What is the meaning of wormwood and lavender in the Dragon Boat Festival?

Of course, wormwood is more meaningful in the New Year's Festival.

1. Epidemic prevention and exorcism.

Wormwood itself is a medicinal herb with medicinal value, and people often used wormwood to ** diseases in ancient times. In addition to its medicinal uses, the fragrance of wormwood purifies the air and enhances the awakening of the mind. Therefore, even if it is suspended, it can play a good role in epidemic prevention.

In addition, during the period before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, because of the hot and humid climate, there were always many epidemics during this time in ancient times, so wormwood was needed for epidemic prevention. This is also the reason why there is such a thing as dispensing medicine in the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Of course, in addition to the prevention and control of epidemics, wormwood is also a symbol of auspiciousness, in the tradition, it is a kind of Rui, so hanging it can also play a role in driving away evil spirits, harvesting auspicious beautiful meaning.

2. It can be eaten.

Since it can be used as a medicine, it is natural to be edible. However, people don't just eat it as medicine, they also use it as an ingredient in some foods to make some traditional and allegorical dishes. For example, during the Qingming Festival, many of the Qingtuan people eat are made with wormwood juice.

3. Mosquito repellent and medicine.

Wormwood has many effects as a traditional Chinese medicine, in addition to purifying the air and removing waste gases, it can also remove dampness and cold, anti-allergies and so on. Therefore, many people also use it to treat diseases, the most common is moxibustion. People make mugwort into moxa sticks, and in the process of acupuncture, it can have a good effect of dredging the meridians and driving away cold and dampness.

In addition, wormwood has a good effect of repelling insects and mosquitoes, and most people in ancient times would make it into a sachet to wear on their bodies to prevent mosquitoes.

Wormwood Our hometown has always had the custom of inserting wormwood on the door of the Dragon Boat Festival.

The significance of wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival: the legend that wormwood can drive away evil has been spread for a long time, because wormwood has the function of medicine, and can also repel mosquitoes and sterilize.

The Dragon Boat Festival is China's first festival to be selected as the world's intangible cultural heritage, and it is one of the four traditional festivals in China.

The name of the Dragon Boat Festival is the most common among all traditional festivals in China, reaching more than 20, including: Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Duanyang Festival, Ai Festival, May Festival, Calamus Festival, Herbal Medicine Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Dragon Day Festival, Zongzi Festival, Hiding Boat Festival, Jiezongzi Festival, Duanli Festival and so on.

The two iconic customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are dragon boat picking and eating zongzi, in addition, there are traditional customs such as hanging wormwood, noon water, soaking dragon boat water, and tying five-colored silk threads.

The differences between mugwort and wormwood during the Dragon Boat Festival are as follows:

1.Height and foliar morphology: Artemisia is lower in height, the main stem is relatively small, the stem is dark red, and the best growth of Artemisia is only about 10 cm.

Artemisia leaves, on the other hand, have a slightly thicker trunk, pale green stems, and slightly lignified (harder) roots near the ground, some up to centimeters in diameter and between 80-250 centimeters in height.

2.Leaf morphology: Artemisia leaves are usually thin, the front color is whitish, there will be a layer of white hairs, soft and smooth, the leaves are small, the sawtooth lines around it are deep, and the whole leaf is elongated and narrow.

The surface of the mugwort leaf is five-petaled gray-green, with white hairs on the back, the leaf surface looks chubby, the leaf is wider than that of Artemisia grass, and the serrations around the leaf are much smaller.

3.Fragrance: Mugwort is small in size, with small leaves and long strips, smooth and fluffy to the touch, and smells like grass. Wormwood, on the other hand, is tall, the leaves are thick and rough to the touch, and the leaves are relatively large, and they smell strong and fragrant.

Hopefully, the above information will help you distinguish between mugwort and wormwood.

The difference between mugwort and wormwood during the Dragon Boat Festival is in smell and taste.

Artemisia and wormwood do not belong to the same plant, but they are both plants of the Asteraceae family. Mugwort has a good taste when eaten and has the effect of dehumidifying. And the smell is also different between the two.

Mugwort generally exudes the smell of ordinary grass, and the taste of wormwood has a faint fragrance, and there is white fluff on the back of wormwood and the smell is fragrant.

The purpose of wormwood in the Dragon Boat Festival is: to ward off evil spirits and prevent plague diseases.

In the minds of the ancients, the Dragon Boat Festival is a poisonous day and an evil day, and this idea has been passed down in folk beliefs, so there are all kinds of customs to seek peace and relieve disasters. In fact, this is due to the fact that the weather is hot and dry in summer, people are prone to illness, and plague is also prone to epidemics; In addition, snakes and insects breed and are easy to bite people, so you should be very careful, which is why this habit is formed.

Wormwood stands for Zhao Baifu, a medicinal herb that can cure diseases, and when inserted at the door, it can make the body healthy. In ancient China, it has always been a medicinal plant, and the moxibustion method in acupuncture is to use wormwood as the main ingredient and burn it on the acupuncture points to cure diseases.

The legend that wormwood can ward off evil spirits has been spread for a long time, mainly because it has the function of medicine, and ordinary people also have the custom of planting wormwood in front and back of the house to seek good luck.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, the air becomes hot and humid, bacteria are easy to breed, fumigation can effectively inhibit the number of colonies of bacteria in the air at home, and can repel mosquitoes and avoid miasma.

The Dragon Boat Festival is an important traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the traditional cultural activities in China. And wormwood also plays an indispensable role in the Dragon Boat Festival.

First of all, wormwood is one of the important items in the Dragon Boat Festival. One of the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival is to sprinkle mugwort leaf water, boiling water with mugwort leaves, in order to drive away evil spirits and eliminate miasma, sterilization and disinfection. Wormwood can also be used to make sachets, pendants, etc., and plays an irreplaceable role in the traditional festival of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Secondly, wormwood also has a strong cultural connotation. According to historical records, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is related to Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan is a person with a high literary literacy, he is the author of "Chu Ci", good at singing and dancing, and has the reputation of "folk songs and national style".

Qu was worried about the country and the people, and committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, and in order to commemorate him, the people used a boat and pressed wormwood to express their nostalgia during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Finally, wormwood also carries a rich cultural development. In the Han Dynasty of our country, people compressed into pieces of mugwort leaves, strung with cotton threads into mugwort or cross-stitch, such handmade products over time, more and more important in traditional culture. Now, wormwood is also processed into traditional folk practical products such as mugwort bags and moxa sticks, which not only protect people's lives and health, but also inherit the essence of traditional culture.

In short, the relationship between the Dragon Boat Festival and Ailing Qicao is closely linked, and wormwood not only occupies a place in traditional folk cultural activities, but also has become an important industry and business opportunity in the development of the times, and we must continue to carefully protect and inherit this important folk culture.

Dragon Boat Festival wormwood has the effects of asthma, antitussive, dampness and cold. Anti-asthmatic and antitussive, wormwood has the effect of antitussive, asthmatic and expectorant, and can help relieve the uncomfortable symptoms caused by chronic bronchitis or asthma in the elderly.

Dispel dampness and dispel cold, wormwood has a bitter, pungent and warm taste, enters the spleen, liver and kidney, has the effect of dissipating cold and dehumidifying, and can be used for rheumatoid arthritis and female deficiency and cold. It is recommended that patients with yin deficiency and blood fever, yin deficiency and fire are expected to avoid adverse reactions.