Why can’t we go back to our parents’ home on Double Ninth Festival? What is the Double Ninth Festival also called?

Why can’t we go back to our parents’ home on Double Ninth Festival? What is the Double Ninth Festival also called?
There are many folk activities and festival taboos in China's traditional festivals. For example, the Ghost Festival should be the festival with the most taboos. The Double Ninth Festival comes in September. Why can’t we go back to our parents’ home on it? What is the Double Ninth Festival also called? The beginning of the ninth month of the lunar calendar is the National Day of our motherland. Let’s run along with the five-star red flag and the national anthem! Shuimoxiansheng.com will help you understand the auspicious and inauspicious days in September of the lunar calendar in 2019. ,

Why can’t we go back to our parents’ home on Double Ninth Festival?

——Because in some places, there is a folk saying: "If you go home to celebrate Double Ninth Festival, your mother-in-law will die." In the Teng County area, daughters can come back home, but married girls within three years cannot return to their parents' home, especially on this day. Three years later, you can go back to your parents' home on the Double Ninth Festival every year, but you cannot go back on this day within the next three years. This is just a local custom.
——The Double Ninth Festival is the Daughters' Day. According to the rules of the past, for example, in "A Brief Account of Scenery in the Imperial Capital", it is written according to the rules of this book, "(On September 9), parents must welcome their daughters to come and eat flower cakes. If they are not allowed to welcome them, the mother will scold them, the daughter will complain, the younger sister will cry and look at her elder sister and aunt, and it is also called the Daughters' Day." There is a Daughters' Day in various places in Shandong. For example, in Jinan, in the area east of Jinan, in the Jiaodong Peninsula area, flower cakes are given to Daughters' Day on the Double Ninth Festival.

Can’t I go back to my parents’ home during the Double Ninth Festival?
——It depends on the region. In some places it is taboo to go back to one’s parents’ home on Double Ninth Festival, while in other places there is no such taboo. But sometimes there is no way to adapt to local customs. If there is no such taboo, you can go back to your parents' home, help the elderly with work, and show your filial piety. The Double Ninth Festival is the Elderly Day. Going back to your parents’ home can provide comfort to your elderly parents. However, the custom in some places is that you cannot go back to your parents' home on Double Ninth Festival. On the Double Ninth Festival, it is taboo for a daughter who has been married for less than three years to return to her parents' home, otherwise it will bring disaster to her mother-in-law. It is said: If she goes home to celebrate Double Ninth Festival, her mother-in-law will die.

What is the Double Ninth Festival also called?

The Double Ninth Festival is also known as: Double Ninth Festival, Autumn Sunning Festival, Autumn Stepping Festival, Chrysanthemum Festival, Dogwood Festival, Senior Citizens' Day, Climbing Festival, Respect for the Aged Festival, Daughters' Day and many other names.
Double Ninth Festival Poems:
——"Written on the Ninth Day" (Tang Dynasty) Wang Jin Don't compare the border areas with the capital, the severe frost in August has already withered the grass. Today I am on a high mountain and drinking wine, I wonder if there are any chrysanthemums in my cup.
——"The Ninth Day" (Tang Dynasty) Yang Heng Yellow flowers and purple chrysanthemums are beside the fence. I pick chrysanthemums and drink wine to enjoy their new fragrance. I can’t bear the homesickness today, so I force myself to wear a dogwood branch and follow the crowd.
Double Ninth Festival Information:
Origin of the festival: worship of celestial phenomena, harvest sacrifices, etc. Festival activities: mountain climbing and autumn outings, banquets to honor the elderly, chrysanthemum appreciation, farewell to youth, etc. Festival food: Chongyang cake, chrysanthemum wine, etc.
Festival significance: Respecting the elderly and giving thanks, feasting and praying for longevity, climbing and keeping fit Setting time: Ancient times Meaning: The beginning of a new era, longevity National cultural heritage: National intangible cultural heritage list

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