Respecting and loving the elderly is a traditional virtue, and I hope that all the elderly can have a happy and happy old age.
China's tradition of respecting and loving the elderly has a long history, and it didn't start with the Chung Yeung Festival. The Double Ninth Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena, which began in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished after the Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Li Shi of Tang Dezong, the Double Ninth Festival was officially designated as a festival. It used to be the Ascending Festival, the Birthday Prayer Festival, the Dogwood Festival, and the Ancestor Worship Festival. With the setting of the Chung Yeung Festival, the Chinese sons and daughters respect and love the elderly, and pass them on from generation to generation, forming a fine tradition.
The earliest description of the feudal emperor's respect for the old is Fan Ye's "Book of the Later Han Dynasty": In the winter of the second year of Yongping (59 years), on the fifth day of October, "Shangxing Piyong, the first pension ceremony": the old and erudite Li Gong was selected as the "three elders", and Huan Rong, who had awarded the Ming Emperor's "Shangshu", was the "five watches", and the three elders wore beautiful linen robes, wore ancient cloth crowns, and took jade doves with canes;The fifth watch also wears it like this, and does not hold a cane. Emperor Ming arrived at the Biyong Rite Palace, sat in the east chamber, set up the guard of honor, sent someone to wrap the wheels with pampas grass to prevent the old man from bumping in the car will be three old and five more to the Taixue lecture hall, Emperor Ming personally went to the door screen to support, with the guest and the host instead of the courtesy, the handover of the ceremony, from the east step to guide, the three old people climbed the guest steps, facing the east, the three dukes set up the table on the side of the seat, Jiuqing even the shoes are placed one by one. The edict of the Son of Heaven said: "Respect the three elders, and the brothers and five watches!."Then the Son of Heaven took up the dragon robe, cut it with a knife, offered the meat to the three elders instead of giving it to the three elders, and personally gave the three elders a drink, and the fifth watch was served by the three princes like this. After the ceremony is completed, guide Huan Rong and ** to board the lecture hall, and the Son of Heaven sits on the lecture hall, sits on the front of the body, and lectures on himself. It is difficult for the Confucians to ask questions. When Fan Ye wrote about this grand occasion, he was very excited: "(Emperor Ming) sat in the Ming Hall and went to the group, climbed the spiritual platform to look at the clouds, cut off the top of the Yong, and respected the three elders and the five ......Help!Beaming!Flourish in Yongping. ”
Compared with Fan Ye's description, the social festival atmosphere in the Wei and Jin dynasties gradually became stronger. Emperor Wen of Wei and Cao Pi themselves described the situation of the Double Ninth Festival. Since the Tang Dynasty, the court and the people have celebrated the Double Ninth Festival. During the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the Double Ninth Festival was more lively and unprecedented.
Wang Fuzhi made a profound analysis of these etiquettes for the elderly, and he believed that raising the elderly in Zhen (ancient local schools), killing livestock for them, serving them with sauce, and filling them with wine are all forms. Let the common people live in the countryside in peace, guide them to plant trees and raise livestock, exempt them from forced labor, so that they can live a life of food and clothing without hunger or cold, and let the people be able to support their old people at home. There are these and there are symptoms, and these standards should promote each other. He believes that the key to respecting and caring for the elderly is to "give forgiveness to every household"; in the current vernacular, the foundation of respecting and loving the old is to develop the economy, make the common people prosperous, and let them have the conditions to "serve their parents with clothes and meat." Wang Fuzhi also very much agreed with Emperor Ming to hold a special pension ceremony in Taixue, through these activities, to promote the society to form a heart of old-age care, and did not dare to abandon the old man with young strength.
To this day, Wang's analysis is still relevant. According to **, during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, China's elderly population will exceed 300 million. Respecting and loving the elderly is the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, let us respect, care for and support the elderly, so that all the elderly can have a happy old age. (Flooding).