Drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival means: keeping fit and prolonging life.

The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival in China with rich folk customs. For example, on this day, people should climb high and look far, insert dogwood to ward off evil spirits, eat Chongyang cake and drink chong yang wine brewed with chrysanthemum as raw material. Then let's understand the significance of drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival.

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Drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival is a folk custom of the ancient Double Ninth Festival, 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."

"Compendium of Materia Medica" has a more specific record: "On September 9, I took white chrysanthemum, named Jin, and took 2 Jin of Poria, and smashed it into powder. Two yuan each time, take it with warm wine three times a day, or take one pill each with refined turpentine and meatballs (eggs). Mainly dizzy, just wear it for a long time, not old. "

The custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine is actually related to solar terms health care. 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 cold, red eyes and swelling, red eyes and dizziness.

Conclusion: The Double Ninth Festival is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, which is homophonic with "Jiujiu" and "Jiujiu". It means that for a long time, the ancients brewed chrysanthemums into wine and took them out every time on the Double Ninth Festival. Besides health care, it also means praying for good luck.