Dragon Boat Festival is a very old traditional festival in China, with a long history, so there are many traditional customs, and each region also has a very special way, such as painting forehead with realgar wine. What's the meaning of Xionghuang wine painting? How to draw? Let's get to know each other.
How to draw the forehead with realgar wine in Dragon Boat Festival
Realgar wine is a rumored custom of Dragon Boat Festival. It can be used to draw the forehead in addition to eating it. When the Dragon Boat Festival is held, it is called drawing the forehead by drawing the word "Wang" or the pattern of tiger on the forehead of children with realgar.
Realgar is a kind of mineral, also known as cockscomb. It is warm, pungent and poisonous. It is mainly used as antidote and insecticidal medicine. In the past, some Suzhou people used to dip realgar in their children's forehead and draw a "King" character, like a pattern on the forehead of a tiger. This custom is called "painting forehead", which expresses people's desire to dispel evil spirits. Painting forehead is the custom of daubing the forehead of children with realgar on Dragon Boat Festival. Clouds can repel poisonous insects.
The implication of the painting amount of realgar wine
The custom of painting forehead on Dragon Boat Festival has a long history. It is said that it can repel insects, avoid poison and control evils. But now this custom has gradually disappeared in many places.
In Yanjing's chronicle of the age of Yanjing, Fu chadun of the Qing Dynasty, he said: "every time I come to Duanyang, I will take realgar and wine and sprinkle them on the first day of the first day of the new year. I will use it on the collar of children and between the nose and ears to avoid poisons. In addition to the forehead, nose and ears, it can also be applied to other places with the same intention. According to the records of Hequ County in Shanxi Province: 'on the Dragon Boat Festival, drinking realgar wine, using children's forehead, hands and feet, it means that the disease can last for years. '
In the old custom of daubing the forehead of children with realgar on Dragon Boat Festival, clouds can repel poisonous insects. The typical method is to use realgar wine to draw the word "Wang" on the forehead of children. One is to use realgar to expel poison, and the other is to use tiger like forehead pattern to control evil. Realgar is a kind of mineral, also known as cockscomb. It is warm, pungent and poisonous. It is mainly used as antidote and insecticidal medicine.
Effect and function of realgar wine
Realgar wine is pungent and bitter, mild in nature and toxic, which can enter the liver meridian, the tired meridians and the large intestine meridian. After taking it, people can relieve it once, and it can also treat carbuncle, swelling, sores, and insecticidal. In addition, realgar wine can relax muscles and activate blood circulation, and has a certain therapeutic effect on human joint pain.
Realgar wine can clear away heat and detoxify, which has a good therapeutic effect on human eczema. It can be applied directly to the eczema growing part in the ordinary treatment, or taken orally in a proper amount, which can make the eczema symptoms improve quickly. In addition, after people are bitten by snakes and insects, realgar wine can also be used for treatment in time, which can play a very good detoxification effect.
Modern science has proved that the main component of realgar is arsenic sulfide. Arsenic is the main raw material for arsenic extraction. Drinking realgar wine is equal to eating arsenic. Realgar contains strong carcinogens, even if taken in small doses, it will cause damage to the liver. Therefore, taking realgar is very easy to make people poisoned. The light ones have nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other symptoms, even central nervous system paralysis, vague consciousness, coma and so on. The heavy ones will cause death. In traditional Chinese medicine, a small amount of realgar wine can be used to treat convulsions and sores. However, it must follow the doctor's instructions and be processed by ancient methods. Realgar is more for external use. It has a good effect in treating scabies, sores, snake bites and so on.