The custom of hanging mugwort leaves on the Dragon Boat Festival, there is a folk proverb that says "willow is inserted in Qingming Festival, mugwort leaves are inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, puts calamus and moxa sticks between their eyebrows and hangs them in the class. Acorus calamus, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Liu Hua, Garlic and Dragon Boat Flower are made into human or tiger shapes, which are called Ai Ren and Ai Hu. It is made into garlands and decorations, beautiful and fragrant, and women compete to wear it to ward off evil spirits.
There is a folk proverb that says, "Willows are inserted in Qingming Festival, and Ai is inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents.
The origin of hanging mugwort leaves on the Dragon Boat Festival In the late Tang Dynasty, there were frequent wars, numerous murders, panic and fleeing everywhere. One day, Huang Chao saw a sister-in-law, holding a child in her hand and carrying a big child on her back. Curious, she asked her, "Who is on your back and who is in your hand?" The eldest sister-in-law replied with tears: "The big one on my back is my brother-in-law, and the little one in my hand is my own son." Huang Chao was puzzled and asked, "Why on earth is this? Why are you like this? " My sister-in-law replied, "Although my brother-in-law is older than my son, my in-laws have all escaped, and I am old and weak, and I have no fertility. I am young, I just lost my son, and I will have children in the future. If the brother-in-law is killed by Huang Chao, he will lose a fragrance. " Hearing this, Huang Chao blushed and felt ashamed, thinking: A woman's family can still be so filial and know how to be a man. Why don't I go with the flow, sell my feelings and let them have a rest? He said to his sister-in-law, "Sister-in-law, it's rare that you are so kind. In order to avoid being killed, you can hang calamus and mugwort leaves on the door during the Dragon Boat Festival, which will be useful. " After bidding farewell to Huang Chao, Sister-in-law took her son and uncle back to her village and told her neighbors along the way. It spread all over Jiangnan overnight, especially Taizhou. On the Dragon Boat Festival, Huang Chao came to the south of the Yangtze River with a great army, only to find that there were calamus swords and mugwort leaves hanging on the doors of every household. If he kills the eldest sister-in-law, he may kill her by mistake and break his promise. So let his soldiers make a detour and don't disturb the people of Taizhou. Therefore, during the Dragon Boat Festival, it has become a local custom for people all over Taizhou to hang calamus and insert mugwort leaves on their doors. And there are poems to prove it. Folium Artemisiae Argyi is a banner for blessing, and Acorus calamus is a sword for exorcism.
The Significance of Hanging Folium Artemisiae Argyi on the Dragon Boat Festival There is a reason why wormwood, calamus (Pujian), pomegranate and garlic are hung at the entrance of the Dragon Boat Festival. Usually mugwort leaves, banyan trees and calamus are tied into a bundle with red paper and then inserted or hung on the door. Because Acorus calamus is the head of five pistils in the sky, symbolizing evil sword, because the growing season and shape are regarded as "the spirit of a hundred yin", and the leaves are sword-shaped and can be inserted at the door to ward off evil spirits. Therefore, the alchemist called it "water sword", and later the custom extended to "general sword", which can cut off all evil. In the Qing Dynasty, Gu Tieqing recorded in Jia Qinglu that "chopping Pu as a sword, chopping Peng as a whip, and hanging peach stalks and garlic on the bed are all used to exorcise ghosts".
However, in the local chronicles of the Jin Dynasty, there is "mourning for the tiger, or cutting the ribbon for the tiger, with mourning attached to the leaves, and the wife fighting to cut it." In the future, it will be calamus, or human form, or Xiao Jian shape, called Pujian, to drive away evil spirits and ghosts. "
Wormwood represents a hundred blessings and is a kind of herbal medicine that can cure diseases. Inserting it at the door can make you healthy. In ancient China, it has always been a medicinal plant. Moxibustion in acupuncture uses wormwood as the main component and burns it at acupoints to treat diseases. The legend that wormwood can exorcise evil spirits has been circulating for a long time, mainly because it has the function of medicine. For example, Zonggu's Chronicle of Jingchu records that "when chickens are not crowing, those who pick wormwood look like people, take it and collect it with moxibustion, which is very effective." On this day, Ai Cai became a human figure, hung on the door, and could cast poison gas. "
Most people also have the custom of planting wormwood in front of and behind their houses for good luck. People in Taiwan Province Province also put up "afternoon couplets" on the Dragon Boat Festival, which have the same function as amulets. There is a saying in some afternoon couplets: "Holding a strange love will attract a hundred blessings, and hanging a sword to close the door will kill a thousand evils". The folk significance of banyan branches can make the body strong. "It is braver to insert banyan trees, and it is braver to insert mugwort leaves". There is also the local custom of hanging pomegranate, garlic or Shandan, and garlic is used to eliminate disasters and treat pests and poisons; Shandan can cure madness, pomegranate can avoid Huang Chao. Pomegranate flower is the flower of this season, and it also has the function of treating diseases. Pomegranate peel is a common Chinese medicine.
Hanging wormwood: the folk proverb says, "Insert willow in Qingming Festival and wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival". On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, puts calamus and moxa sticks between their eyebrows and hangs them in the class. Acorus calamus, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Liu Hua, Garlic and Dragon Boat Flower are made into human or tiger shapes, which are called Ai Ren and Ai Hu. It is made into garlands and decorations, beautiful and fragrant, and women compete to wear it to ward off evil spirits.
Artemisia argyi, also known as Artemisia argyi and Artemisia argyi. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils. Its unique fragrance can repel mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants and purify the air. Chinese medicine uses wormwood as medicine, which has the functions of nourishing qi and blood, warming uterus and dispelling cold and dampness. Processing Artemisia argyi leaves into "moxa wool" is an important medicinal material for moxibustion treatment.
It can be seen that ancient people inserted moxa to prevent diseases. Dragon Boat Festival is also a "health festival" handed down from ancient times. On this day, people sweep the courtyard, hang branches of mugwort and sprinkle realgar wine, which can suppress turbidity, remove rot, sterilize and prevent diseases. These activities also reflect the fine traditions of the Chinese nation. It is a common custom for all ethnic groups in China to collect herbs on the Dragon Boat Festival.
Legend of hanging wormwood on Dragon Boat Festival There is a custom of hanging wormwood in front of your house on Dragon Boat Festival. In folklore, this grass is an Excalibur.
Legend has it that in ancient times, the monster wanted to drown some places for his own territory, but this idea was known by the gods in the sky. God pitied the people on the ground and thought of a way.
The immortal cut wormwood and calamus into swords and went to fight the water monster first. After several days and nights, the immortal finally won. The water monster promised the immortal that as long as it is the descendant of the immortal, it will not infringe. If it can't, it will be hacked to death by the gods. The fairy agreed, and they agreed that as long as people hung wormwood and calamus on the wall, they belonged to fairies, and if not, they belonged to monsters.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, the water monster braved the wind and waves. When the waves come to the eaves of a family, the monster will always see a pile of wormwood and calamus hanging under the eaves of this family, running to many places like swords, only flooding some empty houses where no one lives. Finally, it got dark, so the monster had to go back in a bad mood.
It turned out that after the duel that day, the fairy sprinkled wormwood and calamus used as swords on the houses where people lived, so this scene appeared. Later, on the Dragon Boat Festival, people would hang some wormwood and calamus on the wall to scare away the monsters and save their houses and property.
Dragon Boat Festival is called Duanyang Festival in France. According to the Chronicle of Jingchu, midsummer is because midsummer is crisp and sunny, and the sky is clear in Wan Li. Its first afternoon is a good day to climb the mountain, and the sun is shining, so it is called Duanyang Festival on May 5th.
Mid-Autumn Festival, at noon, belongs to twelve branches. In the lunar calendar, May is noon, and five and five are homophonic, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Double Five Festival, and in some places it is also called the May Festival.
As for the Zhongtian Festival, the ancients thought that on May 5th, the sun re-entered the sky, so it was called "Zhongtian Festival".
Bathing Orchid Festival, Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, which is a season with frequent skin diseases. The ancients bathed and decontaminated with Cao Lan soup. The Great Dai Li in the Han Dynasty said, "Wash blue soup in the afternoon".
Xiezong Festival, when the ancients ate brown on the Dragon Boat Festival, there was a competition to compare the length of each person's leaves, and the elders won, so it was also called Xiezong Festival.
Daughter's Day, "Miscellaneous Notes" is listed by Ming and Shen: "May Daughter's Day is the Dragon Boat Festival, wearing mugwort leaves and five poisonous symbols. From May 1st to May 5th, Su Wan played a little girl. She was very beautiful. Married women also have their own motherhood. Because it's called Daughter's Day. " Shen Bangwan's Miscellaneous Notes records: "From May 1st to 5th, the Yanjing family decorated their youngest daughter beautifully. Married women will also return to their homes in Liu Hua. This day is called Daughter's Day.
On the calamus festival, the ancients thought that "heavy noon" was a taboo day, and at this time, the five poisons were exhausted. Therefore, the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to drive away poison, such as hanging calamus and mugwort leaves on the door, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Acorus Festival".
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