The traditional food of Chung Yeung Festival includes Chung Yeung cake, mutton noodles and Chung Yeung chrysanthemum wine.

1, Chrysanthemum Cake

No matter in the south or north, eating Chrysanthemum Cake on the Chrysanthemum Festival is a custom that has been passed down for a long time, which means "step by step". If you don't have time to climb the mountain on the day of the sun, you can eat some of the cakes to dip into the joy, a good luck.

2, mutton noodles

Northern people to eat mutton noodles on Chongyang Festival, because "sheep" and "Yang" resonance, should be the days of Chongyang, more auspicious. Noodles should also eat white noodles, implying that the white head of the long life. In addition, Chung Yeung Festival coincides with the autumn, autumn is also the most delicious season to eat mutton. To be able to protect the cold, "stick autumn fat", by the northern people's favorite.

3, Chongyang chrysanthemum wine

Chrysanthemum wine is "nine nine Chung Yeung Festival" auspicious wine, because the "wine" resonates with the "long", there is a long, long symbolism. Therefore, there is a custom to drink chrysanthemum wine on the Chongyang Festival.

Customs related to the Chongyang Festival

1, climbing

The Chongyang Festival first of all, the custom of climbing, September, autumn, high and cool, this season, climb up and look far away can be reached to the heart, fitness and dispel the disease of the purpose.

2, eat Chung Yeung cake

With the high associated with the custom of eating Chung Yeung cake. High and cake resonance, as a holiday food, the earliest is to celebrate the harvest of autumn grain, happy to taste the new grain intention, after the folk have climbed high to eat cake, to take the auspicious meaning of step by step to climb high.

3, chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum Day, there has always been the custom of chrysanthemums, so the ancient also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival. September of the lunar calendar is commonly known as the month of chrysanthemums, the festival held chrysanthemum conference, dumping city crowds to go to the meeting to enjoy chrysanthemums. Since the Three Kingdoms, Wei and Jin dynasties, it has become fashionable to gather and drink wine, enjoy chrysanthemums and write poems on Chrysanthemums. In ancient Han Chinese custom, chrysanthemums symbolize longevity.