The main activities of the Chung Yeung Festival are (C).

A. Eating Lanterns and Enjoying Lanterns

B. Eating Moon Cakes and Enjoying the Moon

C. Climbing Up to the Top of the Mountain and Drinking Chrysanthemum Wine

The main activities of the Chrysanthemum Festival also include enjoying chrysanthemums and wearing cornelian cherry blossoms.

Expanded Knowledge:

1, Chongyang Festival

Chongyang Festival is the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, which is a traditional festival of the Chinese people. I Ching in the nine as the number of Yang, September 9, the two nine overlap, so it is called Chung Yeung, because the sun and the moon are nine, so it is also known as Chung Yeung. The main activities include climbing up to the top, enjoying chrysanthemums and wearing dogwoods. Therefore, the Chongyang Festival is also called Denggao Festival, Chrysanthemum Festival, Cornus Festival and so on.

2, climbing

The custom of climbing on the Chongyang Festival has a long history. Ancient folk custom in the Chongyang Festival, so the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Festival". Climbing to "quit the green" is also derived from the nature of the festival, Chongyang Festival climbing "quit the green" and the ancients in the spring of March spring tour "trekking" corresponds to.

3, drink chrysanthemum wine

1) in ancient times was regarded as the Chrysanthemum must drink, get rid of disaster pray for good luck "auspicious wine", as early as in the Han Dynasty, there have been brewing, drinking chrysanthemum wine custom. Han Dynasty Liu Xin's "Xijing miscellany" has recorded, "chrysanthemum Shu, and pick stems and leaves, mixed millet for brewing, to the next year on September 9 began to ripen, on drink, so called chrysanthemum wine."

2) Chrysanthemum wine, is made from chrysanthemum and glutinous rice, wine brewed by the traditional Han Chinese wine, the ancient name of longevity wine, its flavor cool and sweet, the ancients believe that there is a nourishing the liver, eyesight, brain, slow aging and other effects. There are chrysanthemum wine with wolfberry, chrysanthemum wine with flower cake, and white chrysanthemum wine. As early as in Qu Yuan's writing, there has been a "sunset meal of autumn chrysanthemums," the sentence, that is, to eat chrysanthemum petals.

4, chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum Festival is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the year of the golden autumn, is also the chrysanthemum blooming season, in the past, people also call the ninth lunar month of the "chrysanthemum month", so in the chrysanthemum blooming month chrysanthemum viewing has become an important activity in the Chrysanthemum Festival. It is an important activity of the Chrysanthemum Festival.

5, wear cornelian cherry

The Chrysanthemum Festival wear cornelian cherry has been documented since the Jin Dynasty, cornelian cherry is also known as the "Weng of evil spirits", is an important symbol of the Chrysanthemum Festival. In the past, it was widely believed that the day of Chrysanthemum insert Cornus can ward off evil spirits, Cornus will be made into a scented bag to wear in the arm can take refuge in the disease.