What traditional food do southerners eat in Chongyang?

1, double ninth festival to respect the elderly, climb high to avoid disasters. "Gao" and "Gao" are homophonic, and they also mean "step by step" and "live forever", so "Chongyang Flower Cake" has become a popular holiday food.

2. Chongyang began to eat flower cakes in the Western Han Dynasty, when it was called "Peng Bait", that is, millet cakes. In the Song Dynasty, it was very popular to eat flower cakes on the Double Ninth Festival, which has been passed down to this day. The reason for eating flower cakes on Double Ninth Festival is the climbing custom of Double Ninth Festival. Where there are mountains, we can climb them, but where there are no mountains, we will try to make up for them and replace them. Because "cake" and "high" are homophonic, the custom of eating flower cakes has emerged.

3. At present, the Chongyang cake sold on the Double Ninth Festival will still be cut into triangles with colorful colored paper, fixed with bamboo sticks and inserted on the Chongyang cake. The small appearance is very cute, and it also represents the replacement of the huge dogwood.

4. Rice flour, fruit materials, etc. But as raw materials, some Chongyang cakes, dates and chestnuts are also added as fillings. This is also the characteristic of Nanjing. In Nanjing, Chongyang cake, also known as jujube pear cake, contains the blessing of the elderly for their children to "stand on their own feet at an early date".