1, Korea: In ancient Korea, Chongyang was called the Double Ninth Festival. Since the Silla era, there has been a custom of going upstairs to recite poems on this day. In Korea, the banquet on the ninth day of September has even become a national custom. Custom activities mainly include eating fried flowers, cauliflower, playing fried games and flying kites.
2. Japan: The Double Ninth Festival in Japan was introduced from China in peacetime. Princes and nobles of the Ping 'an Dynasty held a chrysanthemum feast in the palace on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. Japanese people also put cotton cloth on chrysanthemums the night before the Double Ninth Festival, and wipe their bodies after being wet by dew on the Double Ninth Festival to pray for longevity. Custom activities mainly include eating eggplant and eating chestnut rice to sacrifice chrysanthemums.
3. USA: San Francisco is a city where Chinese live in compact communities. During the Double Ninth Festival, flower shops will sell all kinds of chrysanthemums, and some pastry shops will also sell double ninth cakes. Many China organizations hold banquets to respect the elderly, and some service centers for the elderly also have many volunteers to visit and help the elderly.
Celebrate the Double Ninth Festival in China.
On September 9, in Xianghe County, Hebei Province, families with in-laws will give gifts to each other, which is called "chasing festivals". The weather in Chongyang, Yongping Prefecture will be sunny in the future. If it rains on the Double Ninth Festival, it will rain these days. Children in qingfeng county play with paper kites on the Double Ninth Festival. There are no mountains in Zhou Dian County, and there are more people climbing the stairs in the county than in the Double Ninth Festival.
People in northern Changba, Shandong Province eat spicy radish soup on the Double Ninth Festival. There is a proverb: "It is not bitter for the whole family to drink radish soup." Juancheng people call the Double Ninth Festival the birthday of the God of Wealth, and every household bakes cakes to offer sacrifices to the God of Wealth.
Zou Ping offered a sacrifice to Fan Zhongyan in Chongyang. In the old days, dyehouses and restaurants also offered sacrifices to the gods on September 9th. Tengxian's daughter, who has been married for less than three years, avoids going back to her family for the holidays. There is a saying that "if you go home to Chongyang, you will kill your mother-in-law."
On the Double Ninth Festival in Xixiang County, Shaanxi Province, relatives and friends presented chrysanthemums and chrysanthemum cakes. Literati appreciate poetry and wine. It is said that on this day, women can learn from the mouth of Cornus officinalis and cure their distress.