What are the main activities of the Double Ninth Festival?

Double Ninth Festival, also known as Double Ninth Festival, Sunbathing Autumn Festival and "Treading Autumn", is a traditional festival in China. Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes activities such as traveling to enjoy autumn, climbing high and looking far, watching chrysanthemums, planting dogwood all over, eating double ninth cake and drinking chrysanthemum wine. Every year, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, together with New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Zhongyuan Festival, is called the four traditional ancestor worship festivals in China.

The custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival has a long history. According to the existing literature, as early as the Warring States Period and the Double Ninth Festival, people had the custom of climbing mountains and drinking chrysanthemum wine. The activities of the Double Ninth Festival are rich and colorful, generally including sightseeing, climbing high and overlooking, enjoying chrysanthemums, planting dogwood everywhere, eating double ninth cake and drinking chrysanthemum wine. In ancient times, there was the custom of climbing on the Double Ninth Festival, so it was also called "Climbing Festival".