There are many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, and the customs in different regions are different. Some places have dragon boat races, some places have wormwood, some places have to wear sachets, and some places have to drink realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Children taking a bath on the Dragon Boat Festival is very different from taking a bath at ordinary times. This morning, all the mothers took their children, each carrying a basket, picking leaves of various plants outside the village in the dew. For example, willow leaves, Sophora japonica leaves, Toona sinensis leaves, mulberry leaves, and all kinds of grass on the ground can be picked as long as they are plants. However, two things are the most important and indispensable, that is, Acorus calamus and wormwood.
Near noon, mothers wash all these leaves, then put them in a big pot, add a pot of water, add some eggs and garlic, and they can burn them. When the pot is boiled and the eggs are cooked, the bath water will be fine.
After the water cools, mothers use it to bathe their children. People call it "hundred grass bath". It is said that bathing with this water can not only treat various skin diseases, but also prevent the occurrence of various diseases and enhance children's physical resistance.
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After taking a bath, children can put on new clothes that their parents have prepared. The next step is to buckle the wool. The position of wool is generally determined by age. The baby's neck, wrist and ankle should be buckled. Older children can just buckle their wrists.
It is said that the buttoned wool can't be taken off casually, and it can't be taken off until the sixth day of the sixth lunar month and thrown on the roof. On the seventh day of July, the magpie will take it to build a magpie bridge for the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
When everything is ready, children can eat the eggs and garlic left in the pot, and adults should also eat them. Eating these eggs and garlic cooked with herbs can cure all diseases and keep healthy.
Although there are many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, they are inseparable from the elements of evil, peace and health, reflecting people's good wishes for peace and health. Although some of them are superstitious, according to experts of traditional Chinese medicine, it is still very scientific that our "hundred-herb bath" can cure all diseases and protect health.