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What food does the Double Ninth Festival mainly eat?
1, drink chrysanthemum wine. Drinking and enjoying chrysanthemums is a reserved item of the ancients in the Double Ninth Festival. Please note that "just looking at chrysanthemums" is not just looking. The ancients also soaked chrysanthemums in wine to drink. It is not difficult to make this chrysanthemum wine. Adding glutinous rice and distiller's yeast to chrysanthemum can make a jar of fresh chrysanthemum wine. It tastes cool and sweet, and has the effects of nourishing the liver, improving eyesight, strengthening the brain, eliminating paralysis and delaying aging.

2, eat Chongyang cake. Chongyang cake, also known as "supporting cake", "flower cake", "hair cake" or "chrysanthemum cake", is a kind of cake made of dough, with dates, almonds, pine nuts and chestnuts as auxiliary materials, which is a dessert and salty meat. Old people will not have backache after eating Chongyang cake, so they should be given Chongyang cake every year to make them strong and energetic. In the custom of Double Ninth Festival, eating Double Ninth Festival cake is an essential item, because "cake" and "high" are homophonic, which means that the living standard is rising step by step and symbolizes the happiness and good luck of the family.

3. Jujube. Jujube has the functions of calming the heart, tranquilizing the mind, improving intelligence and brain, stimulating appetite, removing fishy smell, resisting allergy and improving immunity. It can also prevent and treat hypertension, osteoporosis and anemia, and is a good tonic for the elderly in winter.