Where should wormwood be hung? What is the point of hanging wormwood?

Wormwood hangs on the door as follows:

1. If there are pregnant women and babies at home, wormwood can not be hung, the smell of wormwood is very strong, and this smell will have a greater impact on pregnant women. In addition, if there are newborn babies in the house, they should not hang wormwood, because their bodies are relatively delicate and they are easy to feel uncomfortable when smelling wormwood.

2. To eat wormwood boiled eggs, around the Dragon Boat Festival, wormwood is a time of the year when the nutritional value is quite high, in addition to hanging after picking, it can also be eaten. Wormwood can be made into a lot of delicious food, wormwood Qingtuan, wormwood steamed buns, wormwood jelly and so on have a unique flavor. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the old people in the family will tell us to eat boiled eggs with mugwort leaves.

Hanging wormwood is a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, usually can be hung, generally hung on the door of the home, wormwood has the effect of removing insects, very suitable for hanging at home, especially in summer.

Wormwood should be hung at the head of your bed, and when hanging wormwood, you should pay attention to picking wormwood that is relatively fresh, and it can also be put in a sachet.

At the door, it generally needs to be cooked, and a large handful of such hangings will be much better.

To be hung at the head of the bed. In ancient legends, it was generally able to ward off evil spirits. It also helps us to strengthen our immunity and relieve pain.

Avoiding the "five poisons" means wealth and peace. It can also repel mosquitoes and sterilize, purify the air, etc. Artemisia artemisia leaves are used as medicine, which has the functions of warming menstruation, removing dampness, dissipating cold, stopping bleeding, eliminating inflammation, relieving asthma, relieving cough, stabilizing the fetus, and anti-allergies.

It is recorded in the medical books of the past dynasties as "medicine to stop bleeding", and it is one of the most commonly used medicines. <

Avoiding the "five poisons" means wealth and peace. It can also repel mosquitoes and sterilize, purify the air, etc. Artemisia artemisia leaves are used as medicine, which has the functions of warming menstruation, removing dampness, dissipating cold, stopping bleeding, reducing inflammation, relieving asthma, relieving cough, stabilizing the fetus, and anti-allergies.

The medical books of the past dynasties have recorded that the blood should be eliminated by the medicine banquet", and it is one of the most commonly used medicines.

The stems and leaves of wormwood contain volatile aromatic oils, which produce a peculiar aroma that can repel mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants, and purify the air. In traditional Chinese medicine, it is believed that it has the function of rationalizing qi and blood, warming the uterus, and dispelling cold and dampness, and is an important medicinal material for moxibustion. In addition, the whole herb is used as an insecticidal pesticide or fumigated smoke as a room disinfection and insecticide.

Mugwort is dried and crushed into mugwort powder, which is a high-quality feed additive for livestock and poultry. It can also be used as a natural plant dye.

Hang upside down at the door, and not too much. Hanging wormwood must not be short or broken. There are also some wormwood that is broken or gnawed by insects, which is generally not used.

Tie wormwood with a red rope and hang it with the roots facing up. It should be hung on or next to the door frame, usually on the side of the person.

You don't need to hang too much, generally a few sticks are tied together and hung upside down at the door, too much will also affect the beauty.

The kind of gate of the rural hall house is generally hung on one side, and some of the ones in the city are not easy to hang, so a bunch is hung on the side of the door.

The meaning of hanging wormwood:

The meaning of mugwort leaves is to drive away bad luck, people insert mugwort leaves in the door or hang them on the door, hoping that mugwort leaves can drive away all kinds of bad luck, expressing people's yearning for a better life. Mugwort leaves have a good meaning, and they can also be made into sachets and worn on the body.

Wormwood is a mosquito repellent in rural areas, and in the past, herders grazing in the north often used wormwood to deal with the epidemic of mosquitoes. The growth of wormwood is relatively common, when I was a child, wormwood grew in the fields of my hometown, and the growth was particularly vigorous, and I found a large area.

Ways to hang wormwood:

Hanging wormwood still has some particularity, that is, "early hanging is better than hanging late, upside down is better than hanging shun", follow these two principles, if you go to find wormwood in the countryside, you can go out earlier, because in summer, the day dawns earlier, you can go to the field to find some wormwood, when looking for wormwood, you should find some wormwood that grows very well, the longer the better, so that it is very beautiful to hang on the door.

You can hang wormwood on the first day of the first month of May, and there is a place to hang wormwood on the fifth day of the fifth day of the fifth month of May, which is also okay, but it is recommended to hang wormwood in the morning, after the wormwood is retrieved, tie him and the iris together, it is best to use a red wool thread to tie the iris and wormwood together, and hang it on the door so beautiful and good-looking, so when passing the wormwood is "it is better to hang early than late".

When passing wormwood, "it is better to hang upside down than to hang it upside down", according to the traditional saying of the countryside, it is to hang the root of wormwood on the top of the door, and the stem of wormwood is facing down, so that it looks good, and it should be hung long, not short, so that hanging is a tradition, if you hang it along it will feel unsightly.

It should also be noted that when hanging wormwood, it is generally hung on the right side of the door, and it is also hung on the right side of the window when hanging on the window.

Reasons for hanging wormwood.

In the countryside, there is a saying that "willows are inserted during the Qingming Festival, and wormwood is inserted during the Dragon Boat Festival", which means that willow branches should be inserted at the door during the Qingming Festival, and wormwood and calamus should be inserted at the door during the Dragon Boat Festival. Wormwood is common in rural areas, its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils, and its unique smell can not only repel mosquitoes and flies, purify the air, but also be a traditional Chinese medicine. Calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, its leaves are narrow and long, like wormwood, calamus also contains volatile aromatic oils, which have the effect of insecticidal sterilization and refreshing.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather will become hotter and hotter, and the rainfall will become more and more frequent, in the environment of high temperature and humidity, pests and germs breed, so in order to avoid the adverse impact of pests and germs on the human body, people will hang wormwood and calamus in front of the door and window to repel mosquitoes and flies, sterilize and prevent diseases.