Every festival has its customs. It's about to Dragon Boat Festival. Besides eating zongzi, rowing dragon boat and hanging wormwood, the Dragon Boat Festival also needs to drink some realgar wine. Why do you drink realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival? What's the origin of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival?
Why drink realgar wine in Dragon Boat Festival
On Dragon Boat Festival, people pour realgar into wine to drink, and apply realgar to children's ears, nose, forehead, hands, feet, etc. in the hope that this can protect children from the harm of snakes and insects.
The origin of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival
It is said that people in Qu Yuan's hometown threw zongzi and salted eggs into the river to prevent Jiaolong from eating Qu Yuan's body. An old doctor took a jar of realgar wine and poured it into the river. He said it could cure the fish dragon and protect Qu Yuan. In a moment, a dragon appeared on the water. Therefore, people pulled the dragon to the shore, pulled its sinews and peeled its skin, then wrapped the sinews around the children's wrists and necks, and then wiped the seven orifices with realgar wine, thinking that this would protect the children from the harm of insects and snakes. It is said that this is the origin of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival. Up to now, many places in our country have the habit of drinking realgar wine.
The meaning of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival
The ancients believed that people eat grains and grains to produce all kinds of diseases. In the long-term struggle with various diseases, people found that drinking realgar wine and wearing sachets can dispel evils and detoxify, and they have their own medical principles. To say the sachet, we should first say realgar and realgar wine. Realgar is rich in many places, people use realgar to make realgar wine in the process of continuous practice.
However, from the perspective of modern medicine, drinking realgar wine is extremely harmful to the human body. Even if you don't drink it, it's not advisable to just apply realgar wine to your child's head and body. As the main chemical component of realgar is toxic arsenic disulfide, it should be turned into arsenic trioxide after heating, which is commonly known as arsenic. People will be poisoned after drinking it. It's no exaggeration to say that drinking realgar wine is actually equal to eating arsenic, so don't take chances and think about whether you can attack the poison with the poison of realgar wine, or just drink realgar wine, it will be OK It's dangerous to do everything. In order to cope with the Dragon Boat Festival, we must use realgar wine. We can spray it on the corner to drive away the poisonous insects in summer.