The Dragon Boat Festival will arrive on the 7th of next month. The Dragon Boat Festival, together with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid Autumn Festival, is known as the four traditional festivals of Chinese folk. Since ancient times, there have been festival activities such as rowing dragon boats and eating zongzi! Hanging wormwood is also a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Do you know why wormwood is hung on the Dragon Boat Festival?
The meaning of hanging wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival is the first festival in summer. The rise of temperature is a period of frequent diseases. Therefore, many years ago, people often hung several wormwood plants at the door of their home. Because of the special smell of wormwood, people used it to drive away diseases, prevent mosquitoes and ward off evil spirits.
As a folk saying goes, 'insert willows during the Qingming Festival and AI during the Dragon Boat Festival'. On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard the planting of wormwood and Acorus calamus as one of the important contents. " AI ', also known as AI and AI Hao. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil. Its peculiar fragrance can drive away mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants and purify the air. In traditional Chinese medicine, AI is used as medicine, which has the functions of regulating qi and blood, warming the uterus and removing cold and dampness. Processing Wormwood Leaves into 'moxa Velvet' is an important medicinal material for moxibustion. Acorus calamus is a perennial aquatic herb. Its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil. It is a drug for refreshing and dredging orifices, strengthening bones and eliminating stagnation, killing insects and sterilization. It can be seen that the ancients inserted AI and Acorus calamus have a certain role in disease prevention, and these activities also reflect the fine traditions of the Chinese nation.
What is the function of hanging wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival
There are reasons why wormwood, calamus (Pujian), pomegranate and garlic are hung at the door of the Dragon Boat Festival. AI, banyan and calamus are usually tied into a bundle with red paper and then inserted or hung on the door. Because Acorus calamus is the first of the five auspicious in the sky, it symbolizes the sword to dispel the ominous. Because the growth season and shape are regarded as feeling '100 Yin Qi', the leaves are sword shaped and can be inserted in the door to ward off evil spirits. So the alchemists called it 'water sword', and later the custom was extended to 'Pujian', which can cut thousands of evil. In the Qing Dynasty, Gu Tieqing recorded in the Qing Jialu that "cutting cattail as a sword, cutting Peng as a whip, with peach stalks and garlic hanging in bed households, all with ghosts".
Function of wormwood
Now, with the improvement of living standards, living in cities has rarely had the opportunity to hang wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival to dispel and prevent diseases. If you have friends who have Yisheng moxibustion instruments at home, you can do moxibustion at home, which can better expel cold and dampness, promote blood circulation and detoxification, dredge meridians and activate collaterals, dispel diseases and prevent diseases, and maintain health. In addition, the used moxa cake can also repel mosquitoes and insects by burning and fumigating the room.