There is a custom of climbing mountains on the Double Ninth Festival. Autumn is coming, cold air is heading south, rain is decreasing, and the weather is fine. In September and autumn, the air is crisp and the temperature is neither too cold nor too hot, which is just suitable for traveling. Climbing high and looking far in this season can achieve the purpose of strengthening the body and eliminating all diseases. The ancients had the custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival for a long time.
For example, in the Tang Dynasty, Wang Wei wrote in the book "Living in the Mountain and Thinking of Shandong Brothers": Being a stranger in a foreign land, I miss my relatives twice every festive season. When I think of my brothers' bodies climbing high, I will feel a little regret for not being able to reach me. There is also a saying in Nanjing, "Come to Niutou in spring, Qixia in Qiu Lai", which means to go hiking in Niushou Mountain in spring and climb Qixia Mountain in autumn.
Ancient chrysanthemum wine is specially brewed for the first and second double ninth festivals. On September 9th, pick the newly opened chrysanthemums and a little green branches and leaves, mix them with grain for brewing, and then use them together to make wine, and put them into the next September 9th for drinking. It is said that drinking this wine can prolong life. This is a festive season, autumn is crisp, chrysanthemums are in full bloom, and the windows are golden.
In addition to climbing the mountain and inserting dogwood, relatives and friends also invited each other to drink chrysanthemum wine and enjoy chrysanthemums together. They really had a good time. Poets, in particular, admire chrysanthemums, drink wine and recite poems as a reward, leaving many good sentences for future generations. Chrysanthemum contains health ingredients. Drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival is a traditional custom in China. Chrysanthemum wine, in ancient times, was regarded as "auspicious wine" that must be drunk on the Double Ninth Festival to pray for good luck and eliminate disasters.