Aside from wine, you may also see a lot more chrysanthemum desserts and Chung Yeung cakes during this time – the latter is a steamed rice flour confection usually decorated with jujube, chestnuts, and almonds.
So Chinese people have a tradition of having feasts on this day and consuming food and drinks that will help with achieving longevity, such as chrysanthemum wine.
In order to evade the catastrophe, Huan needed to tell his family to collect zhuyu plant and wear it on their arms, and then climb up on a mountain and drink chrysanthemum wine on that day.
Ever since then, Chinese people have been following the tradition of climbing up high, drinking chrysanthemum wine, and wearing zhuyu plants on the Double Ninth Festival for the past 2,000 years.
Then some yellow chrysanthemums blossomed on the plant, and when they had opened all their petals and reached perfection, they gave way to a lot of white floral balls spotted with crimson—a flower Trot had never seen before.
There were chrysanthemums planted along one edge of the parking lot, and every time I drove past those flowers that fall, I would sob and wail in my car.
The first person who purportedly enjoyed chrysanthemum and drank chrysanthemum wine on the Chongyang Festival was the poet Tao Yuanming, who lived during the Jin Dynasty.