In China, today is the September 9th according to the Chinese lunar calendar,
so it is called the Double Ninth Festival, which is also called Aged People’s
Day. In the Book of Changes, the number of “six” is called the yin number and
the number of “nine” is called the yang number. There this day has two “nine”
and called Chong Yang Festival.
On this day, usually, family members will climb the mountain together and
enjoy the beautiful chrysanthemum. Besides, Chinese people have the tradition of
drinking chrysanthemum wine.
It was already prevailed in Han and Wei dynasties period to brew the
chrysanthemum wine in China. Chrysanthemum is one of the flower loved most by
Chinese people and it is also called the “longevity flower”, because the
chrysanthemum blooms when almost other flowers wither.
Tao Yuanming, the famous poet of Jin Dynasty, had written that “wine can
dispel various diseases and chrysanthemum can prevent from getting old.”
Gradually, drinking chrysanthemum wine becomes one tradition of Chinese people
on this day.
Actually, chrysanthemum wine is made of chrysanthemum, sticky rice and
distiller’s yeast. It is featured by the cool, refreshing and sweet flavor. And
it has the functions of nourishing the liver, improving the eye sight,
strengthening the brain and delaying the growing old.
Besides, the chrysanthemum have the functions of treating dizziness, lowering
the blood pressure, losing weight and benefiting the blood.
Do you want to know how to brew the magical chrysanthemum wine? I will tell
you now
1. Remove the bases of the dry flowers, and wash the flowers up and then make
them dry again
2. Soak the flowers into the mild grain wine
3. Wait for about 2-3 days, then you can enjoy the delicious and magical
chrysanthemum wine.
If it is convenient for you, you can also add the rehmannia, angelica
sinensis and medlar into the wine at the same, which has good effects on
treating dizziness, light-headedness, fatigue and dreaminess.
