The customary activities of Chongyang Festival include ascending to a high altitude, eating Chongyang cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine, inserting cornelian cherry, eating cake and noodles, etc.
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1, climbing: folk in the Chongyang custom of climbing, so the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Festival of heights".
2, eat Chung Yeung cake: a piece of cake on the forehead of the children, the mouth recited the words, wishing their children all things high.
3, drink chrysanthemum wine: Chongyang Festival is the golden autumn of the year, chrysanthemums in full bloom, according to legend, chrysanthemum and chrysanthemum wine, originated in the Jin Dynasty great poet Tao Yuanming.
4, insert cornelian cherry: the ancients believed that in the Chongyang Festival on this day insert cornelian cherry can take refuge from disasters; or wear in the arm, or as a bag of incense to put the cornelian cherry inside the belt, as well as inserted in the head.
5, eating cakes and noodles: Southeast Jin and Wutai County and other places, it is customary to eat longevity noodles. Jinnan region has a "September 9, the family has" folk proverb, meaning that this day, every family has to improve their lives.