1. Wood name. That is, radix aristolochiae. Ming Li Shizhen's Compendium of Grass, Grass, Woodroot (explanation of the name) quoted Wang Hanghe's Three-hole Pearl Capsule from the Tang Dynasty: "The five-scented person is also Woodroot. There are five sticks in a plant, five branches in a stem, five leaves in a branch, and five nodes between leaves, so it is named spiced, and it can burn for nine days. "

2. It refers to five kinds of spices such as fennel, pepper, star anise, cinnamon and clove. Qing Li Dou's "Yangzhou Painting Boat Record and Little Qinhuai Record": "Xiaodongmen Street Restaurant, fried pheasant ... spiced wild duck, chicken and duck miscellaneous, ham slices." Such as: spiced beans and spiced dried bean curd.

3. It refers to five spices: Dou Liang, Yujin, Qiulong, Fuzi and Rest in Peace. On April 8 th in the lunar calendar, Sakyamuni's birthday was used to bathe Buddha. Tang Han 'e's "Hua Ji Li April 8": "The Buddha of eight characters comes, and the water of five spices is a bath." Original note: "Biography of the Monk": Migelitou bathed in Buddha on April 8, with Dou Liang incense as cyan water, tulip as red water, Qiulongxiang as white water, aconite incense as yellow water, benzoin as black water, and filled the top of Buddha. "