What do you need to know to enjoy chrysanthemums and drink chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival?

In the traditional culture of China, "nine" is regarded as the largest positive number, but on the ninth day of September, the two words are equal, so the activities held on this day are endowed with various special meanings. Chongyang ascends the mountain in order to absorb the sun of heaven and earth, in order to avoid disaster; The custom of drinking chrysanthemum wine and inserting dogwood also implies the expectation of health and longevity.

Chrysanthemum and dogwood are two plants that play a very important role in the Double Ninth Festival, among which chrysanthemum is the most important. Seeing chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine and eating chrysanthemum cakes have become the symbolic customs of the Double Ninth Festival.

The chrysanthemums enjoyed on the Double Ninth Festival are only one of more than 30,000 compositae plants in the world, namely chrysanthemums. However, this single variety, because of its long history and the love of our people, has become a large family with many varieties and wide uses, and has further become the representative of the whole Compositae.

Eat chrysanthemums for a long time.

Although chrysanthemums are colorful and have different shapes, people originally used chrysanthemums not for viewing, but for eating and making chrysanthemum wine.

The ancients preferred to eat chrysanthemums, which was actually caused by the association of various characteristics of chrysanthemums. First of all, unlike most other plants, including many compositae plants, chrysanthemums mostly bloom in late autumn, which gives people a sense of pride. However, frost resistance is easily associated with "tenacity" and "longevity", so it also gives chrysanthemum the meaning of "longevity". Secondly, the stems, leaves and flowers of chrysanthemum contain a variety of volatile substances. If eaten or soaked in wine, it will give people a feeling of "refreshing" and even make people think that chrysanthemum will have the effects of "light body fit" and "body building". Therefore, in ancient times, when people believed in "harmony between man and nature", it was not surprising to eat chrysanthemums in order to achieve the effect of "prolonging life".

From "drinking" to "appreciating"

Of course, if people only used chrysanthemums as ingredients and flavoring agents for wine making, I'm afraid they wouldn't be famous today. Moreover, people began to actively plant chrysanthemums, which is why chrysanthemums have become so diverse.

For thousands of years, chrysanthemum has been closely related to the development and deepening of Double Ninth Festival and Double Ninth Festival culture, from unknown wild flowers to edible wild vegetables to the highly sought-after Xianpa in Yuen Long. The domestication and variety development of chrysanthemum show people's expectation of health and longevity and their pursuit of beauty, which is also an important connotation of the Double Ninth Festival.

For thousands of years, chrysanthemum has been closely related to the development and deepening of Double Ninth Festival and Double Ninth Festival culture, from unknown wild flowers to edible wild vegetables to the highly sought-after Xianpa in Yuen Long. The domestication and variety development of chrysanthemum show people's expectation of health and longevity and their pursuit of beauty, which is also an important connotation of the Double Ninth Festival.