Question 2: Why do you hang moxa sticks on the Dragon Boat Festival? Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of Han nationality in China. The essential activities on this day have gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood, wormwood leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica, drinking realgar wine, making fragrant troughs, sticking five poisons, sticking stickers, putting yellow tobacco seeds and eating twelve reds. It is said that eating zongzi and dragon boat racing is to commemorate Qu Yuan, so after liberation, the Dragon Boat Festival was named "Poet's Day" to commemorate Qu Yuan. As for hanging calamus, wormwood leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome and angelica dahurica, drinking realgar wine, it is said that it is to ward off evil spirits. Nowadays, many people buy Dr. Ai's moxa sticks for moxibustion at home during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Question 3: Why should wormwood be hung on the door during the Dragon Boat Festival? What's the moral? The Origin of "Inserting wormwood" in Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. By the time of the Yellow Scarf Uprising in the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao rebels attacked the Central Plains, that is, the Dragon Boat Festival. Local officials then released the wind: "Huang Chao shook his knife over the mountain and his head fell to the ground!" Mobilizing people to flee their homes is to win Huang Chao. In fact, in order to control the expansion trend of the rebels, it is impossible for the rebels to contact with the people.
In a family in the Central Plains, all the men have gone out, and there is only one woman and two children at home. One child is her own and the other is her sister-in-law's orphan. Her own child has just learned to walk, and her sister-in-law's orphan is one year older than her own child. The woman ran away with two children and her sister-in-law's orphan, but let her toddler walk, but she fell behind. Not far away, I met a man in yellow and asked, "Why doesn't sister-in-law let the older child go and the younger one?" The woman told the truth, and the man in yellow was very moved. She said, "Your fearless loyalty in a crisis has broken Huang Chao's knife, and Huang Chao can't take your head. In fact, as long as you insert wormwood in front of your house, it means that your family is loyal and Huang Chao can't help you. " Then he suddenly disappeared. The woman thought it was the fairy's advice, so she went home and did as she was told, and told the refugees to insert wormwood along the way to break Huang Chao's knife. Therefore, women are usually kind and do more good deeds. Many people think that there is no need to "go to Huang Chao" to grow wormwood at home and spend the Wuhai Festival at home.
Sure enough, when the rebels crossed the border, they saw people with wormwood at home, and no one bothered them. Doctors stationed in the army also treat people and ask them about their sufferings. At that time, the story of women's meeting with immortals spread all over the country, and ordinary people stopped "going to Huang Chao" one after another, planting wormwood for the Dragon Boat Festival and performing loyalty for women.
In fact, the man in yellow is a forward counselor of the Huang Chao Rebel Army, and he is skilled in martial arts. Wherever the rebels go, there is no village, and the rebels are alone. Knowing that something was wrong, the counselor turned into plain clothes, looked for the reason alone and met a woman. Suddenly disappeared, jumped into a tree and hid. The counselor did a little trick, which not only broke the government's: "Huang Chao waved his knife over the mountain and his head fell to the ground!" " Rumors won the support of the people for the rebel army and made the people accumulate virtue and do good deeds, so the world inherited this tradition and became the custom of "inserting wormwood" on the Dragon Boat Festival today.
Liuhe is a Hakka, most of whom moved to Liuhe from the Central Plains. Therefore, most people keep the custom of "going to Huang Chao" and "planting wormwood".
Question 4: What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival? Why do you hang wormwood on Dragon Boat Festival? 1. The Dragon Boat Festival has the following customs:
1, eat zongzi
In ancient times, people in Jingchu would cook glutinous rice or steam rice cakes and throw them into the river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in order to sacrifice Qu Yuan who threw himself into the river. Fearing that fish would eat them, people came up with the idea of wrapping rice with rice leaves and colored silk. Later, eating zongzi became the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi is made of glutinous rice, yellow rice and jujube, commonly known as "Mill Zongzi".
Step 2 hang wormwood
During the Dragon Boat Festival, people will hang wormwood or calamus in front of the courtyard and under the eaves. Mosquitoes are afraid of this smell and can repel mosquitoes.
Because the leaves of Acorus calamus are shaped like swords, the ancients called them "water swords", saying that they can "cut all evils". People will carve calamus into figures such as "little people" and "small gourds" and hang them around children's necks for good luck. It will also be hung on the lintel to exorcise evil spirits.
3. Dragon Boat Race
Legend has it that Chu people used dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river to prevent the fish from eating 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.
4. Eat five poisonous cakes
The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching the summer solstice, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, bacteria are breeding, and people are prone to heatstroke and illness, so the ancients ate Wudu cake to get rid of illness and strengthen their health. It is said that eating poisonous cakes can enhance resistance, kill insects and avoid disasters.
Step 5 hit a hundred herbs
In ancient times, when people arrived at the Dragon Boat Festival, they would go to the suburbs to collect herbs together and compete for grass on the way, which gradually formed a custom. Two people who participate in the game will stand opposite each other with grass, each holding both ends of a grass or flower stem. After the game started, the two grasses hooked together, and each side pulled the grass in its own direction. Whoever breaks the other side's grass or flower stem loses.
Step 6 collect five poisons
During the Dragon Boat Festival, girls should put "tapirs" on their chests. It is said that this kind of zongzi-like cloth sewn with colored silk thread can ward off evil spirits. There is a gourd hanging around the boy's neck. There is a pattern of "Five Poisons" on the gourd, which means "collecting" five poisons.
7. stick gourd flower
Because gourd is the homonym of "Fulu". In ancient times, people would cut red fringed paper into gourds with the pattern of "Five Poisons" on it, which was called "Gourd Flower". They posted it on May 1st, took it off at noon on May 5th and threw it away, which was called "disaster throwing".
8. Order realgar wine
There is also the custom of realgar wine on the Dragon Boat Festival. The boy writes the word "Wang" on his forehead and the girl points five points on his head. It is believed that the mosquitoes and flies should be broken with realgar wine to ward off evil spirits and avoid harm.
The second is to hang wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival to ward off evil spirits. Mosquitoes are afraid of this smell and can repel mosquitoes.
There is a folk proverb that says, "Willows are inserted in Qingming Festival and Ai is inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, puts calamus and moxa sticks between their eyebrows and hangs them in the class. Acorus calamus, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Liu Hua, Garlic and Dragon Boat Flower are made into human or tiger shapes, which are called Ai Ren and Ai Hu. It is made into garlands and decorations, beautiful and fragrant, and women compete to wear it to ward off evil spirits.
It can be seen that the ancients inserted wormwood leaves and calamus to have a certain disease prevention effect. Dragon Boat Festival is also a "health festival" handed down from ancient times. On this day, people sweep the courtyard, hang mugwort leaves, hang calamus, sprinkle realgar wine, drink realgar wine, stir up turbidity, remove rot, sterilize and prevent diseases. These activities also reflect the fine traditions of the Chinese nation.
Question 5: Why is wormwood hung on the Dragon Boat Festival? As early as the pre-Qin period, people thought that May was a poisonous month and the fifth was a poisonous day. According to legend, on the fifth day of May, evil spirits prevailed and five poisons appeared at the same time. This day is called poison day. People should drink herbal tea, take a bath with mugwort leaves and tie a five-color rope to avoid poisoning. Therefore, on the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, people often regard inserting mugwort leaves and calamus as one of the important contents of the festival. Every family cleans the courtyard, sticks Acorus calamus and Folium Artemisiae Argyi at the door eyebrow and hangs them in the hall, which can prevent mosquitoes, ward off evil spirits and get rid of diseases.
Question 6: Why is wormwood hung on the Dragon Boat Festival? It is understood that wormwood is a kind of herbal medicine that can cure diseases. Inserting it at the door represents blessing and can make the owner healthy. China has been a medicinal plant since ancient times. Moxibustion in acupuncture uses wormwood as the main component and burns it at acupoints to treat diseases. The legend that wormwood can exorcise evil spirits has been circulating for a long time, mainly because of its medical function.
Question 7: Why do you hang wormwood, eat palm seed and wear five-color lines during the Dragon Boat Festival? The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival mainly include: eating zongzi, inserting wormwood or calamus on the door to exorcise evil spirits, tying long life wisps, drinking realgar wine or disinfection, and racing dragon boats. Zongzi is also called "Jiao Shu" and "Zongzi". The former is named after its angular shape and glutinous rice inside, while the latter is likely to cook rice with a bamboo tube. Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival was very popular in Wei and Jin Dynasties. This kind of food is eaten on the Dragon Boat Festival and the summer solstice every year.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, people wear sachets and colored ropes, which are said to mean to ward off evil spirits and plague. Actually, they are used to decorate the inner head. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine. It is wrapped in silk cloth, full of fragrance, and then tied into a string with five-color silk thread, with different shapes, exquisite and lovely. Multicolored rope is a bracelet made of ropes of various colors!
Question 8: Why is wormwood hung on the Dragon Boat Festival? As early as the pre-Qin period, people thought that May was a poisonous month and the fifth was a poisonous day. According to legend, on the fifth day of May, evil spirits prevailed and five poisons appeared at the same time. This day is called poison day. People should drink herbal tea, take a bath with mugwort leaves and tie a five-color rope to avoid poisoning. Therefore, on the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, people often regard inserting mugwort leaves and calamus as one of the important contents of the festival. Every family cleans the courtyard, sticks Acorus calamus and Folium Artemisiae Argyi at the door eyebrow and hangs them in the hall, which can prevent mosquitoes, ward off evil spirits and get rid of diseases.
Question 9: Why is wormwood hung on the Dragon Boat Festival? Which country and province do you come from? Indeed, there will be dragon boat races and steamed buns on the Dragon Boat Festival. Unfortunately, I have never heard of the custom of "hanging wormwood"!
Question 10: Why do you hang wormwood and calamus at the gate of Dragon Boat Festival? The most standard custom of Dragon Boat Festival is to eat zongzi. On this day, the ancients would drink realgar wine and hang wormwood and calamus at the door, which actually has certain health significance behind it. Around the Dragon Boat Festival is the high incidence season of infectious diseases in a year. Wise ancients used diet, hanging moxa and other behaviors to achieve the effect of exorcising evil spirits and avoiding epidemic diseases and protect their health. Aromatic plants, such as wormwood, calamus, etc., have the effect of expelling insects and also have the purpose of preventing diseases. So up to now, there are still many people hanging wormwood and calamus at home during the Dragon Boat Festival.