The symbolism of eating Chongyang cake on Chongyang Festival is: rising higher and higher. It is generally believed that the Chongyang cake originated from the custom of ascending the heights on the Chongyang Festival. According to Wu Jun's "Qi Harmonious Records" of the Southern Liang Dynasty, during the Han Dynasty, Huan Jing, a native of Ru Nan, studied immortality under Fei Changfang. On a certain day, Fei Changfang told his student that there would be a great disaster coming to your house on September 9, so he could teach his family to sew a cloth bag with cornelian cherry, tie it on his arm, and then hike up the mountain to drink chrysanthemum wine, and the disaster would be eliminated.

Huan Jing acted according to his words, and was indeed unhurt. Later generations followed suit, so the formation of the first nine days of September to climb the mountain, drink chrysanthemum wine, insert dogwood and a whole set of Chrysanthemum Festival customs. The original intention of the degree, is the general public due to the urban landscape and the limitations of the material resources, want to climb high to avoid trouble or collection of cornelian cherry more inconvenience, so to eat cake instead of climb high (cake), to insert paper flag instead of inserting cornelian cherry, by harmonizing the false story ear, the intention is still in the avoidance of trouble.

Contraindications and Side Effects

Annual Chongyang Festival is the festival of the elderly, filial piety children will always be in this day to the elderly to buy a few pieces of Chongyang cake. However, due to the increasing number of geriatric diseases pestering our elders, eat Chongyang cake should also have some scruples Professor Tong Bende, director of the nutritional department of the Changzheng Hospital affiliated with the Second Military Medical University, pointed out that the Chongyang cake as a kind of snacks, should not be eaten on an empty stomach.

Chongyang cake is a class of high-carbohydrate, high-fat, low-protein food, eaten on an empty stomach, will prompt excessive secretion of gastric acid, causing acid reflux, and even heartburn and other situations, especially stomach patients, more likely to induce the onset of the disease. So a lot of people would not be suitable for eating Chongyang cake, Prof. Tong reminded that the following groups of people in the consumption of Chongyang cake should pay attention to, should be eaten sparingly, cautiously or not eat.

The above content reference? Baidu Encyclopedia - Chongyang cake