1, in China Chongyang Festival when eating flower cake custom as early as in the Han Dynasty, according to the then "Xijing Miscellany" recorded: "September 9, Pei Zhu, eat pong bait, drink chrysanthemum wine, eaters long life." Among them, "eat pong bait", is to eat pong cake means. "Cake" and "high" homophonic, but also "step by step", "longevity nine nine" meaning, so "Chrysanthemum cake has become a popular holiday food. Chrysanthemum cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, five-color cake, the system is not fixed, more random, there are "brown flower cake", "fine flower cake" and "money flower cake". Cake inserted in small colorful flags, filling and printing double sheep, take the meaning of "Chongyang". Steam Chongyang cake method is the same as steaming rice cakes, but the steamed cake should be a little smaller, the cake should be a little thinner.

2, in order to eat in the beautiful, people make Chongyang cake colorful, but also sprinkled on the surface of the cake with some wood rhinoceros flowers (so Chongyang cake is also known as osmanthus cake), so that the made of Chongyang cake, sweet and tasty, everyone loves to eat. After the Chung Yeung cake more derived from a number of varieties, a variety of names, such as with pear, orange and pomegranate and other different fruits, "Spring Orchid, Autumn and Chrysanthemum"; to chestnut yellow, ginkgo and pine meat as a condiment and pinch into the face of a lion's "lion barbaric cake"; there is a cake placed on the deer several, with the "Fuk Luk Shou" in the "Luk" resonance of the "food Luk cake".