What is the use of wormwood for Dragon Boat Festival?

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As we all know, in the Dragon Boat Festival, many people like to put or hang some wormwood in front of the door, but many people don't know much about the use of wormwood in the Dragon Boat Festival. Therefore, let's understand the use of wormwood in the Dragon Boat Festival.

What is the use of wormwood for Dragon Boat Festival?

One: disaster prevention. People think that the Dragon Boat Festival is at the turn of spring and summer. May is the poison month, the fifth is the poison day, and the noon of the fifth is the poison time. The Dragon Boat Festival is the beginning of the whole hot day. The five poisons begin to be active, and the ghosts also begin to be rampant. Therefore, people pay special attention to disaster elimination and drug prevention on this day. Therefore, there is a folk proverb "insert willows during the Qingming Festival and AI during the Dragon Boat Festival". Artemisia argyi is a herbaceous plant of Compositae. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil, which can repel mosquitoes and insects, purify air, and be used as medicine. It has the functions of regulating qi and blood, removing dampness and cold. In fact, the traditional method of using wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival is not only to increase the festival atmosphere, but also has scientific basis. Moreover, many places also use it as a way of exorcising evil spirits, avoiding disasters and protecting safety.

The second is to invite good fortune to cure diseases. Wormwood stands for zhaobaifu. It is a kind of herb that can cure diseases. If it is inserted at the door, it can make people healthy. In ancient China, it has always been a medicinal plant. The moxibustion method in acupuncture and moxibustion uses wormwood as the main component and burns it on the acupoints to treat diseases. The legend that moxa can exorcise evil has been handed down for a long time. The main reason is that it has the function of medicine. For example, in Zong Yu's "Jingchu chronicle of the year", it is recorded that before the rooster crows, those who take moxa like a human figure take it and receive moxibustion, which is very effective. It's in the shape of a human, hanging on the door, and can remove poisonous gas. Most people also have the custom of planting wormwood before and after the house for good luck.

Third: Exorcism. The Dragon Boat Festival has a long history of setting up various flowers and plants that can exorcise evil spirits. The earliest such as hanging wormwood in the door, Jingchu years old records: "collect wormwood as a person, hanging on the door, with poison gas." This is because moxa is an important medicinal plant, it can also be made into moxa velvet to treat diseases, moxibustion points, and insect repellent. May text contains the most wormwood oil, so the effect is the best, people are competing to pick wormwood. In addition to adopting aiza as a human being, aiza is also made into a tiger shape, which is called Aihu. The annotation in the book of the age of Jingchu states: "take aiza as a tiger shape, or cut the ribbon as a little tiger, and post it to the people in Aiye to fight for wearing it."

matters needing attention

After understanding the use of wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival, we should also pay attention not to eat warm food when using Wormwood Leaves to soak feet.