Cold dew festival customs cold dew festival what customs

1, climbing

As we all know, the Chongyang Festival climbing custom has a long history. Due to the Chongyang Festival in the cold dew before and after the festival, cold dew festival pleasant climate and very suitable for mountaineering, slowly Chongyang Festival climbing custom has become a cold dew festival custom. Climbing to the top of the mountain means "rising higher and higher" and "longevity". In ancient times, climbing up to the top of the mountain originated from "avoiding trouble".

Ascending not only can be nostalgic, temperament, and by ascending, people can take the opportunity to put aside the work worries, through contact with nature, to relieve stress, relaxation, so in the autumn high, the sky high and cloudy season, ascending far and wide, shouting a few outbursts in the chest of the turbulence of the sadness of the mood of the inhibition of the great benefits.

2, eat sesame seeds

Cold dew to, the weather from cool to cold. According to Chinese medicine, "spring and summer Yang, fall and winter yin" the theory of the four seasons. At this time, people should nourish the yin to prevent dryness, moisturize the lungs and stomach. Thus, the folk have "cold dew eat sesame" custom. In Beijing, sesame-related foods have become popular before and after the cold dew, such as sesame cake, sesame green bean cake, sesame baklava and so on.

Sesame is divided into white sesame and black sesame. Edible white sesame is good, medicinal black sesame is good. White sesame is usually called "two sesame", and black sesame "black" word can not be omitted, nor is it superfluous. The proverb says: "Chew black sesame seeds, live to be a hundred years old without gray hair." It means that black sesame nourishes black hair.

3, eat flower cake

Because the weather is getting cold, the trees and flowers withered in the imminent, so people say this is "resignation". Nine nine, but also to eat flower cake, because "high" and "cake" resonance, so should be the festival pastry called "Chung Yeung flower cake," meaning "step by step "

Flower Cake

The main types of flower cakes are "brown flower cake", "fine flower cake" and "money flower cake". Stick some coriander leaves as a sign, the center of the green fruit, small dates, walnuts and other dried fruits; "fine flower cake" has 3 layers, 2 layers, each layer of the center of the finer candied fruits, such as dried apples, dried peaches, dried apricots, jujubes and so on. The money flower cake is basically the same as the fine flower cake. But smaller, as "money" in general, mostly upper class nobles food.

4, drink chrysanthemum wine

Cold dew and Chrysanthemum Festival is close, when the chrysanthemums bloom, in addition to the autumn dryness, some areas have to drink "chrysanthemum wine" custom, this custom with the high altitude, and gradually moved to the Chrysanthemum Festival. Chrysanthemum wine is made from chrysanthemums plus glutinous rice and wine curds, and is known as "longevity wine" in ancient times. Its flavor is cool and sweet, and it has the effects of nourishing the liver, brightening the eyes, strengthening the brain, and slowing down the aging process.

On the day of the cold dew, the ancients also take the water in the well used to make nourishing pills or medicinal wine to nourish the five organs. Ancient books recorded: "September 9, picking chrysanthemums and ambrosia, pine resin, long service, people do not age." Chrysanthemum wine at the time of the Chongyang festival insert dogwood, can make the body free from the first cold due to the wind