Annual
The Dragon Boat Festival is coming!
I believe that everyone is happiest
It's time for another holiday!
Apart from
Eat rice dumplings, race dragon boats...
In fact, the earliest Dragon Boat Festival was the National Health Day
This day cleaning, pest control,
Therefore, it is a festival for the people to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics.
Recently, the epidemic has recurred
Our epidemic prevention work must not be slackened
Let's take a look at it today with Xiaoyi
Dragon boat festival
Let's take advantage of the epidemic prevention customs in this traditional Chinese festival!
About "Dragon Boat Festival"
The Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month of the lunar calendar
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"Noon" is in the summer calendar, and May is the noon moon
According to the traditional yin and yang numbers and seasonal seasons in China,
Noon is yang, heavy noon is yang;
The ancients put the Dragon Boat Festival, the three noons weighed each other,
It is regarded as the time of polar yang, and it can best ward off yin and evil.
The ancients thought
Dragon Boat Festival is the most medicinal day of the year for herbal medicine,
The herbs picked on this day are the most effective in dispelling diseases and preventing epidemics.
Summer weather is getting hotter and all kinds of insect and mouse germs multiply rapidly,
Therefore, many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are related to warding off evil spirits and dispelling diseases.
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Unexpectedly, eating zongzi was first used to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics. The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic says, "Xia Yangyang". Summer is yang evil, its nature rises and disperses, and it is easy to consume gas and hurt Jin. "Wounded" means "wounded spleen". The main raw material of rice dumplings is glutinous rice. Doctor Sheng Sun Simiao believes that "glutinous rice, spleen disease should be eaten, and the qi is beneficial to stop the discharge." The "Compendium of Materia Medica" also contains: "Glutinous rice, warm spleen and stomach." "Glutinous rice can just replenish the spleen and vitality, so as to achieve the purpose of driving away plague, warding off evil spirits, removing pollution, and removing poison."
As the saying goes, "Qing Ming planted willows, Dragon Boat Festival, hanging Ai", the Jin Dynasty's "Terroir" mentioned: "Take Ai as a tiger shape, or cut the ribbon as a small tiger, paste with Ai Ye, and insiders compete to cut it." Later, it will be more calamus, or in the form of a human, or in the shape of a sword, called pu sword, to drive away evil spirits but ghosts. "In this season of rampant mosquitoes and breeding bacteria, the strong smell of wormwood can repel insects and bacteria, and calamus can also."
Doucao is a folk game derived from the picking of herbs, which goes out on the Dragon Boat Festival, finds some exotic flowers and plants to compete with each other, and the novelty or variety wins. The origin is not examined, and it is generally believed to be related to the emergence of traditional Chinese medicine. Fighting grass in the form of a battle to report each other's flower names, grass names, more for the win, both plant knowledge, literary knowledge of the fun; children with petiole hook, pinch each other, break the loser, and then change a leaf to fight.
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The Han Dynasty "Great Dai Li" says: "Bathing in Lan Tang at noon". This "orchid" is not an orchid, but a perrin of the Asteraceae family, which has an aroma and can be bathed in decoction water. Later generations generally used herbs such as fried pu wormwood, and the ancients believed that lantang bathing could decontaminate and detoxify.
The Eastern Han Dynasty Ying Shao recorded in the "Customs and Customs": "On the fifth day of May, with the five-colored silk tie the arm, the name is long life wisp, one life is continued, one life is to break the soldiers, one is a five-color wisp, one is Zhu Suo, the soldiers and ghosts are sent, and the people are not sick and plagued." "In order to pray for the health and safety of the children, five-colored threads will be tied around the wrists, ankles, and necks of the children.
The most famous legend about drinking Xionghuang wine during the Dragon Boat Festival is the story of the white lady drinking Xionghuang wine in "The Legend of the White Snake". After the Dragon Boat Festival, due to the increase in temperature, poisonous gases began to occur, and epidemics sprouted. As a Chinese herbal medicine for detoxification and insecticide, the ancient people believed that Xionghuang could "kill hundreds of poisons, ward off hundreds of evils, and make poisons".
During the Dragon Boat Festival, the ancients also had the custom of smearing children's foreheads with male yellow, and the typical method was to use male yellow wine to draw the word "king" on children's foreheads, one borrowed xionghuang to drive away poison, and the other borrowed fierce tigers ("king" resembles tiger foreheads, and tigers are the kings of beasts, because they are substitute tigers) to suppress evil. In addition to applying to the forehead, nose and ears, it can also be applied to other places with the same intention. Shanxi's "Chronicle of Hequ County" Yun: "Dragon Boat Festival, drink Xionghuang wine, use Tu Xiao'er's forehead and two hands and feet... It is said that the illness can be prolonged. ”
Dragon boating originated in primitive society and is an activity of the ancient Yue people to worship the water god. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is the festival of dragon ascension to heaven, and dragon worship in the form of dragon boats is an important ritual theme of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is still prevalent in the southern coastal area of China. In the old days, when people worshipped the dragon god, the atmosphere was very serious, and they prayed for a good harvest in agriculture, smooth wind and rain, removal of evil spirits, disasters, and good luck, and also blessed the safety of rowing.
As the saying goes, "Bring a vanilla bag, don't be afraid of five pests". Sachets are sachets, which contain incense powder; incense powder is made of white root, Sichuan root, coriander and other traditional Chinese medicine mixture grinding, which can also be repellent and prevented by insects.
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