Chrysanthemum wine is drunk on the Chongyang Festival. In ancient times, chrysanthemum wine was regarded as the "lucky wine" that must be drunk at the Chung Yeung Festival. Because of its unique character, chrysanthemum has become a symbol of vitality. Chrysanthemum contains health-enhancing ingredients. Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty, who was a member of the Nanyang family, recorded that people in the mountains of Nanyang gained longevity by drinking sweet valley water with chrysanthemums growing all over it. Drinking chrysanthemum wine at the Chung Yeung Festival is a traditional Chinese custom.

Customs of Chrysanthemum Festival

1, enjoy the autumn: Chrysanthemum Festival is the best time to enjoy the autumn, there are still some mountainous villages in southern China retained the "sunshine autumn" characteristics. Go to the countryside to enjoy folklore, see the sunshine autumn, has become a fashion of rural tourism. "Sunshine autumn" is a typical agricultural phenomenon, with strong regional characteristics. In Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui, Jiangxi and other villagers living in mountainous areas, due to the complex terrain, the village flat land is very little, had to use the front and back of the house and the roof of the home windowsill frame sun, hanging sun crops, over time has evolved into a traditional agricultural phenomenon.

2, climbing: Chongyang Festival climbing custom has a long history. Ancient folk in the Chrysanthemum Festival custom, so the Chrysanthemum Festival is also known as the "Festival". Climbing "to quit the green" is also derived from the nature of the festival, Chongyang Festival climbing "to quit the green" and the ancients in the spring of March spring tour "trekking" corresponds to. The location of the climb, there is no uniform provisions, the climb to the place is roughly divided into the climb to the mountains, the climb to the high building, or the climb to the high platform.

3. Drinking Chrysanthemum Wine: Drinking Chrysanthemum Wine during the Chrysanthemum Festival is a traditional Chinese custom. Chrysanthemum wine, in ancient times, was regarded as the "auspicious wine" that must be drunk at the Chrysanthemum Festival.

4, wearing cornelian cherry: ancient times, the custom of nine nine cornelian cherry, so it is also called Cornelian cherry festival. Old Han folk festival custom, popular in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the Huaihe River, the Yangtze River basin and other places.

Origin of Chrysanthemum Wine in Chrysanthemum Festival

Chrysanthemum wine was already drunk in the Han Dynasty. In Wei Dynasty, Cao Bu had given chrysanthemums to Zhong Yao on Chongyang to wish him a long life. Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty wrote in his book, "The people in the mountains of Nanyang, Henan Province, lived longer and better because they drank the chrysanthemums in the water of the sweet valley". Liang Jianwendi chrysanthemum picking in the chapter there is "Xiang Huo basket picking chrysanthemum beads, rising from the dew wet stained Luo Cu" "sentence, also picking chrysanthemum brewing action. Until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, chrysanthemum wine was still prevalent, and in the Ming Dynasty, Gao Lian's Zunsheng eight notes still recorded that it was a prevalent fitness drink.

The brewing of chrysanthemum wine

""Chrysanthemum wine" is the wine brewed with chrysanthemums, which is recorded in the Xijing Miscellany ""When the chrysanthemums are in bloom, the stems and leaves are picked and brewed with mixed cords until September 9 of the next year, and then they are cooked, so they are drunk, and are therefore called chrysanthemum wine. In ancient times, the first year of the Chrysanthemum Festival is designed for the second year of the Chrysanthemum Festival wine. September 9 this day, picking the first bloom of chrysanthemums and points of verdant branches and leaves, mixed in the preparation of brewing grain brewing, to be the first year to drink Chrysanthemum.