What is the meaning of Dengao in "Treading Autumn and Appreciating Chrysanthemums to Climb the Mountain"?

Denggao means mountain climbing in "Treading Autumn and Appreciating Chrysanthemums". The meaning of "trekking in autumn" is to go out for an autumn excursion, and the meaning of "enjoying chrysanthemums" is to see chrysanthemums.

The first line is: "Honor the elderly and filial piety to celebrate the 9th day of the 9th lunar month," and the next line is: "Step on the autumn chrysanthemums to ascend the mountain". The phrase "to appreciate chrysanthemums in autumn" comes from the second grade text "Literacy 2: Traditional Festivals" in the second book of the Humanistic Education Edition (HET).

The Chrysanthemum Festival is a traditional Chinese festival that combines many folklore events and cultural connotations throughout its history. Celebrations of the festival generally include trips to enjoy the scenery, climbing up to a high altitude, viewing chrysanthemums, picking Chinese herbs, sticking dogwoods all over the place, organizing feasts for the elderly, eating cakes, making medicinal wine and drinking chrysanthemum wine, and so on.

The Chung Yeung Festival is a time when "clear gas rises and turbid gas sinks", and the higher the terrain, the more the gas gathers, so "Chung Yeung Festival" has become a folkloric event to climb high and enjoy the clear gas. Autumn and September, high and refreshing, this season can be achieved by climbing high and looking far away from the heart, fitness to dispel the disease of the purpose. Every nine days this day, all over the organization of the elderly mountaineering autumn tour, exchange of feelings, exercise activities.