After the Double Ninth Festival, it gradually entered the late autumn, and the weather gradually became cold. Crops return to the warehouse, the land is vast, the leaves of plants begin to turn golden yellow, and the color of grass is getting less and less. It's time to say goodbye to the blue vegetation that has accompanied us for half a year. So there is a saying of "tattoo".
Mountain climbing in late autumn is one of the important activities of the Double Ninth Festival. Standing on a high place, overlooking the land of Liangzhu, watching the clouds roll and the trees come and go with the seasons, and feeling the coolness of autumn. Whether it's a mountain, a tall building or a high platform, you can climb to pray and overlook the autumn scenery.
2. Enjoy chrysanthemums and drink chrysanthemum wine
Chrysanthemum frost is unyielding and is regarded as a flower with long life, so there has always been the custom of enjoying flowers on the Double Ninth Festival. In the four-year Yuanfeng Double Ninth Festival, Su Shi and Xu Jun climbed the mountain to admire chrysanthemums, drinking and writing poems: "Young people can't laugh, chrysanthemums must be planted all over."
"On September 9th, drinking chrysanthemum wine makes people drunk on Chongyang", and chrysanthemum wine is regarded as the "auspicious wine" that Chongyang must drink to exorcise evil spirits and pray for blessings. In Liu Xin's Miscellaneous Notes on Xijing in the Han Dynasty, it was recorded that "chrysanthemum is suitable, stems and leaves are picked, and miscellaneous millet is brewed. When it matures on September 9 next year, it can be drunk, so it is called chrysanthemum wine. "
Step 3 eat Chongyang cake
China people attach importance to the Double Ninth Festival in order to respect the elderly and climb high to avoid disasters. And "cake" and "high" are homophonic, meaning to rise step by step, so the double ninth festival cake is one of the most important foods.
Chongyang cake in the north is generally steamed cake of flour, flowers and fruits, also called steamed cake. It is a kind of flour-fermented bread, which is soft and sweet after adding various flowers and fruits such as red dates, nuts, candied fruit, red silk and green silk.
In addition, there is a folk song, "Just after the Mid-Autumn Festival, I am busy for Chongyang, spending a lot of money to buy cakes, just for women", which means the Double Ninth Festival, and my married daughter returns to her parents' house to send Chongyang cakes. This custom is still circulating in some places.
4. Pei dogwood
The double ninth festival has the custom of wearing dogwood, so it is also called "dogwood festival". Cornus officinalis is an important symbol of the Double Ninth Festival. People also like to wear chrysanthemums on the Double Ninth Festival. Cornus officinalis is nicknamed "evil-ward Weng" and chrysanthemum is also called "longevity-prolonging guest".
Among Cornus officinalis, the ancients believed that climbing Evodia rutaecarpa on the Double Ninth Festival could repel insects, damp and dispel pathogenic wind. So he put Cornus officinalis on his arm or in a sachet and on his head.
Wang Wei's "A brother climbs from a distance, but one dogwood is missing." On the Double Ninth Festival, distant relatives climb high and look far, feeling refreshed. They were filled with dogwood, and they made a sincere wish and prayer, only to find that one person was missing, and that person was Wang Wei himself. At this moment, Cornus officinalis not only symbolizes evil spirits, but also entrusts tourists with homesickness.