On September 9 in Xianghe County, Hebei Province, families with in-laws send gifts to each other, known as "chasing the festival". In Yongpingfu, the weather of Chongyang is used to determine the future rain or shine. If it rains on the Chongyang Festival, it will also rain on these days. As there are no mountains in Dianzhou County, many county residents go up to the city tower to climb high on the Chongyang Festival.
Shandong Changyi northern people eat spicy radish soup on the Chongyang Festival, there is a proverb: "Drink the radish soup, the whole family does not suffer". Jancheng folk said the Chongyang Festival for the God of Fortune's birthday, home cooking burnt cake sacrifice God of Fortune. In Zouping, Fan Zhongyan is worshipped in Chongyang, and in the old days, dye houses and wine houses also worshipped the god of cylinder on September 9th. Tengzhou married less than three years of daughter, avoid going back to her mother's home for the festival, there is a "home for the Chung Yeung, death of her mother-in-law," said.
Shanxi Xixiang County Chrysanthemum Festival, friends and relatives to chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum cake gifts. Scholars and scholars appreciate each other with poetry and wine. It is said that women can cure heartache by picking cornelian cherry in their mouths on this day. Shaanbei over Chongyang in the evening, the day is a full day of harvesting, playing the field. At night, the moon over the treetops, people love to enjoy buckwheat boiled mutton, to eat dinner, people go out of their homes in twos and threes, climbed up the nearby hills, lit a fire, talk about heaven and earth, to be the chickens crowing before they go home. The night hiking, many people are picking a few handfuls of wild chrysanthemums, go home and inserted in the daughter's head, in order to avoid the evil spirits.
The Chongyang Festival, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, people with five-color paper chiseled into a diagonal shape, linked into a flag, inserted in the court. Changzhou County Chanyang Festival to eat a noodle called "camel's feet". Wuxi County Chrysanthemum Festival to eat the sun cake, nine products soup.
Shanghai Yuyuan chrysanthemums in the Chrysanthemum Festival, to the new, noble, rare and different three scores to determine the high and low.
Shaoxing, Zhejiang, visit each other on the Chongyang Festival, unless friends and relatives have a funeral, only to the spirit of crying. Tonglu County, September 9 to prepare pigs and goats to ancestors, known as the autumn festival. At the same time also in the Chongyang Festival tied zongzi, gift each other, known as Chongyang zongzi. Ancient Jiangsu and Zhejiang, folk in the Chongyang have climbed high custom, so the Chongyang Festival is also called "climb high festival". According to legend, this custom began in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, there were many poems written by literati, most of which were about the custom of Chung Yeung Festival; Du Fu's "Ascending to a Higher Plateau" is a famous piece of writing about the Chung Yeung ascent to a higher plateau. There is no standardized rule on where to go, but generally it is to climb high mountains and towers.
Chrysanthemum Cake
Dexing County, Jiangxi Province, September 9, cutting late rice.
Tongling County, Anhui Province, takes the ninth day of Chongyang as a dragon candle meeting to welcome the mountain gods. Cutting bamboo horses for theater is said to expel the plague.
Wuchang County, Hubei Province in the Chung Yeung Day brewing, it is said that this brewed wine is the most clean, and long hiding not bad. In Yingcheng County, the Chrysanthemum Festival is the date for returning wishes, and even families worship the god of Tianzu in Fangsha on this day.
Fujian Changting County, farmers picking fields in the beans and gifts, known as the Mao Bean Festival. Haicheng County Chanyang Festival kite flying as a play, known as the "Wind Crew". Putian people to Chongyang ancestor worship than more than the Qingming, so there is a custom to March for the small Qingming, the ninth for the big Qingming said. Due to the Putian coast, the ninth day of the ninth month is also the anniversary of Mazu's ascension to heaven, the townspeople go to the Mazu Temple in Meizhou or the Tin Hau Ancestral Shrine and Palace in the harbor to offer sacrifices and seek blessings.
Guangdong Lianchuan, Chung Yeung boys and girls are to the city outside the gathering to answer the song, the state people watch. Nanxiong September 9, invited Maoshan Taoist priests to build Wangmu will, want to seek heir of young women will come to participate. Yangjiang City, Chongyang Festival release paper kites, and tie rattan bow on it, in mid-air sound very loud and clear. Lingao County people get up early on the Chongyang Festival, everyone shouted "catch the cat", as a good omen of peace and prosperity.
Huaiji County, Guangxi to the Chung Yeung for Yuan Di Dao of the hour. Men and women, young and old, out of the city, Sai God reward, all with cannons. Longan County on September 9, let the cattle and sheep to forage for food on their own, as the saying goes: "September 9, cattle and sheep to keep their own".
Sichuan Nanxi County readers in the old days in Longtengshan Censhan building gathering to commemorate the poet Cen Sen, known as the "Cen Guild". The old folk custom, before and after the Chongyang to glutinous rice steamed wine, mash. As the saying goes: "Chrysanthemum steamed wine, sweet and savory".
Shanxi Jinnan region since ancient times, there is a September 9, the traditional habit of heights. The festival has become a feast for those who want to see the great mountains and rivers, and admire the famous monuments. To this day, the folk recite the "Qiankun open win concept, my generation together high", "the east wind can not stay, Ran up the peak", "September Xin new sky, three farmers celebrate the fall" and other famous words.
Kaifeng, Henan Province, has been holding the China Kaifeng Chrysanthemum Flower Festival once a year since 1983. Children in Qingfeng County release paper kites as a play on Chongyang Festival.