Duanwu Festival hanging mugwort has the effect of keeping peace, warding off evil spirits and preventing mosquitoes.

1, to protect peace and ward off evil spirits: the Dragon Boat Festival in the doorway to hang mugwort, calamus (bushy sword) or pomegranate, hu garlic, all have their reasons. Usually will be ai, banyan, calamus with red paper tied into a bundle, and then inserted or hanging in the door. Because calamus days in the first of the five Rui, symbolizing the sword to drive away bad luck, because of the growing season and the shape is regarded as a sense of "hundred yin gas", the leaves are sword-shaped, inserted in the door to ward off evil spirits.

2, anti-mosquito: mugwort will emit an aromatic odor, can effectively repel mosquitoes

3, antiseptic and disease prevention: mugwort is a traditional Chinese medicine, can be a treatment of menstrual disorders, cold pain, eczema. Ignite the moxa made of moxa leaves, smoked human body acupuncture points, can be health care treatment.

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Other Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

1, Dragon Boat Racing: Legend has it that the people of Chu took the opportunity of rowing a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river, so as to prevent the fish from eating Qu Yuan's body. Wang Zuoshi said, the ancients raced dragon boat at the end of the set the fish mark, duck mark, iron mark, who got the 3 mark won the first runner-up and second runner-up. In order to allow participants to see the finish line from a distance, the ancients would also use brocade bows on the 3 mark.

2, eat five poisonous cakes: Dragon Boat Festival near the summer solstice, the weather is getting hot, bacteria, people are prone to heatstroke, the ancients ate five poisonous cakes to eliminate disease and strengthen the body. Five poisons refer to scorpions, toads, geckos, centipedes, snakes, the ancients will cover their image in the cake, the filling is also "five fillings": cherries, water chestnuts, mulberries, yellow apricots and lotus root. It is said that eating the five poisonous cakes can enhance the resistance to pests and disasters.

3, point xionghuang wine: the old Beijing people in the Dragon Boat Festival is also a bit of xionghuang wine custom, will be the wine in the boy's forehead to write the word "king", in the girl's head point five points, it is believed that, so that mosquitoes and flies will be cracked by the xionghuang wine, to ward off evil spirits and avoid harm.

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