After the Dragon Boat Festival, wormwood incense folk proverb said: "Qingming planting willows, Dragon Boat Festival, inserting wormwood." "On the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, people take mugwort and calamus as one of the important contents. Every house is sprinkled with sweeping, with calamus,

Wormwood fragrance after the Dragon Boat Festival

The folk proverb says: "Qingming insert willows, Dragon Boat Festival." "On the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, people take mugwort and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family is sprinkled with sweeping, with calamus and mugwort sticks inserted in the eyebrows, hanging in the hall to prevent mosquitoes, "to avoid evil but ghosts." "And use calamus, mugwort, durian, garlic, dragon boat flower to make a human form or tiger shape, called Ai Ren, Ai Hu; Made of garlands, ornaments, beautiful fragrance, women rush to wear, used to drive away miasma. After the stalks are dried, the plant body is soaked in water fumigation to achieve disinfection and antipruritic, and the mother often bathes or fumigates with mugwort water.

Wormwood (scientific name: Artemisia argyi H. Lév. & Vaniot) aliases: Xiao Mao, Bingtai, Shu Cao, Xiang Ai, MuGwort, Ai Xiao, Mugwort, Mugwort, Mugwort, Peng, Moxibustion, Medical Herb, Yellow Grass, Moxa, Sorrel, etc. It is a perennial herb or slightly semi-shrub-shaped with a strong aroma. The stem is solitary or few, brown or grayish-yellowish-brown, slightly woody at the base, upper part, and has a few short branches, the leaves are thick papery, covered with short off-white soft hairs, and the base is usually devoid of false leaves or very small false leaves; The upper leaves and bracts are pinnate semi-lobed, cephalic inflorescences oval, corolla tubular or goblet-shaped, glandular spots on the outside, anthers narrowly linear, peduncles and corolla nearly equal in length or slightly longer than the corolla. The lean fruit is long ovate or oblong. The flowering period is from September to October. Mugwort leaves are dried and mashed to make "moxa", and moxa strips are made for moxibustion, and can also be used as raw materials for "printing mud". It is found in Asia and Europe.

Mugwort has a special sweet fragrance and is made into a fragrant pillow that helps to sleep and relieve sleep. Ai also has good medical benefits. Mugwort is also a kind of edible plant, wormwood can be used as "mugwort tea", "mugwort soup", "mugwort porridge", mugwort steamed buns, mugwort rice cake, mugwort meatballs and other recipes to enhance the body's resistance to disease.

Ai culture has a long history, as early as the era of the Book of Poetry, wormwood has been an important plant for people's livelihood. There is also a legend about the origin of Ai. According to legend, there was a famous doctor named Xiao Ai by the side of King Wu, one day, he diarrhea for many days after lying down in the military tent, in order to heal the critically ill soldiers, he took the sick to the clinic, but accidentally stumbled by the mosquito repellent weed fire and was burned by the fire. But when he treated the soldier, he unexpectedly found that his illness had healed, and there were several more wounds on his body. So he had a sudden idea, with a nameless weed to burn the corresponding position of the patient's body, all the soldiers who had been burned were in good condition, the King of Wu praised Xiao Ai, Xiao Ai did not dare to take credit, and replied: "This is the work of the weed." The King of Wu declared the whole army: "Wild herbs are nameless, and from now on they are named after Xiao Ai and MuGwort." Because of Ai's greater function, the ancients gave it many reputations, such as honoring the old man as "Ai", describing young and beautiful women as "Shao Ai", the Book of Poetry calls maintenance "Bao Ai", and the "History" writes "Ai An" for Taiping, which shows the ancients' love for Ai.