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The Double Ninth Festival first has the custom of climbing mountains. The weather is crisp in autumn and September. Climbing high and looking far in this season can achieve the purpose of relaxing body and mind, strengthening body and getting rid of diseases.

Step 2 eat Chongyang cake

Chongyang cake is also called "flower cake". In order to eat beautifully, people make colorful double ninth festival cakes and sprinkle some sweet-scented osmanthus on the cake surface. The Chongyang cake made in this way is sweet and delicious, and everyone loves it.

Step 3 enjoy chrysanthemums

The Double Ninth Festival has always had the custom of appreciating chrysanthemums, so encouragement is also called Chrysanthemum Festival. September of the lunar calendar is commonly known as chrysanthemum, and chrysanthemum meetings are held on holidays. The whole city went to the meeting to enjoy chrysanthemums. In the ancient customs of Han nationality, chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity.

Step 4 drink chrysanthemum wine

Chrysanthemum contains health-care ingredients. Drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival is a traditional custom in China. Chrysanthemum wine, in ancient times, was regarded as the "auspicious wine" that Chongyang must drink to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings.

On the Double Ninth Festival, you can climb mountains, eat double ninth cake, enjoy chrysanthemums and drink chrysanthemum wine. In some places, the Double Ninth Festival also offers sacrifices to ancestors.

5. Pei dogwood

Cornus officinalis is slightly toxic and has insecticidal effect. Cornus officinalis in Double Ninth Festival and Acorus calamus in Dragon Boat Festival have similar functions, both of which are insecticidal and moth-proof.

After the Double Ninth Festival, it is called: Xiaoyangchun in October, which means that the weather gets warmer after the Double Ninth Festival; There is a lot of rain before the Double Ninth Festival, the weather is hot and humid in autumn, and clothes are easy to get moldy. Cornus officinalis can prevent insects. How to wear it: 1, put it on your arm; 2. Make a sachet, and put the dogwood in the sachet to make a dogwood sachet to wear. 3. Stuff it into your head.

6, basking in autumn

In many villages, the folk custom of "basking in the autumn" on the Double Ninth Festival still remains. Going to see the sun in the autumn is also called enjoying the autumn, which is a unique traditional culture of the Double Ninth Festival.

What is "sunbathing" in autumn? Generally, in Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui, Jiangxi and other areas, due to the complex topography, there are few flat areas in the village, and there are many things harvested in autumn, but there is no place to dry them. So we have to use the roofs in front of the house and behind our own windowsill to hang crops, which has evolved into a traditional agricultural custom phenomenon over time. This special lifestyle and scene of villagers drying crops has gradually become the material pursued and created by painters and photographers, and created a poetic name "drying autumn".

7, put paper harrier

Putting paper owls is the main custom of celebrating the Double Ninth Festival in Huizhou. In other words, the folk Double Ninth Festival in Huizhou is mainly characterized by paper flying kites. This habit is not only described in the folk songs circulating in Huizhou, but also described in Guangxu's Huizhou Fu Zhi.

Paper harriers are kites now, too. Kite is the title after the Five Dynasties. Five dynasties ago, the north used to call it a "paper kite" and the south used to call it a "kite". The appellation of "paper kite" in Huizhou obviously retains the ancient appellation of five dynasties ago, and has the flavor of "a mixture of north and south".

What foods are there for the Double Ninth Festival?

Eat a rake

Raking is another food custom in the Double Ninth Festival in southwest China. Rakes are divided into soft and sweet, hard and salty. Its practice is to put the washed glutinous rice into a boiling pot, boil it, steam it in a cage, mash it in a mortar and knead it into a ball. When eating, stir-fry sesame seeds, pound them into fine powder, rake them into strips, pull them into small pieces, and mix them with sesame seeds and sugar. Its taste is sweet and palatable, and it is called "soft rake" (warm food is the best). Hard harrow, also called "oil harrow", is made by steaming glutinous rice without mashing it, rubbing it into a ball on the table, rolling it out, putting some salt and pepper powder as "stuffing", rolling it into strips and slicing it, and frying it in an oil pan. Golden and beautiful in color, salty and crisp, with endless aftertaste.

Eat persimmon

Eating persimmons is a custom, and there is a legend in our country. According to "Wonderland", one year, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, went out of the city incognito, which coincided with the Double Ninth Festival. He hasn't eaten for a day. He feels hungry and thirsty. When he arrived in Zuochai Village, he saw that every wall had fallen down and all the trees had withered, all of which were burned by soldiers and fire. Zhu Yuanzhang secretly lamented and looked around. Only one persimmon tree in the northeast corner was ripe, so he picked it and ate about 10. He was full and disappointed. Before the second summer, Taizu attacked quarrying (now Caishiji, Maanshan City, Anhui Province) and took Taiping (now Taiping County, Anhui Province). The Taoist scriptures are here, and the persimmon tree still exists. He told the courtiers about his previous private visit to eat persimmons here, and made a decree: "After naming persimmons, everyone in the world can eat persimmons as a souvenir on the Double Ninth Festival.