? Sprinkling xionghuang wine and drinking xionghuang wine at the Dragon Boat Festival is a festive custom since ancient times. But what is the significance? I don't know if you still remember , there are such interpretations in movies and TV dramas. In the New White Lady Legend, Bai Suzhen Dragon Boat Festival drank xionghuang wine to reveal her original form, I did not expect to be a thousand years of snake demon, the Xu Xian live scared to death in the past. In fact, the purpose of the sprinkling of xionghuang wine is the same - exorcise the evil spirits and drive away the insects and snakes.

? According to legend, the sprinkling of xionghuang wine at the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the river with a stone in his arms. The people were afraid that his flesh would be eaten by worms and snakes, and they threw zongzi (rice dumplings) and salted duck eggs into the river. There are even old men who know about pharmacology, pouring the wine into the river, aiming to stun the dragon and prevent it from hurting Qu Yuan's body.

Later, the legend is very legendary, the legend is really a dragon was stunned by the drug floated up, but also by the local people picked the dragon tendons as bracelets tied to the hands of the children, and then finally smeared the children's forehead seven orifices with the yellow wine, said to be able to prevent snakes and insects. These are all legends, but to the Dragon Boat Festival and xionghuang wine have added a mysterious color.

In fact, near the Dragon Boat Festival, which is known as the "Poisonous Moon", the temperature rises, snakes and insects revive, and it is easy to spread epidemics, so it is necessary to drink and sprinkle xionghuang wine in order to avoid being bitten by snakes and insects. And in ancient times, epidemics were regarded as a kind of evil thing, so on the other hand, it is also to drive away the evil spirits.

And andrographis wine also has heat-clearing and detoxification effect, for the rash because of dampness and heat, insect and snake bites, applying also has a very good effect. Children can not drink alcohol, so the way to use the application. In ancient times, when medical care was backward, it was the only way to ensure good health through this time of the year.

? In fact, it can be seen from these origins, such as commemorating Qu Yuan, it is the people's reverence for the bones of the ancient literati as well as patriotism; medicine to stun the dragon and break the skin of the dragon to use it as a bracelet, which is the people's fear of the nature and the desire to overcome it.

For example, my family over the festival, whether or not it is really edible, but "five yellow" is sure to Put on the table, yellow eel, yellow fish, cucumber, salted egg yolk, and xionghuang wine. Not necessarily really love to eat, but on the table is a good luck, and gradually became a sense of ritual for the festival.

Although our traditional custom is to drink Xionghuang wine on the Dragon Boat Festival? Moreover, Xionghuang wine is essentially a medicine, after all, is a medicine three poison, casually drink is likely to have harmful effects on the body, or to be cautious to drink.