What are the customs of the cold dew solar terms?

The customs of cold dew solar terms include eating Chongyang cake, inserting dogwood, enjoying chrysanthemums and climbing mountains. Cold dew belongs to the fifth solar term in autumn, so it is similar to the custom of Double Ninth Festival.

1, eat double ninth festival cake.

Double Ninth Cake is the representative food of Double Ninth Festival. Because "cake" and "height" are homophonic, the ancients thought that "everything is high", so climbing to eat cake on the Double Ninth Festival means rising step by step.

2. Insert Cornus officinalis.

It was popular in the Tang Dynasty. The ancients thought that inserting Evodia rutaecarpa into the Double Ninth Festival could take refuge and eliminate disasters, or put it on the arm, or put Cornus officinalis in a sachet and put it on the head. Most of them are worn by women and children, and some places are also worn by men.

3. Enjoy chrysanthemums.

In the folk, people also call September of the lunar calendar "Chrysanthemum Moon". On the Double Ninth Festival, chrysanthemum frost is in full bloom, and chrysanthemum appreciation has become a major part of the festival.

4. Climb high.

The Double Ninth Festival is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, which is also called "Shuangyang Festival" among the people. Wang Wei, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote in "Thinking of Shandong Brothers in the Mountain Festival": "Being in a foreign land, I miss my relatives twice every festive season. I know from a distance where my brother climbed, and there is one person missing from the dogwood. " This poem tells us that by the Tang Dynasty, it had become a custom to "climb the mountain in September" and "plant dogwoods everywhere" in the Central Plains.