What does the Dragon Boat Festival do??? What kind of alcohol to drink?

Wrapping zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, eating salted duck eggs, and what kind of wine to drink depends on your preferences.

Drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival is a custom that has been passed down since ancient times. As the old saying goes, "If you drink realgar wine, the sick will go away." Realgar is a mineral, commonly known as "cockscomb stone", the general drinking realgar wine, only in the liquor or self-brewed rice wine to add a trace of realgar, is not pure drinking.

Realgar wine has the effect of sterilization, deworming and detoxification, and is also used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat ** diseases. In ancient times, when there were no disinfectants such as iodine wine, realgar wine could also be used to dispel diseases and relieve itching. For children who can't drink alcohol, adults smear realgar wine on their foreheads, ears, nose, hands and feet, and other places, which is said to disinfect, prevent diseases, and prevent insects.

Of course, realgar wine should not be quoted too much, and modern medicine has proved that realgar wine is toxic. And the Dragon Boat Festival to drink the most another kind of wine is calamus wine, calamus wine is made of calamus, mugwort leaves, in the Song Dynasty, calamus is regarded as "the thing to ward off evil spirits", so later the Dragon Boat Festival drinking calamus wine to ward off evil spirits of the atmosphere is very popular.

And the Dragon Boat Festival also uses pure rice wine, which is rice wine. Modern medicine has proved that rice wine is rich in nutrients and has the effect of strengthening the body, so it is recommended to quote rice wine during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Of course, it's okay to drink any alcohol during the Dragon Boat Festival, as long as you like it, modern medicine says that drinking a small amount of alcohol often is good for your health, but you can't drink too much, let alone get drunk, and a moderate amount is the best.

It seems that most places drink realgar bars.

The wine drunk during the Dragon Boat Festival is pu wine, realgar wine, and cinnabar wine. The custom of drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival was extremely popular in the Yangtze River basin in ancient times. As the old saying goes, "If you drink realgar wine, the disease will go away", and drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival has the meaning of warding off evil and driving away poison.

The Dragon Boat Festival is in the hot summer, and applying realgar wine to the children's mouth and nose can keep the children from insects and snakes.

It is recorded in the "Jing Chu Years Chronicles": "With calamus or carving or crumbs, with cold wine." "Pu wine is fragrant and refreshing, and later it was added to the wine with realgar and cinnabar, and this custom spread widely.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, people use calamus and Ai Peng to dip wine and sprinkle them on the corners of the walls, doors and windows, under the bed, etc., and then use wine to coat children's ears, noses, and navels to repel poisonous insects.

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the people in his 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. Surprisingly, there was a dragon floating on the surface of the water.

So, people pulled the dragon ashore, cramped its tendons, and skinned it. After that, he wrapped the dragon tendons around the children's wrists and necks, and then wiped the seven orifices with realgar wine, believing that this would protect the children from insects and snakes.

It is said that this is the origin of drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of drinking realgar wine, stove trembling rice wine, calamus wine, and Wujia wine.

Realgar wine is a liquor or rice wine made of grinding realgar into powder, drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival is a custom handed down in ancient times, and the folk also have the saying that "after drinking realgar wine, the disease is far away".

Dragon Boat Festival drinking rice wine is very popular in the Yangtze River basin in China, rice wine is one of the oldest liquors in the world, originated in China, and only China has production, and beer, wine and called the world's three ancient wines.

Calamus wine is made of calamus, mugwort leaves, the Dragon Boat Festival drinking calamus wine has been debated for a long time, it has been very famous in the Han Dynasty, it has been used by the emperors of the past dynasties, and has been listed as the imperial meal fragrant mash of the past dynasties.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival, originated in China, was originally a festival for ancient ancestors to worship dragon ancestors in the form of dragon boat racing. Because of the legend that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu during the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River during the Dragon Boat Festival, people later took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; There are also sayings commemorating Wu Zixu, Cao Hao and Jie Zitui in some places.

In general, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the dragon totem sacrifice of the Wuyue tribe in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and was injected into the summer season to "dispel diseases and prevent epidemics.""The fashion, the Dragon Boat Festival as the "evil moon and evil day" started in the north, with a commemorative content of historical figures such as Qu Yuan, and finally formed the cultural connotation of the Dragon Boat Festival.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, you should drink realgar wine, because the weather will become hot after the Dragon Boat Festival, and at this time the snake and insect activities will be more frequent, and then drinking realgar wine can avoid being bitten by snakes and insects!