly smelled the strange fragrance of Cornus officinalis and the alcohol smell of Chrysanthemum, and his face suddenly changed. At this time, Heng Jing chased Mo Wen down the mountain with a demon sword in his hand, and stabbed him to death in a few rounds. Since then, the custom of climbing mountains on the ninth day of September to avoid epidemics has been handed down year after year. Wu Yun, a native of A Liang, recorded this point in his book Qi and He Xu.
Later, people regarded the custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival as an activity to avoid disasters. In addition, in the traditional concept of people in the Central Plains, the Double Ninth Festival still means longevity, health and longevity, so the Double Ninth Festival was later established as the festival for the elderly.
When is the Double Ninth Festival? What are the customs? The ninth day of the ninth lunar month in China is an important traditional folk festival in China-the Double Ninth Festival. On this day, people will help the old and take care of the young, enjoy chrysanthemum climbing, insert dogwood (dogwood is an aromatic medicinal plant) and eat flower cakes.
The name of the Double Ninth Festival comes from the fact that the ancients regarded nine as the "yang number" and September 9 as the Double Ninth Festival, that is, the Double Ninth Festival. There is a myth about the origin of the Double Ninth Festival.
Legend has it that in the third century BC, there was a man with magical power named Fei Changfang. He can not only call the wind and rain, but also send ghosts and gods. When a young man named Huan Jing learned about it, he admired him very much and wanted to worship him as a teacher. Because the young man was very determined, Fei Changfang took him as an apprentice and taught him skills. One day, Fei Changfang said to Huan Jing, "There will be a great disaster in your home on September 9. You should be prepared in advance. " Huan Jing was very alarmed. He quickly knelt down and asked the master to teach him how to avoid disaster. Fei Changfang said, "On September 9, you should make more red cloth bags, put them in dogwood, wrap them in your arms, and bring some wine soaked in chrysanthemums for the whole family to drink on Gaopo. In this way, we can avoid catastrophe. " Huan Jing did it according to the master's method seriously. On the morning of September 9, Huan Jing took his family to the nearby Gaopo and spent a day in safety. In the evening, Huan Jing and her family went home to have a look. They were surprised. The cows, sheep, chickens and dogs at home are all dead. They really avoided a disaster. Since then, it has been practiced for more than two thousand years to attach importance to the sun, insert dogwood and drink chrysanthemum wine.
China has a widely circulated ancient poem describing the custom of the Double Ninth Festival. This poem is the famous poem "Mountain Living and Holiday Thinking of Shandong Brothers" by Wang Wei (6 18-907), a great poet in the Tang Dynasty. The whole poem reads: "Being a stranger alone in a foreign land, I miss my relatives twice every festive season. I know from a distance where my brother climbed, and there is one person missing from the dogwood. " At that time, Wang Wei, a teenager living in Beijing, was always homesick, especially on holidays. When he saw other people gathered together, he couldn't help but miss his relatives more. On the Double Ninth Festival, every household in Beijing wears dogwood, but one person wears dogwood in his own home. This is himself.
Another custom of Double Ninth Festival is to eat Double Ninth Cake. In Chinese pronunciation, cake is homophonic with "Gao", which means to rise step by step and make progress day by day. People use rice, yellow rice, jujube and other raw materials to make steamed cakes, and put five-color flags on them, which is called "flower cakes". People living in the plains have nothing to climb on the Double Ninth Festival, so they eat flower cakes to show their climbing.
In ancient times, the Double Ninth Festival was also endowed with the content of "longevity". Because people think that these customs of the Double Ninth Festival "can make people live longer".
Nowadays, people still keep the habit of climbing high and enjoying chrysanthemums on the Double Ninth Festival, and shops will also sell flower cakes on this day. Moreover, in recent years, people regard "September 9th" as a homonym of "for a long time" and call it "Festival for the Elderly", which not only contains the original connotation of the Double Ninth Festival, but also expresses people's respect and love for the elderly and wishes them a long and healthy life.
When is the Double Ninth Festival, and when is the Double Ninth Festival on 20 16? People will think of hiking, sightseeing, climbing and overlooking, enjoying chrysanthemums, planting dogwood all over, eating Chongyang cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities. 20 16 The Double Ninth Festival is on Sunday, 10.
1993 When is the Double Ninth Festival? 199365438+1Saturday, October 23rd, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the Year of the Rooster, the first frost ugly day.