The annual
Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon!
I believe that everyone is happiest when
can take a holiday again!
In addition to
eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats...
In fact, the earliest Dragon Boat Festival was the National Hygiene Day
This day was cleaned and dewormed.
Therefore, it is a festival for people to eliminate diseases and prevent epidemics.
The epidemic has reoccurred recently.
Our epidemic prevention work cannot be relaxed.
Today, let’s follow Xiaoyi to learn about the epidemic prevention customs in this traditional Chinese festival
Dragon Boat Festival
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About "Dragon Boat Festival"
Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the lunar calendar The fifth day of the fifth
"Duan", the beginning of the month
"Noon" is according to the lunar calendar, May is the noon month
According to our country's traditional yin and yang numbers and seasons,
Noon is yang, and double noon is the highest yang;
The ancients regarded the noon time of the Dragon Boat Festival as the three noon hours overlap each other,
as the extremely yang time, which can best ward off yin evil.
The ancients believed that
Dragon Boat Festival is the day of the year when herbal medicines have the strongest medicinal properties.
Herbal medicines collected on this day are most effective in curing diseases and preventing epidemics.
As the weather gets hotter in summer, various pests and diseases of rats and mice multiply rapidly.
Therefore, many Dragon Boat Festival customs are related to warding off evil spirits and eliminating diseases.
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Unexpectedly, the earliest purpose of eating rice dumplings was to cure diseases and prevent epidemics. "The Huangdi Neijing " says, "Xia Yangyang". Heat is a yang evil, and its nature is rising and dispersing, which easily consumes qi and damages body fluids. "Injury to body fluid" means "injury to spleen". The main raw material of Zongzi is glutinous rice. Medical sage Sun Simiao believes that "glutinous rice is suitable for spleen disease , as it can replenish qi and stop diarrhea." " Compendium of Materia Medica " also states: "Glutinous rice warms the spleen and stomach." Glutinous rice can invigorate the spleen, replenish qi and promote fluid production, thereby achieving the purpose of driving away plague, warding off evil spirits, removing contamination, and removing toxins.
As the saying goes, "Willow trees are planted during the Qingming Festival and mugwort is hung at the Dragon Boat Festival." The "Fengtu Zhi" of the Jin Dynasty mentioned: "Use mugwort in the shape of a tiger, or cut the ribbon into a small tiger, and post it with mugwort leaves, and everyone will compete to cut it. More in the future Calamus , either in human form or in the shape of a sword, is called Pujian, used to drive away evil spirits and expel ghosts." In this season when mosquitoes are rampant and bacteria breed, the strong smell of mugwort can repel insects and eliminate bacteria, and so can calamus.
Fighting grass is a folk game derived from picking herbs. On the Dragon Boat Festival, you go out and find some exotic flowers and plants to compete with each other. The one with the novelty or the most variety wins. The origin is unknown, but it is generally believed to be related to the emergence of traditional Chinese medicine and . Fighting with grass tells each other the names of flowers and grasses in the form of a duel, and the one with the most wins, which combines the fun of plant knowledge and literary knowledge; children use the petioles to hook each other, pinch and pull each other, and the one who breaks them loses, and then fights with another leaf.
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The Han Dynasty's "Da Dai Li " contains: "Bathing in orchid soup at noon." This "orchid" is not an orchid, but an orchid from the Asteraceae family. It is fragrant and can be boiled for bathing. Later generations generally used boiled pu moi and other herbs. The ancients believed that bathing in orchid soup can remove dirt and toxins.
Ying Shao of the Eastern Han Dynasty recorded in " Customs ": "On May 5th, the arms were tied with colorful silk, and the name was long-lived. One person continued to swear his life, one was a soldier, and the other was a five-color thread. , a Zhu Suo, protects against soldiers and ghosts, and protects people from diseases." In order to pray for the health and safety of the children, five-color threads are tied around the children's wrists, ankles, and necks.
The most famous legend about drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival is undoubtedly the story of The White Snake drinking realgar wine and revealing her true form in "The Legend of White Snake". After the Dragon Boat Festival, as the temperature rises, poisonous gases begin to appear, and epidemic diseases emerge. As a traditional Chinese medicinal material for detoxification and insecticide, ancient people believed that realgar could "kill hundreds of poisons, ward off hundreds of evil spirits, and control poisonous poisons".
During the Dragon Boat Festival, the ancients still had the custom of smearing the forehead of children with realgar. The typical method is to use realgar wine to draw the word "王" on the forehead of the child. And the tiger is the king of beasts, so it is used instead of tiger to suppress evil. In addition to smearing on the forehead, nose and ears, it can also be smeared on other places with the same intention. Shanxi's "Hequ County Chronicle" says: "On Dragon Boat Festival, drink realgar wine and apply it on children's forehead, hands and soles... It can cure diseases and prolong life."
picture | Xu Xufeng
Dragon boat rowing originated from primitive society and was an activity for the ancient Yue people to worship the water god. The Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is a festival when the dragon ascends to heaven. Sacrificing the dragon in the form of dragon boat rowing is an important etiquette and custom theme of the Dragon Boat Festival. This custom is still practiced in southern my country today. It is still popular along the coast. In the old days, when people worshiped the dragon god, the atmosphere was very solemn. They prayed for a good harvest, good weather, evil spirits, disasters, everything goes well, and for safe boating.
As the saying goes, "Bring a vanilla bag" , not afraid of five pests." A sachet is a sachet that holds fragrant powder; the fragrant powder is made from a mixture of traditional Chinese medicines such as Angelica dahurica , Chuanxiong , and baicalensis, which can also repel insects and prevent epidemics.
Picture | Xu Xufeng
Count, what Dragon Boat Festival customs have you done?
Here, Xiaoyi has also prepared some Dragon Boat Festival gifts to send to you
Provided by Shanghai Folk Literary Artists Association member and
knitting artist He Peihua
Dragon Boat Festival sachets
Interested viewers can enter the page below to register
We will draw 10 lucky readers
to get this small gift
Finally, Xiaoyi wishes everyone a healthy Dragon Boat Festival!
Editor | Xin Ying
Beauty editor |Yinyun
Some pictures come from the Internet
