What kind of wine do you drink on the traditional Double Ninth Festival in China?

Chrysanthemum wine, also known as longevity wine, is a kind of wine brewed with chrysanthemum, glutinous rice and koji. Since ancient times, there has been a custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine during the Double Ninth Festival. Chrysanthemum wine brewed in China was popular as early as the Han and Wei Dynasties. According to Xijing Miscellanies, "Chrysanthemum is suitable, stems and leaves are harvested, and miscellaneous millet is brewed. It will be called chrysanthemum wine when it is cooked on September 9 next year.

As early as Chu State, Qu Yuan wrote The Evening Banquet and Autumn Chrysanthemum. Chrysanthemum wine was popular in Han and Wei Dynasties. "Miscellanies of Xijing" records that "chrysanthemum is suitable, stems and leaves are picked, and miscellaneous millet is brewed. Drink it when it is ripe on September 9 next year, so it is called chrysanthemum wine. " Emperor gaozu "on September 9th, the palace cornucopia, eat lotus bait, drink chrysanthemum wine. Clouds make people live longer. "

Guan Liang wrote in the Southern Dynasties that "drinking chrysanthemum wine can eliminate disasters". This is the beginning of the ancient custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival.

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Wu Junzhi, a Southern Dynasty man, wrote in the book Continued Harmony: According to legend, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a man named Huan Jing in runan county. A great plague suddenly occurred in the residence, and my parents died of illness, so I went to the southeast mountain to learn from my teacher. The immortal Fei Changfang gave Huan Jing a dragon sword to subdue the demon. Huan Jing gets up early and goes to bed late, wears a Dai Yue, studies hard and practices hard.

One day, Fei Changfang said, "On September 9, the plague will come again, so you can go back and kill pests." And gave him a bag of dogwood leaves and a bottle of chrysanthemum wine, so that the elders in their hometown could climb high to avoid disaster. So he left and went back to his hometown. On September 9, he led his wife, children and fellow villagers to a nearby mountain. Take the dogwood leaves with you, but the plague demon is afraid to go near them.

Pour out the chrysanthemum wine and everyone will take a sip to avoid catching the plague. He fought the plague demon and finally killed it. Up to now, people on both sides of the Ruhe River are still telling stories about climbing mountains to avoid disasters and waving swords and stabbing demons on September 9. Since then, people celebrate the Double Ninth Festival and have the custom of climbing mountains on the Double Ninth Festival.

Many important books, such as Beginners in the Tang Dynasty and Taiping Yu Lan in the Song Dynasty, all recounted this story in Wu Jun's "Continuation of Qi and Harmony of Things", arguing that the custom of women tying dogwood bags on their arms to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters came from this.