What to eat on the Double Ninth Festival?

Eat flower cakes, crabs, mutton noodles and drink chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival.

Flower cake, the most traditional food of the Double Ninth Festival, has been handed down since the Song Dynasty. Because it is homophonic with "Gao", it means "step by step", which is similar to the meaning of climbing a mountain on the Double Ninth Festival. Many places will make flower cakes on this day.

Autumn wind, crab feet itch, old wine is mellow, osmanthus fragrance. Autumn is the most fertile season for crabs. Crab is also a seasonal food in autumn and one of the favorite seafood in the Double Ninth Festival.

There is a custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival. Because the wine just sounds like "nine", it is called Jiujiu Festival. People began to drink chrysanthemum wine brewed with chrysanthemums, smell the fragrance of chrysanthemums and eat flower cakes, which is a great enjoyment in the festival.

Double Ninth Festival custom:

In the process of historical continuation, the Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival in China, which combines many folk customs and cultural connotations.

Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and looking far, watching chrysanthemums, picking Chinese herbal medicines, holding banquets for the elderly, eating double ninth cake, keeping in good health with medicinal liquor, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities. The Double Ninth Festival is a season of "clear sky rising, turbid air sinking". The higher the terrain, the more clear the sky, so "climbing to enjoy the clear sky on the Double Ninth Festival" has become a folk custom.

Autumn in September, the sky is crisp, this season, climbing high and looking far can achieve the purpose of refreshing, fitness and recuperation. There are many folk activities and rich cultural connotations in the Double Ninth Festival.