Hu Liping
The Chongyang Festival in September and Ninth. Since ancient times, people have advocated respecting the old and respecting the elderly, from the emperor to the common people, and they all uphold the tradition of respecting and respecting the elderly.
The emperors of the Qing Dynasty also set an example and advocated filial piety, and there were many sayings about respecting the old in the Three Mountains and Five Gardens.
Changchun Garden
Kangxi built "Jiuhua Pagoda" for grandmother birthday
Chrysanthemums are known as "Shou Ke" and "Longevity Flower". They are regarded as auspicious flowers. Because they bloom in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, they are also called "Nine Flowers" or "Nine Flowers".
During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, the "Chrysanthemum Pagoda", also known as the "Jiuhua Pagoda", was built in Changchun Garden during the Double Ninth Festival every year to show his respect for his grandmother, the Empress Dowager.
The emperor Kangxi lost his parents in childhood and relied on his grandmother Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang to raise him up.
He succeeded to the throne at the age of eight, and his grandmother gave him a seniority, so he did his best to respect his grandmother. After taking office, he ordered people to plant chrysanthemums in the courtyard every midsummer. When he came to Chongyang, he personally used 1,000 pots of chrysanthemums. A chrysanthemum tower was built in front of Chunhui Hall in Changchunyuan, where Empress Xiaozhuang lived, to express filial piety, because Empress Xiaozhuang especially liked chrysanthemums.
Building the Chrysanthemum Pagoda is a folk custom of Chongyang in old Beijing. The Qing Dynasty "Yenjing Chrysanthemum" records: "Nine flowers, chrysanthemums are also. Every Chongyang Festival, the rich and honorable family will have nine flowers and hundreds of pots, set in the middle of the Guangsha Xuanhouzhi is like a mountain, and it is called Jiuhuashanzi, and those piled on all sides are called Jiuhua Pagoda." Most of the folks used 9 precious varieties of chrysanthemums, a total of 999 pots of chrysanthemums to build 9 floors, while the Emperor Kangxi used 1,000 pots of chrysanthemums to build. The tower means "Long live the future", wishing the elderly a long life.
After the chrysanthemums withered, Kangxi asked the court ladies to pick the petals and dry them under the eaves of the palace.
Because he learned from the imperial physician that using chrysanthemum as a pillow can nourish yin and clear away heat, and has curative effects on red eyes, swelling, pain, and blurred vision.
The old lady is very old, and she has dizziness and dizziness from time to time. So every year, she sews a chrysanthemum pillow for her, which can be used for one year and then sew again in the coming year, which is quite effective.
After the death of Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, Kangxi continued to build a chrysanthemum tower in front of Chunhui Hall where his grandmother lived in the golden autumn season, and burned incense before the case until he died at the age of 69.
Jingyi Garden
After Qianlong was entrusted with his mother, climbed up to watch the red leaves
In the golden autumn season, Fragrant Mountain is not only famous for its red leaves, but also a good place for climbing on the Double Ninth Festival.
"Autumn Autumn Forest", one of the "Twenty-Eight Scenes of Jingyi Garden", is located on the east side of Yuxiang Pavilion. When the frost is thick in autumn, the red, yellow, and verdant colors are colorful, hence the name, Emperor Qianlong has been here many times. Watch the red leaves.
Since Emperor Qianlong inherited the throne from the age of 25, he has always been filial to his mother, the Empress Dowager Chongqing. Because the empress likes to travel and watch the four o'clock scenery, he often worships his mother to go out of the palace to watch the scenery.
In the eleventh year of Qianlong (1746), in late autumn, Emperor Qianlong went to Xiangshan to watch the red leaves.
The more he looked at it, the more he felt that this year's red leaves were different from previous years, so he invited his mother to watch it.
He first served his mother and then climbed the heights in Yuhuaxiu, and accompanied him to the colorful autumn forest to admire the colorful leaves. Then he wrote the poem "Changing the Empress Dowager Fragrant Mountain on the Double Ninth Day": "The famous mountain first tried the chrysanthemum banquet. . Fulian doesn’t know the frost, and the hoop is just like a night pearl. Danqing wins the bird's title and green, and the deer in the purple pile is called smoke. The wise man is happy and benevolent, and he will live forever, and he will inherit the year of Wansi." From the poem You can experience the love of Emperor Qianlong after serving his mother ascending to admire the autumn and enjoying the fun of Zhiren's landscape.
Emperor Qianlong celebrated his mother’s seventieth and eighty-year birthdays, and held grand birthday celebrations in Xiangshan in the autumn of the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong (1761) and the thirty-sixth year of Qianlong (1771). , Namely elected princes over 70 years old and 9 civil servants, 9 military officials over 70 years old, 9 military officials over 70 years old, 9 people over 70 years old who have retired from official duties, a total of 27 people, each in a class, collectively called "three classes of nine old men" , Collectively referred to as a meeting.
It was golden autumn when the Xiangshan Mountain was full of red leaves. Emperor Qianlong presented two exquisite red leaves to each old man in the name of his mother.
This special gift was personally selected by him in Xiangshan during the Frost and Red Leaves of the previous year. After air-drying, flattening and wax sealing, it was placed in a bright yellow beautiful brocade box and tied with yellow damask. The words "Fu Shou Kang Ning" are printed on the box.
Old Summer Palace
Daoguang appeared on stage to sing for the Queen Mother
Emperor Daoguang’s biological mother was Empress Xiao Shurui, Xi Tala, who died of illness in the second year of Jiaqing (1797).
Under the decree of the Supreme Emperor Qianlong, the imperial concubine Niu Hulu was the queen, namely the queen of filial piety and the queen of Rui.
After the death of Jiaqing, Empress Xiao and Rui passed the decree to let Minning, the second son of Renzong, ascend to the throne, namely Emperor Daoguang.
At that time Empress Xiao and Rui had two biological sons, the third and fourth sons of Emperor Jiaqing.
For this reason, Daoguang was grateful to his stepmother, respected in every possible way, and served the Queen Mother for decades.
He knows that his stepmother likes to watch theaters, so every Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Empress Dowager’s birthday, he will sing for the queen mother in the palace and serve her.
One year during the Double Ninth Festival, she performed "Jiuhua Pingju", "Zhongmei Feixia", "Climbing the Heights" and "Helin Fairy Trail" for the Empress Dowager in Fuchuntang in Yuanmingyuan. Click it again, and the queen mother clicked "Eight Immortals on Longevity".
Emperor Daoguang once acted in this play, so he proposed: "Please give me the queen mother to sing this play!" The queen mother said: "You are the king of a country. It is wrong to act on stage." Daoguang said, "Jinnai." On the Double Ninth Day, you should be honoring your mother and make your old people happy." Then he went to the backstage to make up.
Not long after, the sound of gongs and drums reappeared, and Emperor Daoguang dressed as Magu and brought the golden boy and jade girl onto the stage.
His every move is all the same, the old lady is very happy, and the civil and military ministers who watched in the audience also hailed.
On the tenth day of October in the twenty-fifth year of Daoguang (1845), the Queen Mother celebrated her 70th birthday. Emperor Daoguang celebrated her mother's birthday in Fuchuntang and staged "Happy Harmony".
Emperor Daoguang, who was over 60 years old, took the stage personally and performed "Mu Gong Jinmu Leads the Fairy Children to Present Prosperity and Gifts" and sang the birthday song with all the fairies: "Shouzhao the immortals come, and the birthday wishes are high. Longevity fragrant, longevity candles burn together. Shoushan longevity is far away, and longevity is never old." The empress dowager was so touched that tears fell, saying that the emperor’s filial piety is really rare.
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