1, flower cake

The Chrysanthemum Festival honors the elderly, climbing high to avoid disasters. "Cake" and "high" homophonic, but also "step by step", "longevity nine nine" meaning, so the "Chongyang Hua Gao" has become a popular holiday food.

2, chestnut cake

Beijing's snacks there are two is designed to eat at the Chongyang Festival, a flower cake, a chestnut cake. The chestnut cake is made from chestnut puree.

Patty cake

Eating patty cake is another food custom of the Chrysanthemum Festival in the southwest of China.

Chrysanthemum Wine

Chrysanthemum wine is drunk at the Chrysanthemum Festival. JiuJiu is the same as "JiuJiu" and also the same as "wine", which is why the saying of drinking chrysanthemum wine on the 9th day of the 9th month was derived.

Mutton noodles

The Chongyang Festival should eat mutton noodles. "Sheep" and "Yang" resonance, should be the ceremony of Chung Yeung. Noodles to eat white noodles, "white" is "hundred" word to remove the top of the "one", a hundred minus one for ninety-nine symbolism, in order to respond to the "nine-nine The "Nine Nine" is a symbol of "one hundred minus one", in response to the "Nine Nine".

Crab

The food of Chung Yeung Festival, and crab. Zheng Banqiao poem: "festive into the Chung Yeung, holding the chela cut tender ginger." It is the evidence of the tradition of eating crabs at Chung Yeung.