2. On the Double Ninth Festival, China has the traditional custom of drinking Huanghua wine. In ancient times, Huanghua wine was regarded as a "auspicious wine" that Chongyang must drink to dispel disasters and pray for blessings.
3. Huanghua wine was already available in the Han Dynasty. In the Wei Dynasty, Cao Pi once presented chrysanthemums to Zhong You in Chongyang, wishing him a long life. In Bao Pu Zi, Ge Hong of Jin Dynasty recorded that people in Nanyang Mountain lived longer because they drank the sweet valley water full of yellow flowers. In Jian Wendi Liang's "Picking Chrysanthemums", there is a saying that "picking chrysanthemums and pearls in the basket is mutually appealing, and the dew is wet in the morning", and it is also a move of picking chrysanthemums to make wine. Until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Huanghua wine was still popular, and it was still recorded in Gao Lian's Eight Notes on Zunsheng in the Ming Dynasty. It was a popular fitness drink.
4. "Huanghua wine" is the wine brewed with Huanghua. According to "Miscellanies of Xijing", "Huanghua is comfortable, and stems and leaves are collected, and miscellaneous millet is brewed. When it is cooked on September 9 next year, it will be drunk, so it is called chrysanthemum wine." In ancient times, in the first year of the Double Ninth Festival, wine was specially made for the second year of the Double Ninth Festival. On September 9 th, the newly-bloomed yellow flowers and a little green branches and leaves were picked and mixed with the grain for brewing, and they were drunk until the second year of Chongyang. The ancients thought that this wine could "cure all diseases and make people live longer".
5. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the folk custom of drinking Huanghua wine was still very popular, and a variety of Chinese herbal medicines were added to the wine, which made the fitness effect better. Decoct the juice with Ganhuanghua, make wine with koji rice, and some Chinese herbal medicines such as Rehmannia glutinosa, Angelica sinensis and Lycium barbarum are added.