What are the customs of Yantai’s Double Ninth Festival?

Eating Double Ninth Cake

It is connected with the custom of climbing mountains and eating Chongyang Cake. As a holiday food, the homonym Gaohe cake was first used to celebrate the autumn harvest. Hello, it was never intended to be the folk auspicious meaning of food. After eating the cake, you can climb higher step by step.

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Double Ninth Day has always existed, and the custom of rewarding chrysanthemums makes it an ancient custom, also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival. The ninth month of the lunar calendar is called the chrysanthemum month. A chrysanthemum festival is held during the festival, and crowds of people come to enjoy the chrysanthemums. Since the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it has become a fashion for the Chongyang Party to drink, appreciate chrysanthemums and write poems. According to the ancient custom of the Han people, chrysanthemum is a symbol of longevity.

Drinking chrysanthemum wine

On the Double Ninth Festival, it is a traditional Chinese custom to drink chrysanthemum wine. Chrysanthemum wine was regarded as the "auspicious wine" on the Double Ninth Festival in ancient times and must be drank to eliminate disasters and bless it.

Han chrysanthemum wine. During the Wei Dynasty, Cao Pi presented chrysanthemums to Yao on the Double Ninth Festival, wishing him longevity. In the Jin Dynasty, Ge Hong pointed out in Nanyang and Henan Mountains that "Baopuzi people drank the original chrysanthemums and longevity because of the sweet valley water." Emperor Jianwen said in the "Picking Chrysanthemum Chapter" stage that he carried a basket to pick chrysanthemum beads. Towards the beginning of the pure dipping of "Luo Shiji", chrysanthemums were picked to make wine. Until the Ming and Qing Dynasties, chrysanthemum wine was still popular, and it was still recorded in Ming Gaolian's "Zunsheng 8 Notes" and was a popular fitness drink.

Corus officinalis is also very popular in ancient times, so it is also called Dogwood Festival. Dogwood is used for medicine, wine, and diseases of self-cultivation. Dogwood and hairpin chrysanthemum are very common in the Tang Dynasty. It has a strong fragrance, can repel insects and remove dampness, and can eliminate food accumulation and cure cold and heat. Folks believe that September 9th is also the day when people are troubled by each day, so people like to wear dogwood during the Double Ninth Festival, so it is also called dogwood. To ward off evil spirits and seek Kyrgyzstan as a "ward of evil spirits."