What festival is it to climb mountains and pick chrysanthemums?

Climbing high to pick chrysanthemums is the Double Ninth Festival.

The Double Ninth Festival was formed as early as the Warring States Period. In the Tang Dynasty, the Double Ninth Festival was officially designated as a folk festival, which has been inherited ever since. There is a folk custom of climbing mountains on this day, so the Double Ninth Festival is also called "Mountain Climbing Festival", and there are other sayings such as Cornus officinalis Festival and Chrysanthemum Festival. When people celebrate the Double Ninth Festival, they usually climb mountains, enjoy chrysanthemums, drink chrysanthemum wine, insert dogwood and eat cakes. They often worship their ancestors on this day and carry out activities of respecting and filial piety for the elderly.

There has been a custom of enjoying chrysanthemums since the double solar calendar, so it was also called Chrysanthemum Festival in ancient times, and September in the lunar calendar was commonly known as Chrysanthemum Moon. People from all over the city came to attend the Chrysanthemum Festival. Since the Wei and Jin Dynasties in the Three Kingdoms, it has become a fashion for Chongyang parties to drink and admire chrysanthemums and compose poems. In the ancient customs of Han nationality, chrysanthemum symbolizes longevity.

Introduction to other customs of Double Ninth Festival:

1, Evodia rutaecarpa

In ancient times, there was a custom of inserting dogwood on September 9, so the Double Ninth Festival was also called the dogwood Festival. Cornus officinalis has a strong fragrance, so on the Double Ninth Festival, people have the custom of wearing or inserting Cornus officinalis when climbing high and looking far, or giving it as a gift to relatives and friends to ward off evil spirits and seek happiness.

Step 2 eat Chongyang cake

Chongyang cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake and five-color cake, is the representative food of the Double Ninth Festival on September 9. As a holiday food, it was originally used to celebrate the bumper harvest of grain and like to taste new grain. Because "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, there is auspicious meaning of climbing step by step, so there is the custom of climbing to eat cakes on the Double Ninth Festival.

Step 3 drink chrysanthemum wine

Chrysanthemum wine is cool and sweet. Since the Han and Wei Dynasties, drinking chrysanthemum wine has been very popular. In China folklore, when chrysanthemums are in full bloom, people collect the stems and leaves of chrysanthemums and mix them with grain to make wine, and wait until September 9th next year to drink.