What is the custom of Suzhou Double Ninth Festival?

1. Eating Double Ninth Cake Suzhou people eat Double Ninth Cake on Double Ninth Festival, not only because the cake itself is delicious, but more importantly because it has a beautiful meaning. It is said that climbing on the Double Ninth Festival can avoid disaster. Because "cake" and "high" are homophonic, people make a cake and put a small flag on it at the same time, indicating that climbing high can eliminate disasters. Chongyang cake also has the beautiful meaning of wishing children "everything is high". Now there are very few Chongyang cakes with Suzhou characteristics.

Mountain climbing is the most prominent custom of the Double Ninth Festival. Scholars in Suzhou like to climb mountains on the Double Ninth Festival. It is said that in the Spring and Autumn Period, Fu Cha, the king of Wu, climbed a mountain next to Lingyan Mountain. This mountain, also called He Jiuling, is now a scenic spot in the western suburbs of Suzhou.

3. People think that September 9th is the day to eliminate disasters. They should insert dogwood and drink chrysanthemum wine to avoid evil spirits and eliminate disasters. Cornus officinalis is a traditional Chinese medicine with fragrant smell, which has the functions of expelling parasites and expelling wind, treating cold and heat, promoting digestion and resolving food stagnation.

4, eat crabs and drink chrysanthemum wine As the saying goes: "September navel is sharp in October, and you can drink chrysanthemum days with your claws." The hairy crabs caught in Yangcheng Lake and Taihu Lake on the Double Ninth Festival are top grade, very vigorous, plump and famous all over the world. Crabs are rich in protein, which is called high-quality protein food. Wu people have known love life since ancient times, so it is "true spirit" to enjoy flowers and drink while eating crabs. The Double Ninth Festival is golden autumn, which reminds old Suzhou of Khufu's chrysanthemum. On the Double Ninth Festival, flower farmers will carry them into the city one by one, and every household will put a few pots, not only to ward off evil spirits, but also to eat vegetables and drink a cup of chrysanthemum wine to relieve the cold of crabs, and chrysanthemum leaves can also be used to remove fishy smell. In this way, it has become a distinctive style of Wu Di Chongyang. The Double Ninth Festival is also a festival for the elderly. As a vulnerable group, many legitimate rights and interests of the elderly are "ignored". Young people pay attention to the elderly, so it is necessary to have such a festival for the elderly. September 9th of the lunar calendar 1989 is designated as the Day for the Elderly, and the whole society is encouraged to establish the atmosphere of respecting, loving and helping the elderly. 20 12 On June 26th, the 27th meeting of the 11th the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) deliberated the revised draft of the Law on the Protection of the Rights and Interests of the Elderly for the first time, stipulating that the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Day for the Elderly. The Double Ninth Festival has become a festival to respect, respect and love the elderly. It is a clever combination of tradition and modernity, which makes the younger generation more deeply aware of the significance of festivals.