The Chongyang Festival has the custom of climbing high, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine and inserting dogwoods. The festival is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. "Nine" number in the "I Ching" for the number of yang, "nine" two yang number of 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 a yuan, the ancients believe that the nine nine sun is an auspicious day.

Ancient folk in the Chung Yeung Festival have climbed high to pray for blessings, autumn tour to enjoy chrysanthemums, wear dogwood, worship God and ancestor worship and drinking and praying for longevity and other customs. Nowadays, it has added the connotation of honoring the elderly, enjoying the feast on the day of Chung Yeung and honoring the elderly with thanksgiving. The two important themes of the Chrysanthemum Festival today are the appreciation of the autumn and the thanksgiving and respect for the elderly.

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The Chrysanthemum Festival is a traditional Chinese festival that combines many folklore events and cultural connotations. Celebrations of the festival generally include trips to enjoy the scenery, climbing up to a high altitude, viewing chrysanthemums, picking Chinese herbs, sticking dogwoods all over the place, organizing feasts for the elderly, eating cakes, making medicinal wine and drinking chrysanthemum wine, and so on.

The Chung Yeung Festival is a time when "clear gas rises and turbid gas sinks", and the higher the terrain, the more the gas gathers, so "Chung Yeung Festival" has become a folkloric event to climb high and enjoy the clear gas. Autumn and September, high and refreshing, this season can be achieved by climbing high and looking far away from the heart, fitness to dispel the disease of the purpose. Every nine days this day, all over the organization of the elderly mountaineering autumn tour, exchange of feelings, exercise activities. Many families of the younger generation will also help the elderly elders to the countryside activities. Chongyang Festival has a lot of folk activities, rich in cultural connotations.