What are the customs of the Chongyang Festival?

What do you do at the Chongyang Festival? What are the customs of the Chongyang Festival

1, climb up

The Chongyang Festival is the first to have the custom of climbing up. In September, this season, the sky is high and cool, this season can be achieved by climbing high and looking far away, fitness to get rid of the purpose of the disease.

2, eat Chung Yeung cake

Chung Yeung cake is also known as "flower cake". In order to beautiful to eat, people make the cake colorful, but also sprinkled on the surface of the cake on some wood rhinoceros flowers, so made of the cake, sweet and delicious, everyone loves to eat.

3, chrysanthemum

Chung Yeung Day, traditionally, the custom of chrysanthemums, so encourage ah also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival. Lunar September is commonly known as the chrysanthemum, the festival held chrysanthemum conference, dumping the city of people to go to the meeting to enjoy chrysanthemum. In the ancient Han Chinese custom, chrysanthemums symbolize longevity.

4, drink chrysanthemum wine

Chrysanthemum contains health ingredients. Drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Chongyang Festival is a traditional Chinese custom. Chrysanthemum wine, in ancient times, was regarded as a must-drink for the Chrysanthemum Festival to get rid of calamities and pray for good luck.

The festival can go to climb the mountain, eat the cake, enjoy chrysanthemums, drink chrysanthemum wine, and in some places, to worship ancestors on the day of the festival.

5, wear cornelian cherry

Cornelian cherry is slightly poisonous, has the effect of removing insects. The role of Cornus officinalis and Calamus calamus is similar to that of Dragon Boat Festival, which is to remove insects and prevent moths.

After the Chongyang Festival is known as: October small Yangchun, small Yangchun means that the weather after the Chongyang Festival has a period of warming; before the Chongyang Festival rainfall, the weather tide of the autumn heat has not yet receded, clothing is easy to mildew, with Cornus officinalis can prevent insects. Wear way: 1, wear on the arm; 2, make a scented bag, put the cornelian cherry inside the scented bag to make cornelian cherry bag to wear. 3, inserted in the head.

6, sunshine autumn

In many villages still retains the Chongyang Festival "sunshine autumn" folklore, to go to watch the sunshine autumn is also known as the autumn, is the Chongyang Festival is unique to the traditional culture.

What is sunshine autumn "sunshine autumn" generally in Hunan, Guangxi, Anhui, Jiangxi and other regions, due to the terrain, terrain complexity, the village flat land is very little, the fall harvest of things, but there is no place to sun, so they have to use the front and back of the house and their own windowsill roof racks sunshine, hanging sunshine crops, and over time has evolved into a traditional agricultural customs. Phenomenon. This villagers drying crops of the special way of life and the scene, and gradually became a painter, photographer chasing the creation of material, and shaped a poetic "sunshine autumn" name.

7, put the paper harrier

Put the paper harrier is the main custom of Huizhou Chongyang Festival. In other words, Huizhou folk over the Chongyang Festival is to put the harrier as the main feature. This custom, in addition to the Huizhou circulating ballads in addition to the narrative, Guangxu "Huizhou Prefecture" also recorded.

The paper harrier is also the kite now. The kite is the title after the Five Dynasties, before the Five Dynasties, the north is used to call "paper kite", the south is mostly called "harrier", Huizhou's "paper harrier" title is obviously retained before the Five Dynasties, the old name, and the "paper harrier" is the name of the "paper harrier". The old name, and there is a "North-South mix" flavor.

Chrysanthemum Festival food what

Eat patty cake rake

Eat patty cake rake, is the southwest of China's Chrysanthemum Festival is another food custom. There are two kinds of patties: soft and sweet and hard and salty. The practice is to wash the glutinous rice into the pot of boiling water, a boil that is fishing, steamed in a cage, and then put in the mortar pounded, rubbed into a ball can be. When consumed, the sesame seeds fried, pounded into fine powder, the mochi rake group rolled into strips, pulled into small pieces, mixed with sesame seeds, sugar and so on. The flavor is sweet and tasty, known as "soft mochi rake" (warm food is best). Hard patty cake rake, also known as "oil patty cake rake", the practice is not pounded after steaming glutinous rice, put on the case rolled into a ball, rolled out and put some salt and pepper into the "filling core", and then rolled and sliced, and then deep-fried into the frying pan, into the color of the golden beautiful, salty and crispy, and a long-lasting taste.

Eat persimmons

Eat persimmons custom, there is a folk legend in China. According to "Qiyuan Qiqi" in the introduction: one year, the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, a private visit out of the city in microdress, which is the day of the Chung Yeung Festival. He has not eaten for a day, feel hungry and thirsty, when traveling to the village of leftover firewood, only to see the family wall down tree withered, are burned for the fire, Zhu Yuanzhang secretly lamented, raised his eyes around, only the northeast corner of the tree persimmons are ripe, and then picking food, about 10 food will be satiated, but also despondent for a long time and go. B not summer, Taizu attack Cai Shi (now Maanshan City, Anhui Province, Cai Shi Jie), take Taiping (now Taiping County, Anhui Province), the road through this, persimmon tree still exists, it will be the previous private visit to eat persimmons in this matter told to the ministers, and the decree: "sealing the persimmon for the Frost Husbandry, so that the world's people in the Chrysanthemum Festival, all eating persimmons, in memory of the.