On the Double Ninth Festival, people will eat Double Ninth Gao (or Cake). In Chinese, gao (cake) has the same pronunciation with gao (height). People do so just to hope progress in everything they are engaged in. There is no fixed ways for the Double Ninth Cake, but super cakes will have as many as nine layers, looking like a tower.
重阳节这天，人们会吃重阳糕。在中文中，糕和高度的高同音。人们吃重阳糕是希望自己能有所进步。做重阳糕没有什么特定的方法，但是一个好的重阳糕一定会有很多层，就像一座宝塔一样。

Double Ninth cake is also known as flower cake, chrysanthemum cake and five color cake. There is no fixed method of making it. It falls into three classes: crude flower cake, fine flower cake, and gold ingot-like flower cake. Double Ninth cakes are made not only for families, but also as a gift for relatives and friends and a treat for married daughters coming home. We may as well make Double Ninth cakes ourselves this Double Ninth Festival. It is very fun. The recipe is as follows.
重阳糕又称花糕、菊糕、五色糕，制无定法，较为随意，有“糙花糕”“细花糕”和“金钱花糕”。重阳糕不仅自家食用，还馈送亲友，称“送糕”；又请出嫁女儿回家食糕，称“迎宁”。今年的重阳节，我们不妨自己来亲手做重阳糕，增添节日的乐趣。方法如下：

Major ingredients: flour
原料：主科：上白面粉。

Other ingredients: red and green fine long shreds (200g for each), and glutinous rice wine (200g)
配料：红、绿丝各50克，糯米酒汁200克。

Condiments: Sweetened bean paste (300g), white sugar (500g) and lard
(200g).
调料：洗沙300克，白糖500克，熟猪油200克。

Recipe:
制法：

First, put the flour into a basin, add warm water and the glutinous rice wine, mix them, and let it ferment; when honeycomb-like things appear, add white sugar (200g) and mix it together with chopsticks.
(1)面粉入盆，加温水，兑入甜酒汁，抄匀拌和，使其发酵，至出现蜂窝状时，加白糖(200克)，用筷子搅匀。

Second, dilute the sweetened bean paste with hot water, melt white sugar (300g) with hot water, and mince the red and green fine long shreds.
(2)洗沙用热水搅稀。白糖(300克)用热水化开。红绿丝切成粒。

Third, spread the lard at the bottom of a steamer, spread 1/3 of the flour paste prepared in the first procedure at the bottom of a steamer, brush the top of the flour paste with melted white sugar and diluted bean paste; spread another 1/3 of the flour paste on the first 1/3, brush the top of it with melted white sugar and diluted bean paste; and spread the last 1/3, cover the steamer and steam it. After it is steamed, brush it with melted white sugar, and scatter the red and green shreds on the top. After it is cooler, cut it into angular shapes, and the Double Ninth cakes are done.
(3)在蒸笼底部抹油，用1/3面糊摊开笼底刷上一层糖水、洗沙泥；再将1/3的面糊摊上，再刷一层糖水、洗沙泥；再将剩余的面摊上加盖，上火蒸熟后，面上刷上糖水，撒上红、绿丝，稍晾凉切成棱形块即成。