Customs of the Chongyang Festival include: climbing high, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine, inserting cornelian cherry, honoring the elderly, and eating Chongyang cake.

1, insert cornelian cherry

Anciently, there is the custom of inserting cornelian cherry on September 9, so the Chrysanthemum Festival is also called Cornucopia Festival. Cornus officinalis has a strong flavor, has the effect of driving away worms 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 nourish the health of the disease. So in the day of the Chongyang Festival, people have to wear dogwood or climb to the far end of the custom of inserting dogwood, but also dogwood as a gift to friends and relatives, in order to ward off evil spirits and seek good luck, prolong life.

2, drink chrysanthemum wine

Appreciate chrysanthemums and drink chrysanthemum wine, in the cold wind of late autumn, only chrysanthemums fight for beauty, so that the autumn more angry, more colorful. According to legend, chrysanthemum appreciation and drinking chrysanthemum wine originated in Tao Yuanming, a great poet of the Jin Dynasty. Tao Yuanming was famous for his seclusion, poetry, wine and chrysanthemums; later generations followed his example, and the custom of chrysanthemum-appreciation on Chrysanthemum Day came into being.

3, the long-distance view

On the day of the Chongyang Festival, there is a common folk custom, that is, people want to go out on this day to see the long-distance view. Chongyang Festival, most of the busy fall harvest has ended, this time the people are relatively free, the mountains of wild fruits, herbs and is the ripe season, so people will go to the mountains to collect wild fruits, herbs, etc., and then gradually focus on the activities to the Chongyang this day, evolved into the custom of the Chongyang Festival to climb far and wide.

4, eat Chung Yeung cake

Chong Yeung cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, five-color cake, is a representative of the September 9 Chung Yeung Festival food. As a festival food, the earliest is to celebrate the grain harvest, happy to taste the new grain. Because of the "high" and "cake" resonance, there are step by step to reach a high auspicious meaning, and later came to the Chongyang Festival, the custom of eating cake.

5, respect for the elderly

JiuJiu Chongyang Festival, today has become a symbol of longevity of the elderly festival. It is customary to comfort the elderly on this day. The old people like to walk outside the door, exercise exercise exercise. Physically strong people have to climb the nearby high places, far away from the eyes of the Shu, in order to strengthen the twilight Zhi.