Chrysanthemum viewing is a custom of what festival

Appreciation of chrysanthemums is a festival custom of Chongyang Festival. Chongyang Festival, also known as Chongjiu Festival and Sunshine Autumn Festival, is a traditional Han Chinese festival. Celebrate the Chongyang Festival generally have a trip to enjoy the autumn, climbing high and far away, viewing chrysanthemums, insert dogwood, eat Chongyang cake, drink chrysanthemum wine and other activities. Every year, on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, it is also the festival of the four traditional Chinese ancestor worship. The Chongyang Festival, which took shape as early as the Warring States period, was officially designated as a folk festival in the Tang Dynasty, and has since been carried on by successive dynasties to the present day.

The Chrysanthemum custom was popularized in the Han Dynasty, which was a period of economic and cultural exchanges and fusion between the north and south of China, and cultural exchanges around the world led to the fusion and spread of festivals and customs. The Han Dynasty works "Xijing Miscellany" included the ancient Chongyang Festival to seek life customs. In Xijing Miscellany, Jia Peilan, a courtesan during the Western Han Dynasty, said, "On the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth lunar month, one wears cornelian cherry, eats ponzu bait, and drinks chrysanthemum wine, and the clouds make people live longer." This is the earliest record of the custom of seeking longevity on the Chongyang Festival in written materials. It is said to be influenced by ancient sorcerers (later Taoist priests) who sought longevity and collected medicines to take. It is also said that in the Warring States period, Chongyang has been valued by people in some places, but it was only an activity carried out in the royal palace.