The Chongyang Festival should eat Chongyang cake and Chongyang rice fruit.

According to historical records, Chongyang cake is also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, five-color cake, the system is not fixed, more casual. September 9 when the sky is bright, to piece of cake on the forehead of the children, the mouth read the words, wishing the children all things are high, is the ancient people in September for the cake of the original intention. The delicate Chongyang cake to be made into nine layers, like a pagoda, the top is also made into two small sheep, in line with the meaning of Chongyang (sheep).

Pu Xian, Fujian, people follow the old custom, to steam nine layers of Chongyang rice fruit, China's ancient times, there is a Chongyang "bait" custom, "bait" that is today's pastries, rice fruit and so on. Since modern times, people have changed the rice fruit into a very distinctive nine heavy rice fruit.

This nine-layer overlap of rice fruit, can be uncovered, cut into rhombus, the four sides of the hierarchy, was translucent body, eating sweet and soft to the mouth, and does not stick to the teeth, can be called the best gift to honor the elderly Chung Yeung food.

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Other customs of the Chrysanthemum Festival:

1, chrysanthemum and drink chrysanthemum wine?

The Chrysanthemum Festival is the time of the year when chrysanthemums are in full bloom, and it is rumored that enjoying chrysanthemums and drinking chrysanthemum wine originated with Tao Yuanming, a great poet of the Jin Dynasty. In Kaifeng, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, chrysanthemum appreciation was prevalent, and at that time there were many varieties of chrysanthemums in a variety of shapes and sizes.

Folk also called the ninth month of the lunar calendar "Chrysanthemum Month", and in the Chrysanthemum Festival, where chrysanthemums blossomed, chrysanthemum viewing became an important part of the festival. After the Qing Dynasty, chrysanthemum appreciation is especially prosperous, and is not limited to the ninth day of the ninth month, but is still the most prosperous before and after the Chrysanthemum Festival.

2, mountaineering and autumn tour

After the founding of New China, the Chongyang Festival activities are enriched with new content. 1989, China's Chongyang Festival as the Elderly Day. The first to this day, all over the world to organize the elderly mountaineering autumn excursions, broaden their horizons, exchanges of feelings, exercise, and cultivate people to return to nature, love of the country's great mountains and rivers of noble character.

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