However, this custom has no scientific basis. If you don't go to the jungle and other places where wild animals haunt in your daily life, you won't see snakes, so you can still eat noodles on the Dragon Boat Festival.
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Dragon Boat Festival custom:
May is the beginning of a hot day. At this time, the sun is shining and the fire is extremely prosperous. The hot air in the sky drops to the ground, and the moisture on the ground evaporates into the air, intertwined with the damp heat. It is the easiest to breed germs, brew all kinds of evil spirits and make people sick.
Dragon Boat Festival is the first of the nine poisons. The ancients set up the Dragon Boat Festival to remind everyone to pay attention to health and prevent diseases. Therefore, there are many rituals to ward off evil spirits and poison, such as drinking realgar wine, inserting wormwood and wearing sachets, which all contain the inheritance of Goode's wisdom and experience.
1, eat zongzi
Zongzi is also a medicinal diet. Glutinous rice has the functions of invigorating qi and spleen, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion. The leaves used to wrap zongzi are more particular. Reed leaves are mostly used in the north, and bamboo leaves and lotus leaves are mostly used in the south. These leaves have good medicinal functions.
For example, reed leaves can clear away heat and promote fluid production, remove troubles and quench thirst; Bamboo leaves can clear away heat, relieve annoyance, induce diuresis and detoxify; Lotus leaf can clear away heat, induce diuresis and regulate stomach. Generally speaking, Zongzi has the effects of clearing away heat and relieving summer heat, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production, nourishing blood and calming the nerves.
At the same time, we should also emphasize that zongzi is fragrant, waxy and slippery, with high viscosity and is not easy to digest. Eating too much is easy to cause indigestion. People with poor spleen and stomach pay special attention to controlling food intake.
Step 2 hang calamus
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the pathogens are mainly damp-heat, so it is necessary to turn incense into dampness and incense into turbidity. The custom of Dragon Boat Festival is always inseparable from incense. 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.
Artemisia argyi, also known as Artemisia argyi and Artemisia argyi. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils. Its unique fragrance can repel mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants and purify the air. Chinese medicine uses wormwood as medicine, which has the functions of nourishing qi and blood, warming uterus and dispelling cold and dampness. Processing Artemisia argyi leaves into "moxa wool" is an important medicinal material for moxibustion treatment.
Acorus calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, and its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil, which is a good medicine for refreshing, strengthening bones, eliminating stagnation, killing insects and sterilizing. It can be seen that the ancients inserted wormwood leaves and calamus to have a certain disease prevention effect.
Step 3 wear a sachet
Wearing sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival not only means to ward off evil spirits, but also has a positive embellishment. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, and the fragrance is overflowing, and then tied into a rope with five-color silk thread to make a string of different shapes, exquisite and eye-catching Wear sachets to gather fragrance and concentrate, ward off evil spirits and drive away epidemics, and decorate the inner head.
The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, wrapped in silk and tied with five-color silk thread. Chinese herbal medicines used in sachets can emit natural fragrance, which belongs to the category of five fragrances in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and have the effects of inducing resuscitation, invigorating the spleen, eliminating filth and refreshing the mind.
Modern medical research has also proved that these drugs are fragrant because they contain a lot of volatile substances and have antibacterial and antiviral effects. Chinese herbal medicine in traditional sachets of Dragon Boat Festival can also prevent colds, hand, foot and mouth disease, and has a good effect on mosquito control and mosquito repellent.