1. Climb up to the top of the mountain and enjoy the sparkling colors of autumn.
After the Chrysanthemum Festival, it gradually enters the late fall, and the weather becomes gradually cold. Crops return to the barn, the earth is pale, the leaves of plants began to turn golden, grass color becomes less and less, it is time to accompany us for most of the green grass to say goodbye. Therefore, there is a saying of "leaving the green".
Hiking in late fall is one of the most important activities of the Chongyang Festival. Standing on a high place, looking out over the Liangzhu land, watching the clouds roll in and out, the trees wither and grow year after year, and feeling the coolness of the fall. Whether it is a high mountain, a high building or a high platform, you can climb up to pray for blessings, look away and enjoy the fall.
2, chrysanthemum drinking
Chrysanthemum frost unyielding, is regarded as the flower of longevity, so the Chrysanthemum Festival has always been the custom of flower viewing. In the fourth year of Emperor Shenzong's reign, Su Shi and Xu Junyou climbed up to appreciate chrysanthemums and drank wine, composing the following poem: "It's hard to meet people in the world who can open their mouths and smile when they are young, and the chrysanthemums have to be inserted all over their heads to return to the world."
"Drinking chrysanthemum wine on the 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th month of the 9th year of the Lunar New Year, people *** chrysanthemum drunk on the 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th year of the 9th year of the Lunar New Year", chrysanthemum wine is regarded as the "auspicious wine" that must be drunk on the 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th year of the Lunar New Year to drive away calamities and pray for blessings. Han Dynasty Liu Xin's "Xijing Miscellany" has records, "chrysanthemum Shu, and pick stems and leaves, mixed millet for brewing, to the next year on September 9 began to cook, on drink, so called chrysanthemum wine."
3, eat Chongyang cake
Chinese people pay attention to the Chongyang Festival to honor the elderly, climb to avoid disaster. The "cake" and "high" sound the same, have the meaning of step by step, so the cake is one of the most important food on the day of the Chongyang Festival.
The northern Chrysanthemum Cake is usually steamed cake with flour and flowers and fruits, also known as hair cake. It is a kind of dough cake made of fermented flour, adding various kinds of flowers and fruits, such as jujubes, nuts, candied fruit, red silk, green silk, etc. and then steamed, which is fluffy, sweet and glutinous.
Additionally, the folk ballad "Mid-Autumn Festival has just passed, and for the Chung Yeung busy, Qiaoqiao Hua Hua cake, only for the female want to mother," meaning that in the Chung Yeung Festival, married daughters to return to her mother's home to send Chung Yeung cake, a custom that is still being passed down in some places.
4, dogwood
Per dogwood - hairpin chrysanthemums, Chrysanthemum Festival has the custom of dogwood, so it is also known as "dogwood festival". Cornus officinalis is an important symbol of the Chongyang Festival. People also like to wear chrysanthemums during the festival. Cornus corniculatus is also known as the "Evil Weng", and chrysanthemum is also known as the "longevity guest".
Cornelian cherry, the ancients believed that in the day of the Chongyang Festival hiking insert cornelian cherry can drive away insects and dampness, the wind. So they wore the cornelian cherry on their arms or ground it up and put it in a bag of incense, as well as sticking it on their heads.
Wang Wei's "I know where my brothers are climbing, and I know that there are fewer dogwoods to be found." Festival and Chung Yeung, distant relatives climbed high, refreshing, full of cornelian cherry, pious wishes and prayers, only to find that there is one less person, and this person is Wang Wei himself. At this moment, the cornelian cherry not only symbolizes the warding off of evil spirits, but also sends the traveler to the hometown of the thoughts.