Chongyang Festival, also known as Chongjiu Festival, Sunshine Autumn Festival, "Treading Autumn". Golden Autumn send cool, Dan Gui fragrance, the first nine days of September in the lunar calendar, Chongyang Festival, rich in activities, fun, there are drinking chrysanthemum wine, eat Chongyang cake, climbing high, eat mutton noodles and so on, the following a detailed understanding of it.

1. Drinking Chrysanthemum Wine

Because of the unique character of chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum has become a symbol of vitality. Moreover, chrysanthemum contains health ingredients, and Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty, "Holding Park Zi" has a record of people in the mountains of Nanyang drinking sweet valley water with chrysanthemum flowers all over the place to gain longevity. Therefore, drinking chrysanthemum wine during the Chung Yeung Festival is a traditional Chinese custom. In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was regarded as an "auspicious wine" that must be drunk on the day of Chung Yeung to get rid of calamities and pray for good fortune. In addition, chrysanthemum wine is a medicinal wine with a slightly bitter taste, which can make one's eyes clear and wake up the brain, and has the auspicious meaning of getting rid of disasters and praying for good fortune. That is why people drink chrysanthemum wine on the Chongyang Festival.

2. Eat Chung Yeung Cake

In the custom of Chung Yeung, eating Chung Yeung Cake is an indispensable item, because "cake" and "high" are homophonous, which implies that the standard of living rises step by step, symbolizing the happiness of the family and good luck. It symbolizes a happy and auspicious family. The main purpose of steaming cakes on Chongyang Festival is to honor the elderly. If the elderly eat the cakes, they will not have back pain, so every year, we should give the elderly the cakes, so that the elderly can have a strong back and a good spirit.

3.Climbing

One of the most important festivals of the Chrysanthemum Festival is to climb the mountain. Therefore, the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Festival of Ascending Heights". Ascending to the place, there is no uniform regulations, generally is to climb high mountains, climb high towers. Of course, people are not only climbing, but also to view the mountain leaves and wildflowers, and drink wine and eat meat, enjoy some, so that the combination of climbing and wild feast, more attractive. On the Chung Yeung Festival why climb high, there is a saying is to climb high to ward off evil spirits, in ancient times there are heavy nine a "Yang" Dengqin day, the earth's gas rise, the weather down the saying. The ancient people in order to avoid contact with the evil, so in this day of nine nine high in order to avoid the evil.

4. Eat mutton noodles

The Chongyang Festival to eat mutton noodles. So do you know why we should eat lamb noodles? In fact, because the "sheep" and "Yang" harmonic, should be the ceremony of the sun, more auspicious. The noodles should also be white to symbolize the longevity of the white head. In addition, Chung Yeung Festival is in the fall, autumn is also the most delicious season to eat lamb, to be able to cold, "stick autumn fat", so the Chung Yeung Festival to eat mutton by the northern people love.

Chongyang ancestor worship Cantonese colloquialisms known as "worship Taigongshan", all members of the family to participate. The festival is held to thank the ancestors for their kindness and to pray for their blessings after the crops are harvested, so the atmosphere is relaxed and happy, and there is no sadness like the "broken souls of pedestrians".

Tomb-sweeping and ancestor worship has a lot of rules and regulations, first worship the public ancestor, then worship the ancestor of the sub-family, and finally each family worships its own ancestor. The whole village clan, whether or not to move out of the separation, all together *** with the worship Taizu Gong. The offerings include pork (roasted or boiled), rooster (boiled), cake patties, fruits, tea, wine, clothes, coins, paper products, joss sticks, and so on.

The above is what I know about the customs of Chongyang Festival, guys, what else do you know?