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Legend of Chongyang Festival
According to legend, there was a plague demon living in Runan county during the Eastern Han dynasty (25-220). On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year, the demon would come out to wreak havoc, forcing the people into poverty and despair. One day, a young man named Heng Jing decided to vanquish the demon. Having gone through many hardships and difficulties, he finally found a fairy master with strong powers, and learned swordsmanship. After he returned to his hometown, he gave each of the villagers a sprig of dogwood and a cup of chrysanthemum wine, as the fairy had told him, to drive away the demon and then he killed it. From then on, the custom of wearing dogwood sprigs and drinking chrysanthemum wine during the Chongyang Festival has been passed down.
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