Why do you hang wormwood on Dragon Boat Festival?
In addition to commemorating Qu Yuan, we hang calamus and mugwort leaves. The most important reason is that these items will produce some peculiar smells, which can help us purify the air. In traditional Chinese medicine, it can help us drive away cold, regulate our bodies, and also help us repel mosquitoes, which plays an important role in our daily life. At the same time, we also commemorate Qu Yuan on the Dragon Boat Festival, so that the shapes of Acorus calamus and Folium Artemisiae Argyi can be imagined as the waist edge of Qu Yuan, and let him serve as a musical association to avoid disaster.
Colorful rope symbolizes "colorful dragon"
We tie colored ropes to the children, because there is an important custom in the Dragon Boat Festival, which is to bring colored gods. We regard colorful gods as objects that can protect children from evil spirits. They are made of five kinds of silk threads, which can be hung around the neck as long-lived women, and can also be tied to the hands as objects for elders to pray and bless. We pay a lot of attention to the color and function of colored ropes, the most important ones are Qinglong, Suzaku, White Tiger, Xuanwu and so on.
Functions of Acorus calamus and Artemisia argyi
Acorus calamus and Folium Artemisiae Argyi have the effects of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. In traditional Chinese medicine, they are typical Chinese medicines, which can help us fumigate Artemisia argyi leaves to solve some uncomfortable problems. Therefore, at this time of the Dragon Boat Festival, because of the hot time, we can appropriately supplement some Chinese medicines to help us recuperate. Regulating qi and activating blood circulation to treat joint pain. Activating spleen and stomach to treat spleen and stomach diseases. Calm the nerves and treat insomnia. In order to prevent diseases, the ancient custom of tying fresh calamus and fresh Artemisia argyi leaves together and hanging them on doors and windows during the Dragon Boat Festival is to prevent plague, so it is said that calamus has the effects of expelling turbidity, detoxifying and exorcising evil spirits.