1, xionghuang wine

Duanwu Festival drink xionghuang wine from the ancient times has been handed down the custom. As the old saying goes, "If you drink Xionghuang wine, all the diseases will be far away". Xionghuang is a mineral, commonly known as the "cockle stone", the general drinking of xionghuang wine, only in white wine or home-brewed yellow wine to add trace amounts of xionghuang, is not pure drinking.

Andrographis is a mineral, containing arsenic trisulfide components, mixed with wine. That is, into the andrographis wine, used to drive away insects to solve the five poisons, children coated in the head and forehead. Ear, nose, hands and feet heart. And sprinkled walls ask, in order to law of all poisons. The story of "The Legend of the White Snake" has been passed down in the folklore, that is, to solve the poison of snakes and vipers with androgynous wine, and the original shape of the white snake. This kind of Xi Bai is very popular among people in the Yangtze River basin area.

But from the point of view of modern medicine, drinking andrographis is extremely harmful to the human body, even if you do not drink, just put the andrographis on the child's head, body, is not desirable. Even when taken in small doses, it can cause damage to the liver. Therefore, direct consumption of Xionghuang wine is generally not recommended.

2, Wujia wine

"The fifth day of the fifth month to pick Wujia, brew Wujia wine" is a folk custom. Wuga that is, Wuga bark, gas flavor bitter, Wuga bark has a strange fragrance, can nourish the liver and kidney and strong muscles and bones. Folk believe that drinking Wujia wine, you can take refuge from evil spirits. The medicinal use of Wujia bark is mainly for the treatment of hernia, abdominal pain, male impotence, residual leaching, women's lumbar and spinal pain, two feet pain. Areas located in humid areas are particularly suitable for drinking Wuga wine on the Dragon Boat Festival.

Legend, the East China Sea Dragon King's five princess Jia Maiden descended to earth, and mortals to the center and love. Because of the difficulties of life five Gongwen proposed to brew a kind of both fitness and cure the disease of the wine, to the center and feel difficult. The five maids asked Zhi Zhonghe to brew the wine according to her method and put Chinese herbs in a certain proportion.

While putting in the herbs, the fifth princess sang a song: "A flavor of angelica tonifies the heart and blood, and concubine yellow is used to remove blood stasis and dissolve dampness. Gan Song awakens the spleen and removes evil, disperses stagnation and harmonizes the stomach with Guang Mu Xiang. Menthol is cool and clears the head and eyes, and papaya soothes and refreshes the spirit. Hawthorn can suppress dampness, and wind-cold paralysis can open up. The bark of Wuga has a strange fragrance, nourishes the liver and kidney, strengthens the muscles and bones, harmonizes all medicines and adds licorice, Gui Zhi Yu Zhu can not be forgotten. The twelve branches of the earth's branches, increase or decrease all the wonderful formula." It turns out that this song contains twelve kinds of Chinese medicines, which is the recipe for the Five Princesses' Wugapi Wine. In order to avoid suspicion, Princess Wu named the wine "Zhi Zhong He Wu Jia Pei Wine". According to the Qin-Han period (Shennong Ben Cao Jing), "Ruding Gongmu single dose of Wuga Pi wine, so as not to die".

3, calamus wine

Duanwu Festival drinking the most of another kind of wine is calamus wine, calamus wine is made with calamus, moxa leaves, in the Song Dynasty, calamus is regarded as "the thing that wards off the evil spirits", and therefore later the Dragon Boat Festival to drink calamus wine to ward off evil spirits of the prevailing custom.

As early as the pre-Qin period, "Shennong Ben Cao Jing", "Zhou Li" and other ancient books, there are records on the medicinal value of calamus. To calamus immersed in wine, the most prevalent in the Ming Dynasty. Li Shizhen in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" has pointed out that "calamus wine, the 36 winds, twelve paralysis, through the bloodstream, treating bone impotence, long service ears and eyes smart.

Calamus wine produced in Shanxi Yuanqu, is a formulated wine, color orange and slightly green, bright and transparent, aromatic odor, wine thick, medicinal incense coordination, without losing the natural characteristics, sweet incense, sweet but not greasy, slightly medicinal, so that people do not get tired of, brewing and refreshing, spicy not choking the throat, after drinking, people are refreshing. The degree of alcohol is 45 degrees, sugar is 12 degrees.

4, yellow wine

From a scientific point of view, andrographis need to be treated with caution, while yellow wine is beneficial to human health. Yellow wine is actually a kind of rice wine, unlike white wine, yellow wine is not distilled, the alcohol content is less than 20%, different kinds of yellow wine color also shows different beige, yellowish brown or reddish brown.

In Chinese medicine, yellow wine can be used for medicinal purposes. Drinking it raw has curative effects on rapid heartbeat, anorexia, etc. Drinking it hot relieves blood stagnation, lack of milk, rheumatism, lumbago, backache and numbness of the hands and feet.

Drinking it hot is good for your health, and it will evaporate some of the harmful substances in the wine after it is scalded. Yellow wine with plums, nourishing Yin beauty role is significant, but also, to alleviate the damage of alcohol on the liver. Yellow wine with cinnamon, lychee, red dates with cooking can relieve the disorders,, seminal emission and.