1, to ward off evil
In the Chongyang Festival, is to ward off evil, the ancients believe that the day of the Chongyang, the weather is falling, the earth's gas rising, people in order to avoid contact with the evil, so in the Chongyang Festival to ward off the evil, in addition, the Chongyang Festival is the harvest season, this time high and refreshing fall, the outing to climb the heights of the itself is also very suitable.
2, pray for blessings
According to the "Rituals - Sacrifice Law" records: "mountains, forests, valleys and hills, can be out of the clouds, for the wind and rain, see monsters, are said to be God." This sentence, reflecting the hard living environment of the ancients, because early mankind in order to survive the need to collect fruits, hunting beasts, growing in the mountains of plants, activities in the mountains of animals, is a vital source of food, so the ancients of the mountains themselves to retain a share of the worship, choose to ascend the heights of the day of the Chung Yeung, has also become a kind of people's prayers for good luck behavior.