What wine to drink on Dragon Boat Festival?

Drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival: Drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival is a custom handed down from ancient times. As the saying goes, "drinking realgar wine will cure all diseases." Realgar is a mineral, commonly known as "Jiguanshi". Generally speaking, realgar wine is not simply drunk by adding a small amount of realgar to white wine or homemade rice wine. Realgar is a mineral containing arsenic trioxide, which is mixed with wine to drink. That is to say, the realgar wine with repellent and detoxification is applied to the child's head and forehead. Ears, nose, hands, feet and heart. Sprinkle the wall and ask, attack the law with poison. The story of "Legend of the White Snake" circulated among the people is to cure the snake's poison with realgar wine, and now the true colors of the white snake are revealed. This kind of learning is very popular among people in the Yangtze River valley. But from the point of view of modern medicine, drinking realgar wine is very harmful to human body. Even if you don't drink it, it is not advisable to just apply realgar wine to your child's head and body. Even if taken in small doses, it will do harm to the liver. Therefore, drinking realgar wine directly is generally not recommended.

2. Five drinks during the Dragon Boat Festival: "Five drinks are picked and brewed on the fifth day of May" is a folk custom. Acanthopanax senticosus is Acanthopanax senticosus skin, which smells bitter. Acanthopanax senticosus skin has a strange fragrance, which can nourish liver and kidney and strengthen bones and muscles. People believe that drinking five glasses of wine can ward off evil spirits. Acanthopanax senticosus is mainly used to treat hernia, abdominal pain, male impotence, enuresis, female low back pain and pain in both feet. Located in a humid area, it is especially suitable for drinking Wu Jia wine during the Dragon Boat Festival.

3. Drinking calamus wine during the Dragon Boat Festival: Another wine that is most drunk during the Dragon Boat Festival is calamus wine, which is brewed with calamus and wormwood leaves. In the Song Dynasty, Acorus calamus was regarded as a "thing to ward off evil spirits", so drinking Acorus calamus wine during the Dragon Boat Festival was very popular. As early as the pre-Qin period, there were records about the medicinal value of Acorus calamus in ancient books such as Shennong Herbal Classic and Zhouli. Soaking wine with calamus was the most popular in Ming Dynasty. Li Shizhen once pointed out in Compendium of Materia Medica that "Acorus calamus wine can cure thirty-six wind and twelve arthralgia, dredge blood vessels, treat bone flaccidity, and it will be effective if taken for a long time". Acorus calamus wine, produced in Yuanqu, Shanxi Province, is a kind of mixed wine, which is orange-yellow, slightly green, clear and transparent, with strong fragrance and harmonious medicinal fragrance, without losing the natural characteristics of Chinese herbal medicines. The entrance is sweet, sweet but not greasy, slightly medicinal, making people tired, refreshing, spicy but not choking, and refreshing after drinking. Alcohol content is 45 degrees, sugar 12 degrees.

4. Drinking yellow wine on Dragon Boat Festival: From a scientific point of view, realgar wine needs to be treated with caution, and yellow wine is beneficial to human health. Yellow rice wine is actually a kind of rice wine. Different from liquor, yellow rice wine has not been distilled, and its alcohol content is less than 20%. Different kinds of yellow rice wine also show different beige, brown or reddish brown. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that yellow wine can be used as medicine, and drinking it raw is effective for tachycardia, anorexia and irritability. Hot drinks can relieve symptoms such as blood stasis, lack of milk, rheumatoid arthritis, backache, numbness of hands and feet.