In the process of historical continuation, the Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival in China, which combines many folk customs and cultural connotations. Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and looking far, watching chrysanthemums, picking Chinese herbal medicines, holding banquets for the elderly, eating double ninth cake, keeping in good health with medicinal liquor, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities.
According to historical records, Chongyang cake, also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake and five-color cake, is made randomly. It was the original intention of the ancients to make cakes at dawn on September 9. The child put a cake on his head and said a word in his mouth, wishing the child all the best.
Local custom
Guangzhou celebrates the Double Ninth Festival, and people climb Baiyun Mountain to enjoy autumn fitness. Wuchuan Double Ninth Festival, a high-standard banquet, a banquet to respect the elderly. In Huaiji County, Chongyang is regarded as the occasion of Yuan Di's enlightenment. Yangjiang will fly kites during the Double Ninth Festival.
Nanjing people chiseled the five-color paper into an inclined plane shape, and even decorated it as a flag and inserted it in the court. Eat a kind of pasta called "camel hoof" at the Double Ninth Festival in Changzhou County. Eat Chongyang cake and Jiupin soup in Wuxi Double Ninth Festival.
Shaoxing Prefecture worships each other on the Double Ninth Festival, and Tonglu County prepares pigs and sheep as ancestors on September 9th, which is called autumn festival. At the same time, zongzi are tied up and given to each other on the Double Ninth Festival, which is called Chongyang Zongzi.
Tongling county regards the ninth Double Ninth Festival as the Dragon and Candle Festival to welcome the mountain gods. Cutting bamboo and playing with horses is said to drive away the plague. In recent years, Hefei Thermal Power has organized the theme activities of condolences for the Double Ninth Festival.
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