The significance of the Chongyang Festival is to honor the elderly, ancestors, and thanksgiving and so on. For a long time, the folk have the custom of ascending to the heights to pray for blessings on the Chongyang Festival, inserting cornelian cherry, worshipping the gods and paying tribute to the ancestors and so on, and in the "Memories of the Shandong Brothers on September 9," "I know that the brothers are ascending to the heights, and inserting cornelian cherry less than one person." On the illustration of this one day of reunion, expressed the poet's heart to the loved ones of the feelings of longing.
The Chrysanthemum Festival, together with New Year's Eve, Ching Ming Festival, and the half of the seventh month, are known as the four traditional Chinese festivals for ancestor worship. In addition to the significance of ancestor worship, Chongyang Festival also represents longing, reunion, and now also represents gratitude and respect for the elderly. Climbing up to enjoy autumn and giving thanks and respecting the elderly are two important themes of today's Chongyang Festival activities. Advocating the whole society to establish a culture of respect for the elderly, filial piety and love for the elderly. Qu Yuan's "far travel" wrote: "set Chongyang into the emperor's palace Ruoxi, made the beginning of ten days and watch the Qingdu". The term "Chongyang" here refers to the day, not yet to the festival.
Cao Pi, the emperor of the Three Kingdoms period, wrote in his "Book of Nine Days and Zhong Yao" that the feast of the Chung Yeung Festival was already explicitly written: "The year goes by and the month comes and goes, and suddenly it is the ninth day of the ninth month. Nine is the number of yang, and the sun and the moon should also be, the common people commend its name, think it is suitable for a long time, so to enjoy the feast of the high meeting."
Tao Yuanming, a literati of the Jin Dynasty, said in the preface to the poem "Nine Days of Idleness": "I live in idleness, love the name of the ninth. Autumn chrysanthemums fill the garden, while holding the mash by and by, empty clothing nine Chinese, sends the mind to the words." Here both chrysanthemum and wine are mentioned. Probably in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Chongyang Day has been the practice of drinking wine, chrysanthemum appreciation. By the Tang Dynasty Chongyang was officially designated as a folk festival.
To the Ming Dynasty, in the September Chung Yeung, the whole palace would eat flower cakes together to celebrate, and the emperor would personally go to Mount Banzai to climb up to the heights in order to enjoy the autumn spirit, a custom which has been passed down until the Qing Dynasty.