Things to do on the Chongyang Festival are: offer sacrifices to ancestors, climb up to the top of the mountain, eat Chongyang cake, eat crabs, drink chrysanthemum wine.

1, ancestor worship:

The Chongyang Festival and New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, July 30th are all traditional Chinese ancestor festivals, ancestor worship is a major theme of the main festivals to do the festival. Ancient China belongs to the farming society, agricultural civilization, is extremely important to the experience of ancestors of a civilization form. The Chinese people since ancient times, respect for ancestors, the concept of rituals and customs of prudence, with the custom of sacrificing to the ancestors on New Year's Day, to show filial piety and respect, not forgetting the root.

2, climbing:

Ancient folk in the Chongyang Festival has the custom of climbing, so the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Festival of heights". Chrysanthemum climbing custom originated at this time the climate characteristics and the ancient worship of mountains. Chongyang Festival "ascend" custom and Taoism September 9 "ascension to immortality" also has an intrinsic connection, in Taoist culture, the early September 9 Chongyang Festival this day is "ascension to immortality" the best time! In Taoist culture, Chongyang Festival on September 9 is the best time to "ascend to heaven and become immortal", which is why many Taoist legends choose September 9 to "ascend to heaven and become immortal". Taoists believe that the day of the Qing Qi up, the higher the terrain, the more Qing Qi gathered, you can ride the Qing Qi and ascend to heaven.

3, eat Chung Yeung cake:

The Chung Yeung Festival eat Chung Yeung cake originated from the Chung Yeung ascension custom, which is also known as flower cake, is made of glutinous rice flour and japonica rice flour made of a kind of gourmet food, but also is the best gift for elders. Because "cake" and "high" sound the same, so the folk to eat cake instead of climbing high, but also "step by step" meaning in it.

4, eat crabs:

Chrysanthemum eating crabs is also one of the customary activities, the old poem has a cloud: festival into the sun, holding chelang cut tender ginger. Indicates the Chung Yeung Festival is the time when a large number of crabs on the market, crab fat golden yellow, and the flavor is more delicious, so slowly passed down.

5, drink chrysanthemum wine:

The Chrysanthemum Festival is just the time when chrysanthemums are in full bloom, under the hedge in front of the window, a piece of gold, the use of chrysanthemums and glutinous rice made of chrysanthemum wine, also known as "longevity wine". Due to the nine nine and nine nine and "long time" is a harmonic, and wine is also homophonic, so chrysanthemum wine in ancient times was seen as a good-luck wine to get rid of disasters and pray for blessings, friends and family to drink wine, *** enjoy chrysanthemum, but also has a different flavor.