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What festivals do you mean?
Among them, the festival refers to the "Double Ninth Festival". China people's complex of thinking twice about their relatives during the festive season, which has gone through a thousand years of time and space, is still timeless and memorable.

The moral of the Double Ninth Festival is respect for the elderly and reunion. The Double Ninth Festival symbolizes auspiciousness, happiness and light. The Double Ninth Festival is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. In ancient times, nine was a very noble number, which was homophonic with the Chinese character "nine" and expressed people's good wishes for longevity. Now the Double Ninth Festival is designated as the Festival for the Elderly, which makes people respect, respect and love the elderly.

On the Double Ninth Festival, people go out to climb mountains together, and there are all kinds of outdoor activities, such as enjoying chrysanthemums, inserting dogwood, eating double ninth cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine and so on. ?

According to Xijing Miscellanies, there was a custom of "eating Peng bait on September 9" in Han Dynasty, which was the original Double Ninth Festival cake. Cake is homophonic with high tone, and eating cake has a beautiful meaning, so it is favored by people. As a kind of holiday food, Chongyang Flower Cake was originally to celebrate the harvest of autumn grain. Later, people had the auspicious meaning of going up the mountain to eat cakes and taking steps to climb the mountain.