Changyang Festival handbook text writing as follows:
1. Chongyang Festival, is a traditional Chinese folk festival, the date of the first nine days of September in the lunar calendar every year. "Nine" number in the "I Ching" for the number of Yang, "nine nine" two Yang heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; because the sun and the moon are nine, so it is also known as "heavy nine The sun and the moon coincide with nine, so it is also called "Chongjiu". Nine nine to the true, the beginning of the first yuan, the ancients believe that the nine nine suns is an auspicious day.
2. In ancient times, the folk in the Chongyang Festival have climbed high to pray for blessings, worship and ancestor worship and drink feasts to pray for life and other customs. Inherited to this day, and added the connotation of respect for the elderly. Climbing up to enjoy the autumn and thanksgiving and respect for the elderly are two important themes of today's Chrysanthemum Festival activities.
3. The Chrysanthemum Festival is the best time to enjoy autumn, and some mountain villages in southern China have retained the characteristics of "sunshine autumn". Go to the countryside to enjoy folklore, see the sunshine autumn, has become a fashion of rural tourism. The "sunshine autumn" is a typical agricultural phenomenon, with strong regional characteristics.
4. The release of paper kites is one of the main customs in the South over the Chongyang Festival. Folk over the Chongyang Festival is to fly paper kites (kites) as the main feature. Guangxu "Huizhou Prefecture Zhi" also recorded. In the folk tradition, the Chongyang Festival is also characterized by flying paper kites in addition to ascending the heights.
5. The custom of ascending high on Chongyang Festival has a long history. Ancient folk in the Chongyang Festival has the custom of climbing high, so the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Festival". Climbing "quit green" is also derived from the nature of the festival, Chongyang Festival climbing "quit green" and the ancients in the spring of March spring tour "trekking" corresponds to. The location of the climb, there is no uniform provisions, the climb to the place is roughly divided into the climb to the mountains, the climb to the high building, or the climb to the high platform.
6. Chung Yeung Festival is one of the four traditional Chinese ancestor festivals, the ancient folk tradition of ancestor worship and pray for blessings. The traditional custom of ancestor worship is still prevalent in the Lingnan area, where people hold ancestor worship activities on the Chrysanthemum Festival every year.
7. On Chrysanthemum Day, there has always been the custom of appreciating chrysanthemums, which is why it is also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival in ancient times. The custom of chrysanthemum appreciation originates from chrysanthemum culture. Chrysanthemum is a natural flower, and because of its colorful and frosty blossoms, chrysanthemum culture has been formed to appreciate chrysanthemum and praise chrysanthemum. Since the Three Kingdoms, Wei and Jin dynasties, it has become fashionable to gather and drink wine at the Chrysanthemum Festival, and to enjoy chrysanthemums and write poems. In ancient Chinese custom, chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity. Chrysanthemum is the flower of longevity, and it is also a symbol for people of literature to praise it as a symbol of unyielding frost.