The traditional view of Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, but judging from the activities of the festival, it is closely related to the season. The Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, and the weather becomes hot and humid. Especially in the south, epidemic gas and poisonous insects are rampant, and people can't adapt for a while, which is easy to cause diseases. For this reason, all the activities of the Dragon Boat Festival are mainly to avoid evil spirits and drugs.
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Other customs
1, drink realgar
People drink medicinal liquor made of calamus and realgar. Both are medicinal materials, and realgar is also poisonous. Fighting poison with poison is also a way for the ancients to prevent diseases and exorcise evil spirits.
2. Hanging Pu Jian
Carve the leaves of Acorus calamus into human shape or gourd shape and wear them on your head; Or woven into a sword shape and hung at the door, which is called "Pu Jian" in history to ward off evil spirits. It is also useful to weave mugwort leaves into tiger shapes or human figures, hang them on the door and wear them on your head-mugwort leaves contain volatile aromatic oil, which can repel mosquitoes. There are also five-color peach blossom prints hanging on the door, 6 inches long and 3 inches wide, made of peach wood and engraved with five-color Chinese characters. That purpose is naturally to ward off evil spirits.
People's Daily Online-What the ancients should do during the Dragon Boat Festival 10: Drink realgar wine, which is a little forehead for children.