Why do you drink realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival? Why do you want to drink realgar wine

Why do you drink realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival? According to the medical literature:"Realgar"It is also known as stone yellow, male essence, lavender yellow, ** stone.

It is produced in Hunan, Gansu, Yunnan, Sichuan and other places; The taste is bitter, warm, slightly pungent, and poisonous, and can be taken both externally and internally. Among them, the most special thing is that although realgar can be drunk in wine, because realgar has corrosive power, it must be instructed by a doctor and concocted in accordance with the ancient method of realgar wine can be drunk. Drinking realgar wine, it is said that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the people in order to avoid Qu Yuan's body being injured by the fish and dragon in the river, they threw zongzi and salted eggs into the river to feed the fish and dragon.

An old doctor brought a jar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that he wanted medicine to stun the fish and dragon. After a while, a faint dragon really floated on the surface of the water, and there was still a piece of clothing on the dragon's whiskers. So they pulled the dragon ashore, skinned it, cramped it, and relieved it of their hatred.

Then wrap the dragon tendons around the children's wrists and necks, and wipe the seven orifices with realgar wine. so that those poisonous snakes and pests do not dare to harm children with pure hearts like Qu Yuan. It is said that this is the origin of the later people who drank realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival.

So, why can realgar wine stun ichthyosaurs, and why are ichthyosaurs afraid of realgar? The ancients thought that the morning belonged to the dragon, and the morning was the time of the dragon-shaped rain, so in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the realgar wine was set up to drink and pray for rain in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, hoping to have a good year with smooth wind and rain and abundant harvest. In some places, in the early morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, people also like to sprinkle realgar wine or realgar water outside the house and apply it to children's ears, noses, foreheads and cheeks to avoid poisonous insects, mosquito and fly bites, and disperse the plague and poisonous gas.

However, modern science has proved that realgar contains strong carcinogens, and even small doses of ophthalmic realgar wine can cause damage to the liver, so the custom of drinking realgar wine should indeed be changed.

Realgar wine can ward off evil spirits.

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the people in Qu Yuan's hometown in order to prevent the dragon from eating Qu Yuan's body, they threw zongzi and salted eggs into the river, and an old doctor brought a jar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that it could stun the dragon and protect Qu Yuan.

So people pulled this dragon ashore, pulled its tendons, peeled its skin, and then wrapped the dragon tendons around the children's wrists and necks, and then wiped the seven orifices with realgar wine, so that the children could be protected from insects and snakes, and over time, the custom of drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival was formed.

The Dragon Boat Festival is to drink realgar wine.

Drinking realgar wine is one of the customs of the Han folk festival Dragon Boat Festival, in ancient times when there was no disinfectant such as iodine wine, soaking wine with realgar can detoxify and relieve itching. Children who have not reached the age of drinking, as adults, smear realgar wine on their foreheads, ears, nose, hands and feet, etc., which is intended to disinfect and prevent diseases, and prevent insects from biting. The custom of drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival was extremely popular in the Yangtze River basin in ancient times.

In ancient times, people believed that realgar and realgar wine could ward off ghosts and evil spirits and kill all kinds of poisons. In "The Legend of the White Snake", there is a plot where the White Lady accidentally drank realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival and showed her original form. In the pre-Qin era, May was regarded as a poisonous month, and the fifth day was regarded as an evil day.

Therefore, the ancients regarded this day as an epidemic prevention festival to avoid plague and poison.

** of the Dragon Boat Festival

According to legend, Qu Yuan advocated the empowerment of talents, the enrichment of the country and the strengthening of the army, and strongly advocated the joint fight against Qin, which was strongly opposed by the nobleman Zilan and others. In exile, he wrote poems such as "Lisao", "Tianwen", and "Nine Songs", which worried about the country and the people.

In 278 B.C., the Qin army broke through the Chu state of Kyoto, Qu Yuan saw his motherland being invaded, his heart was like a knife, but he could not bear to abandon his motherland, on May 5, after writing the masterpiece "Huaisha", he committed suicide by bouldering into the Miluo River, and composed a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.

After Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the local people immediately rowed a boat to rescue him when they heard the news, but they never found Qu Yuan's body again. In order to express their sorrows, people rowed on the river, and then gradually developed into a dragon boat race. The people were afraid that the fish in the river would eat his body, so they went home one after another to bring rice balls and throw them into the river, so as not to spoil Qu Yuan's body with fish and shrimp, and later it became the custom of eating zongzi.