Activities that can be organized by elementary school students on the Chongyang Festival:

1. Making greeting cards for the Chongyang Festival:Primary school students are organized to make greeting cards to send blessings to their grandparents or the elderly in the community. The cards can be filled with blessings or drawings expressing gratitude and respect.

2. Drawing on the theme of the Chung Yeung Festival: Encourage primary school students to create drawings about the Chung Yeung Festival, for example, depicting the traditional activities of the festival, such as climbing up to high altitude, enjoying chrysanthemums, eating Chung Yeung cakes, etc.

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3. Organize visits to homes for the elderly:Contact local homes for the elderly or welfare institutions and organize primary school students to visit the elderly there, perform for them, chat with them, or help them do what they can.

4. Learning about the traditional customs of the Chongyang Festival: Through explanations and demonstrations, elementary school students can learn about and experience the traditional customs of the Chongyang Festival, such as Pelaying, drinking chrysanthemum wine and so on.

5. Organize climbing activities: If conditions permit, you can organize the elementary school students to go to the countryside for climbing activities to experience the traditional customs.

6. Sharing stories about the festival:Teachers or parents are invited to share stories and traditions about the festival so that elementary school students can understand the background and meaning of the festival.

7. Make a handbill on Chongyang Festival: Encourage primary school students to make a handbill on Chongyang Festival customs, stories, or their own understanding and feelings about respecting the elderly.

The above activities can let elementary school students understand and experience the traditional culture of the Chongyang Festival in a happy way, and at the same time cultivate their sense of respect for the elderly and love for the elderly.

The origin of Chrysanthemum Festival:

Chrysanthemum Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year. "Nine" number in the "I Ching" for the number of Yang, "nine nine" two Yang heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; because the sun and the moon are nine, so it is also known as "heavy nine The sun and the moon coincide with nine, so it is also called "Chongjiu". Nine nine to the true, the beginning of a yuan, the ancients believe that the nine nine sun is an auspicious day.

Ancient folk in the Chung Yeung Festival have climbed high to pray for blessings, worship God and ancestor worship and feasts to pray for life and other customs. Since then, it has added the connotation of honoring the elderly. The two important themes of today's Chrysanthemum Festival activities are to climb up and enjoy the fall and to give thanks to the elderly.

The Chrysanthemum Festival originated from the worship of heavenly signs, began in ancient times, popularized in the Western Han Dynasty, and flourished after the Tang Dynasty. According to the existing historical materials and evidence, in the ancient times, there were in the seasonal fall harvest activities held in the sky, ancestor worship.

Ancient people in September when the crop harvest sacrifices to the emperor of heaven, ancestor worship, in order to thank the emperor of heaven, ancestor beneficence of the activities, which is the Chung Yeung Festival as an autumn harvest ritual activities and the existence of the original form. The Tang Dynasty was an important period in which traditional festival customs were kneaded and finalized, and the main part of them has been passed down to the present day.