Dragon boat festival custom

Insect control and epidemic prevention: the folk song says, "Dragon Boat Festival, it's hot, and it's no peace when you wake up five times." Dragon Boat Festival is in early summer, with hot weather, rainy and humid, and mosquito breeding, which is the high incidence season of infectious diseases. Therefore, there are many special customs of exorcism, disinfection and epidemic prevention among the people.

Traditional custom: The Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer is full of yang, and everything here is thriving. It is the strongest day of Chinese herbal medicine in a year, and the herbs collected during the Dragon Boat Festival are the most effective in eliminating diseases and epidemic prevention. Many Dragon Boat Festival customs handed down from ancient times have the contents of eliminating yin evil, disease and epidemic prevention, such as hanging wormwood, matching sachets to ward off evil, washing herbal water, smoking Atractylodes rhizome to eliminate disease and epidemic prevention and so on.

The custom of sachets: Qu Yuan wrote in Lisao: "The Shanghai River is separated from the garden, and Qiu Lan thinks it is admirable." , branches, and all refer to vanilla. Choosing fragrant herbs to wear in a bag is a practice that has been going on since ancient times. It is a kind of practice to put herbs, take their fragrance and wear them on your body, hoping that the next year will be safe and smooth.

The function of the sachet: tie the sachet around your waist, or under your elbow, hide it in your sleeve and raise your hand. The fragrance is thick and light, which makes people reluctant to go. Hanging sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to perfuming the body and fumigating clothes, also has a certain insect repellent effect.

Prescriptions for relieving plague: The prescriptions recorded by Wu Shangxian in Qing Dynasty include rhubarb 122, Atractylodes macrocephala 12, sandalwood 12, realgar 12, cinnabar 12, Gan Song 12, Sichuan pepper 82, Guanzhong, keel, tiger bone, kudzuvine root, angelica dahurica 62, cinnamon 52, Liaoyang and. * * * At the end of the study, the silk bag was on her.

Function of fragrant prescription: Like the formula of sachet used in ancient Dragon Boat Festival, the selected fragrant medicine mainly has the functions of avoiding evil spirits, removing filth and expelling insects.

Custom of fragrant soup: As early as the pre-Qin period, the ancients began to bathe Qu Yuan in nine songs of fragrant plants: "Bathing orchid soup is fragrant, and the clothes are beautiful." Song Yu's Goddess Fu: "Mulan Ze, containing Ruofang" is an ancient health and epidemic prevention, which can avoid filth and exorcise evil spirits.

Efficacy of fragrant soup: bathing with fragrant soup can make people clean physically and mentally. Eliminating people's sense of stagnation can not only gain sensory enjoyment, but also relax the spirit. After taking a bath, my mind and body are particularly relaxed and happy.

Smoked clothes custom: The ancients smoked clothes with spices in addition to hanging sachets and making fragrant soup during the Dragon Boat Festival. In ancient times, there were smoked clothes, which can be smoked with "agarwood single flavor"-Yuan's "White Clothes" lotus root silk shirt and willow skirt, with fragrance and slow smoking; It can also be mixed with various spices-Su Shi's "Er Yun Wang Gong" gradually lamented the lack of elegant fragrance, and the bun was far away, and the night language was clear.

Fumigation function: the fragrance of clothes smoked with spices is refreshing, not only deodorizing, expelling wind and turbidity, but also removing sweat.

Lavender fragrance: The lavender fragrance mentioned in Su Shi's poems is a condensed fragrance blended with spices such as agarwood and sandalwood. The formula of lavender fragrance recorded in Chen Jing's Chen Shi Fragrance Book in Song Dynasty is: raw agarwood, six taels of incense, sandalwood (fried with wax tea) and raw borneol (ground).

Wet fragrance formula: ancient fragrance is divided into "thousand fragrance" and "wet fragrance" This belongs to "wet fragrance". It is made by mashing the spices used for incense into powder, blending with honey, drying and wetting properly, and burning the incense sticks in a smoking cage.