What to eat on Chongyang Festival in Chaoshan

Chaoshan Chrysanthemum Festival eat autumn melon leaf kuey teow, eat oil sesame ball, eat Jiu Huang Zhai and so on.

1, eat autumn melon leaf kuey teow

In Chenghai, Chaoshan, on the day of Chung Yeung Festival, a snack called autumn melon leaf kuey teow, also called kuey teow, made of autumn melon leaves and rice ground into a powder made of a snack.

2, eat oil hemp dumplings

Customary to eat oil hemp dumplings on the Chongyang Festival in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, the "oil hemp dumplings" of the "dough", in the Chaozhou dialect read "edge", "dough" is exactly the same as "edge", "dough" is exactly the same as "edge", "dough" is exactly the same as "edge", "dough" is exactly the same as "edge". "Tuan" is exactly the same as the pronunciation of "edge", so the ancient Chao people had the important custom of "edge" in the Chongyang Festival, which means to make a good relationship. On the day of Chung Yeung Festival, neighbors visited each other and gave each other "oil hemp balls".

3, eat nine Huangzhai

Old Chaozhou opera troupe from the first day of the first nine nights to eat fasting, said food nine Huangzhai. Since the first day of the whole class wearing white shirts and pants, daily incense worship, the first nine nights, all worship (along with the Xuanwu Mountain Buddha and the play God Tian Yuanshuai worship together). Folk also worship the Nine Emperors. But in Thailand, the Chao ethnic Chinese people eat nine Huangzhai is very grand, from the first to the ninth or tenth, generally eat nine Huangzhai, worship the custom of the Emperor God.

Customs of the Chaoshan Chongyang Festival:

1, ancestor worship

Because the first nine days of September, "nine nine" resonates with "long time", there is a long time meaning, so often on this day. Day ancestor worship and the implementation of activities to honor the elderly. There are some Chaoshan villages will also be the Chung Yeung as a festival of ancestral worship, Chao custom in the Chung Yeung Festival ancestor worship are poorer people, can not afford to worship each ancestor in the anniversary of the death of the ancestors, will be in this day to do a total worship, to seek understanding of the ancestors.

2, kite flying

is a mass folk game activity in Chaoshan. The reason why kite-flying is prevalent in the Chongyang Festival of Chaoshan custom is that at this festival, the sky is high and fresh, which is the best period for kite-flying. In the rural areas of Chaoshan, there are many people who believe that every September 9 of the lunar calendar, "Chongyang Festival" is a "lucky day". The kite flying means "bad luck" is gone and "good luck" will come.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Chongyang Festival