The Chrysanthemum Festival is also known as the Festival of the Ninth Day, the Festival of the Sunshine Autumn, and the Treading of Autumn.

Because "nine nine" and "long long" homophonic, nine in the number is the largest number, there is a long long life meaning, so the ancients believe that the Chongyang Festival is an auspicious day to celebrate. Here we come to see how everyone is over the Chongyang Festival it.

1, eat Chongyang cake

Chongyang cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, five-color cake, is a representative food of the September 9 Chongyang Festival. As a festival food, the earliest is to celebrate the grain harvest, happy to taste the new grain. Because "high" and "cake" resonate with each other, there is the auspicious meaning of climbing high step by step, and then there is the custom of eating cake on the 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th lunar month.

The main reason for steaming cakes on the Chongyang Festival is to honor the elderly. The elderly will not suffer from back pain if they eat Chongyang cakes, so every year, they should be given Chongyang cakes to make their backs stiff and their spirits good.

2, chrysanthemum

During the Chrysanthemum Festival, a variety of chrysanthemums are in full bloom, and chrysanthemum viewing naturally becomes an important part of the festival. In addition to viewing a wide variety of chrysanthemums, chrysanthemum lanterns will be lit, wine banquets will be held, and music and drums will be played to celebrate the Chongyang Festival.

The chrysanthemum is the flower of longevity, and it is also a symbol for people to praise as a symbol of frost. The Chrysanthemum Festival is also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival, and enjoying chrysanthemums has become an important part of the Chrysanthemum Festival customs. In the ninth month of the lunar calendar, which is commonly known as the month of chrysanthemums, a chrysanthemum conference is held, and crowds of people go to the conference to enjoy chrysanthemums. Beijingers also stick chrysanthemum branches and leaves on doors and windows to "lift the evil spirits and invite good fortune".

3. Ancestor worship

The Chongyang Festival, along with New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, and Chinese New Year's Day, is known as one of the four major traditional ancestor worship festivals in China. As early as the pre-Qin period, when the crops were harvested, people had the custom of sacrificing to heaven and earth and ancestors in September to thank them for their kindness.

However, the festival of Chung Yeung Festival is for thanking the ancestors for their kindness and praying for their blessings after the crops are harvested, so the atmosphere is relaxing and joyful, and there will not be the sadness of "pedestrians wanting to break their souls".

4, wear dogwood

Anciently, there is the custom of inserting dogwood on September 9, so the Chongyang Festival is also known as the Dogwood Festival. Cornus officinalis has a strong flavor, has the effect of driving away insects and dampness, removing the wind, also has the function of eliminating the accumulation of food, treating cold and heat, can be used as medicine, can also make wine to maintain health to get rid of the disease. Folk believe that the first nine days of September is also the day of evil, disaster, so in the Chongyang Festival people like to wear cornelian cherry to ward off evil and seek good luck. Cornus officinalis is therefore also known as the "evil weng".

So in the day of the Chongyang Festival, people have to wear dogwood or climb to the far end of the dogwood custom, but also will be the dogwood as a gift to friends and relatives, in order to ward off evil spirits, good luck, prolong life.

5,Advance

On the day of the Chongyang Festival, there is a common folk custom that people should go out on this day to see the distance. In ancient times, people worshipped the mountain gods and believed that "the nine old suns, Yangji will change", so on the ninth day of the ninth month, we have to go to the mountains to climb up to the mountains to worship the mountain gods for good luck, and later gradually evolved into a recreational activity.

September in the golden autumn, the sky is high, this season can be achieved by ascending to the sky, fitness to get rid of the purpose of the disease. As for the wait until the place, there is no special provisions, generally is to climb high mountains, climb high towers.

Nowadays, China will also be the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is designated as the Day of the Elderly, advocating the whole society to establish respect for the elderly, respect for the elderly, love for the elderly, help the elderly culture. 2006, the Chongyang Festival was included in the State Council in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.