As the saying goes: Calamus drives away evil and welcomes festivity, and mugwort leaves avoid evil and keep peace.
The Dragon Boat Festival hangs mugwort and has a long history.
From the beginning of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, until now, the people have the custom of hanging mugwort on the door during the Dragon Boat Festival, which has been passed down from generation to generation and has a history of thousands of years.
Many people don't understand, why do you hang mugwort during the Dragon Boat Festival? How to hang mugwort?
The Dragon Boat Festival was originally the witch festival of the ancients. The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is an evil day in ancient folklore.
The so-called poison day of the ancients actually refers to the nine poison days.
The Nine Poison Days refer to: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the sixth day of the first month, the seventh day of the first month, the fifteenth, the sixteenth, the seventeenth, the twenty-fifth, the twenty-sixth, and the twenty-seventh day of the fifth lunar month. These nine days are called the "Nine Poisonous Days of Heaven and Earth".
The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is known as the first of the nine poisonous days.
"Customs and Customs" recorded: "It is commonly said that when a son is born on the fifth of May, a man harms his father and a woman harms his mother" "Building a house in five days makes people bald."
It can be seen that in the eyes of the ancients, it was not a good day, but a poisonous day.
Besides, for us modern people, the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, and it is not a festive day.
In order to relieve the poisonous day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the ancients used mugwort as a disaster relief object and hung it on both sides of the gate or window.
Mugwort is a handful of grass that ties mugwort leaves and calamus together, commonly known as wormwood. It generally consists of two branches of calamus with roots and two branches of mugwort.
Since hanging mugwort is to relieve the "poison" of the poisonous day of the Dragon Boat Festival, it has three functions and meanings. The first is to welcome the joy and recruit a hundred blessings. The second is to drive away miasma and avoid evil spirits. Third, health reports safety.
Holding the Ai flag in his hand to recruit a hundred blessings, the door hangs a sword to cut a thousand evils; Calamus drives away evil and welcomes festivity, and mugwort leaves avoid evil and keep safe; Pu Jian rushed to the emperor to fight the view, and Ai Qi flicked the ground in shock; Ye Ruqi beckons a hundred blessings, calamus is like a sword to cut a thousand demons, etc., these folk proverbs fully explain these roles and meanings.
Simply put, hanging mugwort in front of the house is equivalent to pasting a spiritual talisman at the doorstep, which can seek benefits and avoid harm, spread blessings, and be safe and healthy.
From ancient times to the present, hanging mugwort is also exquisite, and it cannot be hung casually.
As the saying goes: hang early but not late, hang double without hanging orders, hang upside down without hanging smooth.
This is how mugwort is properly suspended.
One is that mugwort should be hung on the gate, or hung on the window.
The second is that mugwort should be hung in pairs, respectively on both sides of the gate or on both sides of the window.
Third, mugwort should be hung upside down and cannot be hung along the way.
Fourth, mugwort should be hung earlier, preferably the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, or you can hang it on the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival.