What are the customs of the Double Ninth Festival?

The Double Ninth Festival generally includes activities such as sightseeing, climbing high and overlooking, enjoying chrysanthemums, picking Chinese herbal medicines, planting dogwood everywhere, holding banquets for the elderly, eating double ninth cake, making medicinal liquor for health preservation, and drinking chrysanthemum wine. The Double Ninth Festival is a season of "clear sky rising, turbid air sinking". The higher the terrain, the more clear the sky, so "climbing to enjoy the clear sky on the Double Ninth Festival" has become a folk custom. Autumn in September, the sky is crisp, this season, climbing high and looking far can achieve the purpose of refreshing, fitness and recuperation. On the Double Ninth Festival, all localities organize activities for the elderly to climb mountains, have an autumn outing, exchange feelings and exercise. The younger generation of many families will also help the elderly to go to the suburbs. There are many folk activities and rich cultural connotations in the Double Ninth Festival.