What is the custom of appreciating chrysanthemums? Introduction of chrysanthemum viewing festival.

1. Chrysanthemum viewing is a festival custom of the Double Ninth Festival. Double Ninth Festival, also known as Double Ninth Festival and Sun Autumn Festival, is a traditional festival of Han nationality. Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival, there are generally activities such as going out to enjoy autumn, climbing high and overlooking, watching chrysanthemums, inserting dogwood, eating double ninth cake and drinking chrysanthemum wine. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is also the four traditional ancestor worship festivals in China. The Double Ninth Festival was formed as early as the Warring States Period and was officially designated as a folk festival in the Tang Dynasty. From generation to generation.

2. The custom of Chongyang was popular in the Han Dynasty, which was a period of economic and cultural exchanges and integration between the north and the south of China. Cultural exchanges in various places made the custom spread. The Han Dynasty work Miscellanies of Xijing contains the ancient custom of seeking longevity on the Double Ninth Festival. Jia, a courtier of the Western Han Dynasty in Miscellanies of Xijing, said: On September 9th, Pei Yun ate bait and drank chrysanthemum wine, and the clouds made people live longer. This is the earliest record of the custom of seeking longevity on the Double Ninth Festival in written materials. It is said that this was influenced by ancient wizards (later Taoist priests) who pursued immortality and collected drugs to take. In addition, during the Warring States period, Chongyang was valued in some places, but it was only an activity in the palace.