Chongyang cake is Chongyang Festival seasonal food, just as the Lantern Festival to eat Lantern, Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cakes. Chrysanthemum cakes are made of flour steamed with dates, chestnuts or other dried fruits, with small colored flags inserted on top. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, people ate Chung Yeung cakes with great care, accompanied by a small ritual. In the early morning of the ninth day of the ninth month, the elders will be sliced into thin slices of the cake, placed on the forehead of the minor children, and blessed in the mouth: "I wish that my children are all high." This is to take "cake" and "high" homophonic, expressing people's ardent blessings to their children.

2, chrysanthemum wine

Chrysanthemum Festival is in September, autumn chrysanthemum fragrance, at this time there is the custom of drinking chrysanthemum, and this custom is because of the nine nine with the "long time" homophonic, and "wine" is also homophonic, and therefore derived from the nine nine Chrysanthemum Festival to drink! Chrysanthemum wine on the 9th day of the 9th lunar month, the meaning of which is that it can prolong life.

3, crabs

The food of the Chung Yeung Festival, and crabs. Zheng Banqiao poem: "festive into the Chung Yeung, holding the chela cut tender ginger." Is the Chung Yeung eating crab tradition of evidence. Crab is rich in protein and is called a high-quality protein food. Crab meat is more delicate, muscle fiber contains more than 10 kinds of free amino acids, of which glutamic acid, proline, arginine content is more, on the need to supplement the nutritional benefits of people. And crab fat content is very low, but high fat-soluble vitamins A, E and B vitamins, especially crab yolk is rich in vitamin A, good for eyesight and skin health.

4, mutton noodles

The Chongyang Festival to eat mutton noodles. "Sheep" and "Yang" resonance, should be the ceremony of the Chongyang. Noodles to eat white noodles, "white" is "hundred" word removed from the top of the "one", a hundred minus one for ninety-nine symbolism, in order to be "nine nine It is a symbol of "one hundred minus one" to make ninety-nine, in order to fulfill the "Nine Nine" tradition. In ancient times, the capital city gave the ninety-nine year olds a birthday called "White Life", and rich people could hold a lamb-based banquet on that day, popping, roasting, shabu-shabu and even a whole goat banquet. Autumn is the fattest season of the sheep, mutton warm, can protect against the cold. In northern Shaanxi, there are many famous snacks with buckwheat noodles and mutton as the main ingredient, such as mutton bashfulness, mutton buckwheat noodles and so on. The northern Shaanxi people over the Chongyang Festival is to enjoy buckwheat mutton in the evening.