1. Climb high and look far away. The Double Ninth Festival is also called the Climbing Festival. It can be seen that the activity of climbing high and overlooking the distance is a must-do activity during the Double Ninth Festival. In other words, if you climb the mountain and look out at the distant scenery on this day, it will be considered as the Double Ninth Festival. People living in the city should take this opportunity to go out for mountain climbing. Firstly, they can exercise their bodies and nourish their emotions with the scenery, and secondly, they can celebrate a true Double Ninth Festival.

2. Wear dogwood. Cornus officinalis is slightly poisonous and has insecticide effect. Wearing dogwood on the Double Ninth Festival has similar functions to wearing calamus on the Dragon Boat Festival, both of which are to eliminate insects and prevent moths. The period after the Double Ninth Festival is called: Xiaoyangchun in October. Xiaoyangchun means that the weather has warmed up after the Double Ninth Festival. Before the Double Ninth Festival, there is a lot of rainfall and the hot autumn weather has not gone away. Clothes are prone to mildew, and wearing dogwood can prevent insects.

3. Appreciate chrysanthemums. The ninth month of the lunar calendar is the season when chrysanthemums bloom, so the ninth month of the lunar calendar is also called the chrysanthemum month. In traditional Chinese culture, the chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity, which coincides with the Double Ninth Festival’s belief in respecting the elderly and internal communication. Moreover, the Double Ninth Festival has always had the custom of appreciating chrysanthemums. Every year, major provincial capitals have large and small chrysanthemum exhibitions during the Double Ninth Festival. During the Jin Dynasty, the Double Ninth Festival also had the custom of gathering, drinking, appreciating chrysanthemums and composing poems.

4. Drink chrysanthemum wine. During the Double Ninth Festival, chrysanthemums bloom, and the ingenious Chinese add sour chrysanthemums to wine to make delicious chrysanthemum wine. Chrysanthemums taste bitter, sweet, and have a mild nature. Returns to the lung and liver meridians. Drinking chrysanthemum wine has the effects of dispersing wind and clearing away heat, calming the liver and improving eyesight, clearing away heat and detoxifying.