Parenting] The 9th day of the 9th lunar month

The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar is known as the "Chung Yeung", also known as the "9th day of the 9th moon". The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar is the "Chrysanthemum Festival", also known as the "Chrysanthemum Festival". The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar is also known as the "Chrysanthemum Festival". The ninth day of the ninth month of the Chinese lunar calendar is also known as the "Chrysanthemum Festival". It can be seen that the festival was celebrated in the Western Han Dynasty.

After more than 2,000 years of change, the Chung Yeung Festival has become a multi-faceted festival with a variety of customs and traditions, making it a colorful and varied festival. In 1963, the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of China (Taiwan) authorized the Chung Yeung Festival as the "Festival for the Elderly" to honor the elderly and filial piety, which added to the connotation of the festival.

There were many special customs for the Chung Yeung Festival, such as eating Chung Yeung cakes, which harmonize with cakes and have the auspicious meaning of "everything is high". Nowadays, this custom is rare, but the following customs are more common.

(I) Ancestor Worship The immigrants of Zhangzhou nationality offer sacrifices and sweet libations to their ancestors on the Chung Yeung Festival.

(2) Drinking Chrysanthemum Wine Drinking Chrysanthemum Wine, which is in harmony with the 9-9-9, can prolong one's life and make one live "longer".

（Chrysanthemum Appreciation Chrysanthemums are in full bloom during the Chrysanthemum Festival, so appreciating chrysanthemums at the Chrysanthemum Festival has become an important activity for the literati, and it is not uncommon for people to compose poems on the occasion of appreciating chrysanthemums.

(D) Mountaineering (high) to climb high picnics, this custom since the Han Dynasty until now, in the Han Dynasty, in addition to climbing high picnics, and increase the wild feast. In the Han Dynasty, in addition to climbing the heights of the countryside, a wild feast was added. Later, people took the opportunity to climb the heights of the mountains and swept the graves of their ancestors, which increased the spirit of filial piety of the Chongyang Festival in the spirit of honoring one's ancestors after the end of life.

(E) Wearing Cornus Cornus Cornus is a Chinese herb that is used to remove diseases and kill insects, and is regarded as "warding off evil spirits" by the general public.

(6) Kite Racing In the past, young people used to compete in kite-flying on September 9, when it is autumn and the weather is high and fresh, as the saying goes, "On September 9, the wind blows (kites) all over the sky. This is the scene of the heavy sun flying in the sky. Nowadays, kite-flying is practiced at the Founding Father's Memorial Hall and along the Muzha River embankment, adding to the festive atmosphere.

(VII) Visiting the Elderly

Chinese society is a society that respects the elderly and honors the virtuous. In recent years, the status of the elderly has been declining, but the contribution of the elderly to the family, society and the country in the past is indelible, and without their efforts in the past, there would not be the prosperity of today's society, so respecting the elderly is in fact only a kind of spiritual reward for the elderly for their hard work in the past. The 9th day of the 9th lunar month, in the sense of longevity, is set as the Day of the Elderly or the Day of Respect for the Elderly, when the Mayor of Taipei City visits the people in the city and organizes a meeting of respect for the elderly, and the elderly accept the condolences and gifts from the head of the city, so that the elderly can have a happy holiday to carry forward the virtue of respect for the elderly.