: The Double Ninth Festival has been mentioned as early as the "Chu Ci" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan wrote in his "Yuan Yuan": "Gathering on the Double Ninth Festival, we entered the imperial palace and visited the Qing capital at the beginning of Xun Dynasty." The "Double Ninth Festival" here refers to the sky, not to the festival. Cao Pi, Emperor Wen of the Wei Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period, clearly wrote about the Double Ninth Festival banquet in his "Book of Nine Days and Zhong Yao": "As the years go by, the ninth day of the ninth month suddenly returns. Nine is the yang number, and the sun and the moon correspond to each other. The name is popular because it is suitable for a long time, so it is used to enjoy banquets and high gatherings. "
The Double Ninth Festival has been mentioned as early as the "Chu Ci" in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan wrote in his "Yuan Yuan": "Gathering on the Double Ninth Festival, we entered the imperial palace and visited the Qing capital at the beginning of Xun Dynasty." The "Double Ninth Festival" here refers to the sky, not to the festival. Cao Pi, Emperor Wen of the Wei Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period, clearly wrote about the Double Ninth Festival banquet in his "Book of Nine Days and Zhong Yao": "As the years go by, the ninth day of the ninth month suddenly returns. Nine is the yang number, and the sun and the moon correspond to each other. The common people praised his name, thinking that it would last a long time, so he used it to enjoy banquets and high gatherings." Tao Yuanming, a scholar in the Jin Dynasty, said in the preface to the poem "Nine Days of Leisure": "I love the name of Jiu. The garden is full of autumn chrysanthemums, but I hold my mash in my hands, and I fill the air with Jiuhua and express my thoughts in words." Both chrysanthemums and wine are mentioned here. Probably during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the practice of drinking wine and appreciating chrysanthemums on the Double Ninth Festival began. In the Tang Dynasty, Double Ninth Festival was officially designated as a folk festival.
In the Ming Dynasty, on the Double Ninth Festival in September, everyone in the palace would eat flower cakes together to celebrate, and the emperor would personally go to the Long Live Mountain to climb up to clear his autumn aspirations. This custom has been passed down to the Qing Dynasty.