2, Chrysanthemum Festival to eat cakes another symbol is to honor the old, Jiangnan popular saying: "Chrysanthemum do not eat cake, the old with people told.
Eating cake is derived from the Chung Yeung Festival, Chung Yeung Festival is also known as the "Festival of the heights". In addition to eating the cake, the festival also has the custom of climbing high, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine and inserting dogwoods. Climbing high is generally climbed high mountains and towers; Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, Chrysanthemum Appreciation was prevalent at that time, there were many varieties of chrysanthemums in a variety of shapes and colors, and the folk also referred to the ninth month of the lunar calendar as the "Chrysanthemum Month", and chrysanthemums bloomed proudly at the Chrysanthemum Festival, and chrysanthemum appreciation has become an important element of the festival. In addition to these common customs, depending on the region, each region also has its own unique Chrysanthemum Festival customs, Fujian Putian will be made on this day of delicious Qingming fruit, there are also areas of people will take advantage of the Chrysanthemum hiking opportunity to visit ancestral tombs to commemorate the ancestors.