Talking about the Double-Ninth Festival, a mythical legend is worth mentioning, which is about Fei Changfang, a minor official of the Western Han Dynasty. One day, an aged medicine seller came to Fei’s city, rent a small shop and opened a drug store. He hung a teapot by the door and jumped into it when the business was done. No one in the city knew the secret except Fei Changfang, who accidentally took a peek from the upstairs. He was more than curious and went straight to the old man on the following day.

It turned out that the man was an immortal who was banished from the celestial palace for his mistakes, and now it was due to come back. Excited as the immortal was, he took Fei with him into the teapot. How amazing! A grandeur jade palace hid in the pot with wine bottles hanging everywhere. The aged man and Fei Changfang drank the fine wine and chatted for a long time. Fei wanted to pay visits to the immortals with him, but felt hard to forsake his family. Therefore, the old man cut down a bamboo pole, turned it into Fei’s shape and hung it at the back of his house. His family thought he hanged himself and burst into tears. On seeing this, he went away with the old man.

After ten years’ study and practice, Fei Changfang returned with the magic power of curing various diseases, exorcism and traveling thousands of miles in a single day. During that time, a man called Hengjing was learning after Fei Changfang. One day, Fei told him that a disaster would occur at his home on the ninth day of ninth lunar month, which could only be avoided if he would tir a red cloth bag to his arm with dogwood braches in it, climb a high mountain and drink chrysanthemum wine. When the day came, Hengjing and his family did all as he was told to. On returning home that evening, they found all of their domestic animals dead. Since then, people all climb mountains, hang dogwood branches and drink chrysanthemum wine on that day every year. The custom has been past down for more than two thousand years.