What to eat on Chongyang Festival . Who is the Chongyang Festival in honor of or?

Flower cakes are eaten on the Chongyang Festival. Chongyang Festival is to honor the ancestors. Chongyang Festival to eat Chongyang cake, which is a kind of pastry made of rice flour and bean flour, plus chestnuts and almonds as fillings. To add beauty, people sprinkle osmanthus flowers on the cakes after making them in various colors. This is why it is also known as osmanthus flower cake.

The Chongyang Festival is the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, and is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The "I Ching" in the "nine" as the number of Yang, "nine nine" two Yang number is heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; because the sun and the moon are nine, so it is also known as "heavy nine The name "Chongyang" is also used because both the day and the month coincide with nine. Nine nine to the true, the beginning of a yuan, the ancients believe that the nine nine sun is an auspicious day.

Ancient folk in the Chung Yeung Festival have climbed high to pray for blessings, autumn tour to enjoy chrysanthemums, wear dogwood, worship God and ancestor and drink feasts to seek longevity and other customs. Nowadays, it has added the connotation of honoring the elderly, enjoying the feast on the day of the Chongyang Festival, and giving thanks to and honoring the elderly. The two important themes of today's Chrysanthemum Festival activities are the appreciation of autumn and thanksgiving and respect for the elderly.

According to existing historical materials and evidence, the origin of the Chongyang Festival can be traced back to ancient times. In ancient times, there were harvest offerings to heaven and sacrifices to the Great Fire Star in the seasonal autumn. Lu Shi Chunqiu - Jiqiu Ji, contained in the ancient people in the September crop harvest time to sacrifice to the emperor of heaven, ancestor worship, in order to thank the emperor of heaven, ancestor benevolence activities. This is the original form of the Chongyang Festival as the fall harvest rituals and exist.