Chrysanthemum Wine on Double Ninth Festival

On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month comes the Double Ninth Festival, when people in all dynasties will climb mountains, appreciate chrysanthemums and drink chrysanthemum wine. The custom has lasted till today. According to Compendium of Materia Medica, frequent chrysanthemum wine drinking will help "cure headache, improve eyesight and hearing and remove all diseases". It's obvious that the drinking customs in big festivals in China is also deeply related to scientific health preservation.