Customs of the Chrysanthemum Festival include: sunbathing in autumn, releasing paper kites, climbing up to the top of the mountain, eating Chrysanthemum cakes, worshipping one's ancestors, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine, and wearing cornelian cherry blossoms.

The Chrysanthemum Festival is the best time to enjoy autumn, and some mountain villages in southern China have retained the feature of "sunbathing". "Sunshine autumn" is a typical agricultural phenomenon, villagers in mountainous areas, due to the complex terrain, the village flat land is very little, so they have to use the front and back of the house and their own windows roof hanging sunshine crops, over time it has evolved into a traditional agricultural phenomenon.

This villagers drying crops of the special way of life and the scene, and gradually became a painter, photographers chasing the creation of the material, and shaped the poetic "sunshine autumn" name. "September 9, is the sun, put the paper kite, line love long". Paper kites are what we call kites, and the custom of flying kites on the 9th day of the 9th month has been preserved in Guangdong and Fujian.

The custom has a long history

The Chrysanthemum Festival climbing custom has a long history, one of the most important festivities of the Chrysanthemum Festival, that is, climbing. Therefore, the Chongyang Festival is also known as the "high festival", the place to go, there is no uniform regulation, generally is to climb high mountains, climb the tower. Of course, people are not only climbing, but also to view the mountain leaves and wildflowers, and drink and eat meat, enjoy some, so that the combination of climbing and wild feast, more attractive.

According to historical records, Chongyang cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake, five-color cake, the system is not fixed, more random. September 9 when the sky is bright, with a piece of cake on the forehead of the children, the mouth read the words, wishing the children all things are high, is the ancient people in September for the cake of the original intention. The delicate Chongyang cake to be made into nine layers, like a pagoda, above also made into two small sheep, in line with the meaning of Chongyang (sheep).