Jinxian apricot powder, ruby sea willow room.

* * * If you win today, you will be filled with fragrant herbs.

From Ouyang Xiu's 20 Dragon Boat Festival poems "Four Years of Jiayou". In fact, it is not ancient cosmetics, but flowers in the game of weeding on the Dragon Boat Festival described by Ouyang Xiu. "* * * fight" in the poem means fighting grass. Because of the writing technique of Song poetry, it should be two kinds of flowers: fairy apricot and sea pomegranate.

Fairy apricots should be fairy apricots. In the poem "Spring Day" written by Shangguan Yi in Tang Dynasty, he said, "Flowers are light and butterflies are chaotic, and dense leaves are singing to the emperor and daughter.

Sea willow is camellia. Also known as sea pomegranate. Ancient poetry refers to camellia. Sui Jiang's poem "Mountain Court Spring Day" reads: "Willow on the bank of the river, willow on the pool of red sea." Tang Li Bai's poem "Ode to Pomegranate in the East Window of a Neighbor's Daughter": "Under the East Window of Lu's Daughter, there are few pomegranates in the world." Wang Qi quoted Tai Ping Guang Ji: "Silla is a sea red and pomegranate." Bird Kejiu, a flower? "Summer Scenery" divertimento: "The durian fire on the sea is strong, and the day lily is golden." Yin Mingtang's "Biography" said: "The green grass runs along the ridge, and the sea willow is half open."

According to Zonggu's Record of Jingchu's Years Old, fighting a hundred herbs is a unique seasonal game of the Dragon Boat Festival (years old and beautiful): "Building a house to enjoy music, fighting a hundred herbs, and wrapping five silks in the Dragon Boat Festival." ) After the Song Dynasty, grass-mowing was not limited to the Dragon Boat Festival. However, tracing back to the source, the Hundred Herbs War and the Dragon Boat Festival are quite related. The ancients thought May was an evil month, and May 5th was an evil day, because in the hot summer, poisonous snake pests proliferated very quickly and diseases spread easily, and boils were particularly rampant at this time. At this time, the food for health preservation is in the middle of nowhere; Coupled with busy farming, it is time for physical and mental exhaustion. In order to prevent diseases and improve health, people will step on herbs, collect herbs and take a bath with herbs in the Dragon Boat Festival in May. In the process of stepping on, picking and tasting herbs, the game of "fighting herbs" naturally came into being. In the Song Dynasty, Ouyang Xiu wrote the poem "Lady Pavilion Dragon Boat Festival Post": "Jinxian apricot powder, Hongyu Hailiulou. * * * Today's battle will win, and it's all herbs. " In the Song Dynasty, Huang Zichang wrote the poem "Seven Luoxiang": "The fairy garden is bright in the daytime, and at a glance, people sing and laugh, admire and boast, and win more money than others."

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