Why do you hang wormwood on Dragon Boat Festival?

Hanging wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival has the effects of keeping safe, ward off evil spirits and preventing mosquitoes.

1, keep safe and ward off evil spirits: There is a reason to hang wormwood, calamus (Pujian), pomegranate and garlic at the entrance of Dragon Boat Festival. Usually mugwort leaves, banyan trees and calamus are tied into a bundle with red paper and then inserted or hung on the door. Because Acorus calamus is the head of five pistils in the sky, symbolizing evil sword, because the growing season and shape are regarded as "the spirit of a hundred yin", and the leaves are sword-shaped and can be inserted at the door to ward off evil spirits.

2, anti-mosquito: wormwood will emit a fragrant smell, which can effectively repel mosquitoes.

3, sterilization and disease prevention: Artemisia argyi is a blind Chinese medicine, which can treat irregular menstruation, cold pain, eczema and so on. Igniting moxa sticks made of mugwort leaves and fumigating human acupoints can protect health and cure diseases.

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Other customs of Dragon Boat Festival

1, Dragon Boat Race: It is said that Chu people used dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body. Wang Zuokun said that when the ancients competed in dragon boats, they set fish, duck and iron marks at the end. Whoever gets these three points will win the third place in the championship. In order to let the contestants see the finish line from a distance, the ancients also tied bows with brocade on three labels.

2. Eat Udon Cake: The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching the summer solstice, and the weather is getting hotter and hotter, bacteria are growing, and people are prone to heatstroke and illness, so the ancients ate Udon Cake to get rid of illness and strengthen their health. The five poisons refer to scorpions, toads, geckos, centipedes and snakes. The ancients put their own images on cakes, and the fillings were also "five fillings": cherry, water chestnut, mulberry, apricot and glutinous rice lotus root. It is said that eating poisonous cakes can enhance resistance, kill insects and avoid disasters.

3. Order realgar wine: Old Beijingers still have the custom of ordering realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival. They will write the word "Wang" on the boy's forehead and point five dots on the girl's head. People think that using realgar wine to smash mosquitoes and flies to ward off evil spirits and avoid harm.

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