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Anonymous users2024-02-12Legend has it that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the people in Qu Yuan's hometown threw zongzi and salted eggs into the river in order to prevent the dragon from eating Qu Yuan's body. 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. After a while, a dragon really floated on the surface of the water.
So, people pulled the dragon ashore, pulled its tendons, skinned it, and then wrapped the dragon tendons around the children's wrists and necks, and then wiped the seven orifices with realgar wine, hoping that this would protect the children from insects and snakes.
Realgar wine is a liquor or rice wine brewed with realgar ground into powder, and it is the drink of the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Realgar needs to be dried in the sun, and some are dried from the first day of May to the fifth day of the first month. So far, many places in China have the habit of drinking realgar wine.
As a traditional Chinese medicine, realgar wine can be used as an antidote and insecticide. Therefore, the ancient people believed that realgar can restrain snakes, scorpions and other insects, "good can kill a hundred poisons, ward off a hundred evils, make Gu poison, people wear it, enter the mountains and forests and tigers and wolves ambush, enter the river and avoid a hundred poisons."
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Anonymous users2024-02-11The origin of realgar wine is the ancient Dragon Boat Festival, which means to drive away evil spirits and clear bad luck.
In the beginning, there were two types of realgar wines, namely mineral realgar wines and herbal realgar wines. There is still an essential difference between these two types of realgar wine, mineral realgar wine is made of traditional realgar stone soaked into wine, mainly used on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, through the way of skillful sprinkling, to drive away evil spirits and avoid insects, it is not drinkable.
The herbal realgar wine is made of Eucommia ulmoides androgynous and yellow essence into the peerless rice wine, which is drinkable, and the realgar wine is rich and mellow, which is deeply loved by everyone and has been passed down to this day. Realgar needs to be dried in the sun, and some are dried from the first day of May to the fifth day of the first month. So far, many places in China have the habit of drinking realgar wine.
Although realgar wine has a long history and culture, it is rarely seen in modern times.
The culture and customs of realgar wine
There are many stories and legends about realgar wine in Chinese history. One of the most famous is the plot in "The Legend of the White Snake". The White Lady is a thousand-year-old white snake spirit, she and Xu Xian fall in love and become a couple.
But the monk Fahai wanted to break them up, so on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, he sent a jar of realgar wine to Xu Xian and told him to drink it with his wife. The white lady didn't know the power of realgar wine, and after taking a sip, she lost control and showed her original form.
In fact, in the Tang and Song dynasties, drinking realgar wine, that is a luxury, not ordinary people can enjoy, the Dragon Boat Festival drinking realgar and wide open wine custom has not spread. After the Ming Dynasty, the mining volume of ore went up, and the refining technology became more efficient, which could increase the output of realgar and finally lower the ** of realgar. Every household was able to afford it, and the custom of drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival began to spread widely.
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