1 .1: disaster prevention and antivirus. People think that the Dragon Boat Festival is located at the turn of spring and summer, with May as the poisonous month, 5th as the poisonous day and 5th at noon as the poisonous time. Dragon Boat Festival is the beginning of the whole hot weather. The five poisons are active and ghosts are rampant. People pay special attention to disaster prevention and gas prevention on this day. Therefore, there is a folk proverb "inserting willows in Qingming Festival and sticking moxa sticks in Dragon Boat Festival", and every household hangs moxa sticks in the lintel hall during Dragon Boat Festival. Artemisia argyi is a compositae herb. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil, which can repel mosquitoes, purify the air and be used as medicine. Has the functions of regulating qi and blood, eliminating dampness and dispelling cold. In fact, the traditional method of using wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival is not only to increase the atmosphere of the festival, but also has scientific basis. But also in many places as a way to ward off evil spirits, avoid disasters and keep peace.
2. Second, good luck in treating diseases. Wormwood represents a hundred blessings and is a kind of herbal medicine that can cure diseases. Inserting it at the door can make you healthy. In ancient China, it has always been a medicinal plant. Moxibustion in acupuncture uses wormwood as the main component and burns it at acupoints to treat diseases. The legend that wormwood can exorcise evil spirits has been circulating for a long time, mainly because it has the function of medicine. For example, it is recorded in Zong Yi's Chronicle of Jingchu that when Japanese chickens don't crow, people who take wormwood like humans take it and receive it with moxibustion, which is very effective. That is, the day when Ai was taken in human form and hung on the door, it could poison gas. Most people also have the custom of planting wormwood in front of and behind their houses for good luck.
3. Third, it can exorcise evil spirits. There are all kinds of flowers and plants that can exorcise evil spirits in the Dragon Boat Festival, and the source is also long. The earliest example is hanging wormwood on the door. The Chronicle of Jingchu: "Collecting wormwood is like hanging on the door to poison gas." This is because mugwort is an important medicinal plant, and it can also be used for treating diseases, moxibustion at acupoints and expelling insects. The temperature in May contains the most oil of mugwort leaves (which is at the peak of temperature growth), so the effect is the best, and people are scrambling to pick mugwort leaves. Besides turning Aiza into a human being, he also made Aiza into the shape of a tiger. This is the so-called Ai Hu. The annotation in the story of Jingchu Chunqiu says: "Take Ai as a tiger shape, or cut the ribbon as a tiger shape and stick it on my wife to try it on."
Matters needing attention
After knowing the purpose of wormwood used in the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone should be careful not to eat warm food when soaking their feet with wormwood leaves.