Frost Festival there are customs such as climbing high and far away, enjoying chrysanthemums, eating red persimmons, eating ducks, and sweeping tombs to pay homage to ancestors.

1, climb high and far?

The air is fresh in the mountains and forests and high mountains in the fall, and there is less floating dust and pollutants in the atmosphere. Frost season to climb high and far away, not only can make the function of the lungs to get Shuyi, while climbing to the high place to look into the distance, relaxed and happy, but also can be soothing the mood.

2, chrysanthemum?

In meteorology, the first frost in fall is called "early frost" or "chrysanthemum frost", because chrysanthemums are in full bloom at this time, and it is a good time to enjoy chrysanthemums. There is an old saying that "chrysanthemums bloom when the frost hits them", so climbing high mountains and enjoying chrysanthemums have become the elegant thing to do in this season of frost.

3, eat persimmons?

In some parts of China, the frost season to eat red persimmons, in the view of the local people, so that not only can be cold and warm, but also fill the sinews. The old people of Quanzhou say about eating persimmons at the time of frost: if you eat diced persimmons at the time of frost, you won't have a runny nose. In some places, the explanation for this custom is: you have to eat persimmons on the day of frost, or else your lips will be cracked all winter long.

4, eat duck?

In southern Fujian and Taiwan, the day of the frost to eat tonic, which is often referred to in the north as "autumn fat". There is a proverb in southern Fujian, called "a year to make up through, not as good as make up the frost", fully expresses the importance of the folk of Fujian and Taiwan on the frost this festival. Every frost season, the duck in Fujian and Taiwan will be sold very hot.

5. Sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors?

"Qing Tongli" cloud: "years, cold food and frost festival, worship sweeping Xieng Khouang tombs, the period plain clothes at the tomb, with wine and food and scythes cut the grass and trees of the apparatus, week calloused sealed trees, cut the thorn grass, so called sweeping the tomb." And passed on to this day.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Frostfall