Why do you hang wormwood on Dragon Boat Festival?

There are many festivals in China, such as Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, China Valentine's Day and Dragon Boat Festival, among which Dragon Boat Festival is one of the most important traditional cultures in China. Here are the reasons why I hang wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival for your reference!

Why do you hang wormwood on Dragon Boat Festival?

Literally speaking, this "ai" is a polyphonic word, pronounced as ài and y √. As the name of a plant, when reading "ài", there is a word called "in the ascendant", which means "at the beginning, it has not stopped, describing the vigorous development of things". In this way, from the analysis of the composition of Chinese characters, the reason why wormwood is called "Ai" is that it was born from the original meaning and got its name. In addition, it has the function of repelling mosquitoes in midsummer and is a seasonal plant. It is natural for people to choose wormwood planting during the Dragon Boat Festival. Hanging wormwood and calamus at the entrance of the Dragon Boat Festival is like putting a spell on it, which can benefit and avoid harm. Inserting it at the door represents a hundred blessings and can make the owner healthy. Mosquito repellent, mugwort leaves can give off a unique fragrance and can effectively repel mosquitoes. When camping outdoors, lighting mugwort leaves can drive away poisonous insects such as mosquitoes and flies and improve safety.

1, good luck

Most people also have the custom of planting wormwood in front of and behind their houses for good luck. People in Taiwan Province Province also put up "afternoon couplets" on the Dragon Boat Festival, which have the same function as amulets. There is a saying in some afternoon couplets: "Holding a strange love will attract a hundred blessings, and hanging a sword to close the door will kill a thousand evils". The folk significance of banyan branches can make the body strong. "It is braver to insert banyan trees, and it is braver to insert mugwort leaves". There is also the local custom of hanging pomegranate, garlic or Shandan, and garlic is used to eliminate disasters and treat pests and poisons; Shandan can cure madness, pomegranate can avoid Huang Chao. Pomegranate flower is the flower of this season, and it also has the function of treating diseases. Pomegranate peel is a common Chinese medicine. There is also a story about the relationship between pomegranate flower and Huang Chao. During the Huang Chao Uprising, Huang Chao once passed a village and happened to see a woman with a big child on her back and a child in her hand. Huang Chao was curious and asked why. Women don't know Huang Chao, just say that because Huang Chao came and killed her uncle's family, this is the only remaining lifeline, so if she can't attend to both, she will sacrifice her own flesh and blood to save her uncle's flesh and blood. Huang Chao was deeply moved and told the woman that as long as pomegranate flowers were hung on the door, the disaster in Huang Chao could be avoided.

2, exorcise ghosts and evil spirits

There are reasons for hanging wormwood, calamus (Pujian), pomegranate and garlic at the entrance of Dragon Boat Festival. Usually mugwort leaves, banyan trees and calamus are tied into a bundle with red paper and then inserted or hung on the door. Because Acorus calamus is the head of five pistils in the sky, symbolizing evil sword, because the growing season and shape are regarded as "the spirit of a hundred yin", and the leaves are sword-shaped and can be inserted at the door to ward off evil spirits. Therefore, the alchemist called it "water sword", and later the custom extended to "general sword", which can cut off all evil. In the Qing Dynasty, Gu Tieqing recorded in Jia Qinglu that "chopping Pu as a sword, chopping Peng as a whip, and hanging peach stalks and garlic on the bed are all used to exorcise ghosts".

However, in the local chronicles of the Jin Dynasty, there is "mourning for the tiger, or cutting the ribbon for the tiger, with mourning attached to the leaves, and the wife fighting to cut it." In the future, it will be calamus, or human form, or Xiao Jian shape, called Pujian, to drive away evil spirits and ghosts. "

3. Zhao Baifu

Wormwood represents a hundred blessings and is a kind of herbal medicine that can cure diseases. Inserting it at the door can make you healthy. In ancient China, it has always been a medicinal plant. Moxibustion in acupuncture uses wormwood as the main component and burns it at acupoints to treat diseases. The legend that wormwood can exorcise evil spirits has been circulating for a long time, mainly because it has the function of medicine. For example, Zonggu's Chronicle of Jingchu records that "when chickens are not crowing, those who pick wormwood look like people, take it and collect it with moxibustion, which is very effective." On this day, Ai Cai became a human figure, hung on the door, and could cast poison gas. "

The origin of hanging wormwood on Dragon Boat Festival

There is a custom of hanging wormwood at home during the Dragon Boat Festival. In folklore, this grass is an Excalibur.

Legend has it that in ancient times, the monster wanted to drown some places for his own territory, but this idea was known by the gods in the sky. God pitied the people on the ground and thought of a way.

The immortal cut wormwood and calamus into swords and went to fight the water monster first. After several days and nights, the immortal finally won. The water monster promised the immortal that as long as it is the descendant of the immortal, it will not infringe. If it can't, it will be hacked to death by the gods. The fairy agreed, and they agreed that as long as people hung wormwood and calamus on the wall, they belonged to fairies, and if not, they belonged to monsters.

On the Dragon Boat Festival, the water monster braved the wind and waves. When the waves come to the eaves of a family, the monster will always see a pile of wormwood and calamus hanging under the eaves of this family, running to many places like swords, only flooding some empty houses where no one lives. Finally, it got dark, so the monster had to go back in a bad mood.

It turned out that after the duel that day, the fairy sprinkled wormwood and calamus used as swords on the houses where people lived, so this scene appeared. Later, on the Dragon Boat Festival, people would hang some wormwood and calamus on the wall to scare away the monsters and save their houses and property.

How to hang wormwood, what are the stresses?

There are many things to hang wormwood, the first one is time. Generally, mugwort leaves and calamus are hung for breakfast during the Dragon Boat Festival, but some places hang them a few days before the Dragon Boat Festival. The second is the hanging method, in which wormwood, garlic and calamus are generally tied into a bundle with red paper, and then inserted or hung on the gate. As for the specific dosage of wormwood, there is no hard and fast rule. Generally, one or several mugwort sticks are hung on one side of the gate. The third is the suspension time. There is no regulation on this. Generally, after a month, when the wormwood dries up and no longer emits fragrance, it will be taken down. Then you can burn it to smoke the room, and the mosquito repellent effect is very good.