The implication of drinking chrysanthemum wine on Double Ninth Festival Why should we drink chrysanthemum wine on Double Ninth Festival?

1. Drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival is an ancient folk custom, which means keeping fit and prolonging life. The ancients called chrysanthemum wine "not old prescription", which recorded a kind of "not old prescription": "It is not old to pick chrysanthemum, poria cocos and rosin on September 9."

2. There is a more specific record in Compendium of Materia Medica: "On September 9th, white chrysanthemums, called gold, were picked, and two kilograms of poria cocos and one kilogram of minced meat were taken, two yuan each, three times a day, and taken with warm wine, or one pill. Mainly dizzy, just wear it for a long time, not old. "

The custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine is actually related to the health care of solar terms. Chrysanthemum is the timely flower of the Double Ninth Festival, and it is called "the first frost and the only grass". According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the nature and taste of chrysanthemum should belong to "sweet, bitter and slightly cold, belonging to lung and liver meridians". Its main functions are dispelling wind and clearing heat, calming the liver and improving eyesight, and treating wind-heat and fever, red eyes, swelling and pain, red eyes and dizziness.