Why do you hang wormwood and calamus on the Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival is coming. Are you ready to go on holiday? Before the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival, major shopping malls and supermarkets have begun to publicize the Dragon Boat Festival, and various zongzi have appeared in the market. Do you like sweet zongzi or meat zongzi? Besides eating zongzi and roasting dragon boats, hanging wormwood and calamus is also one of the important customs. Then, why should wormwood and calamus be hung on the Dragon Boat Festival?

Why do you hang wormwood and calamus on the Dragon Boat Festival?

The reason why wormwood and calamus are hung on the Dragon Boat Festival is to ward off evil spirits, mosquitoes and evil spirits. Hanging mugwort leaves and calamus is a folk festival custom in China. On the Dragon Boat Festival, mugwort leaves are hung in the hall, cut into the shape of a tiger or cut into the shape of a tiger to cut the ribbon, and pasted with mugwort leaves. Women compete to wear them to drive away evil spirits.

There is a folk proverb that says, "Willows are inserted in Qingming Festival and Ai is inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, puts calamus and moxa sticks between their eyebrows and hangs them in the class.

On the Dragon Boat Festival, all kinds of flowers and plants that can drive away evil spirits and diseases have long been arranged. People regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as hanging wormwood on the door. It was first recorded in the Book of Jingchu Period: "Set wormwood as one person, hanging on the door, with poisonous gas."

This is because mugwort is an important medicinal plant, and it can also be used for treating diseases, moxibustion at acupoints and expelling insects. In May, Artemisia argyi leaves contain the most oil (at this time, it is in the peak period of warm growth), so the effect is the best, and people are scrambling to pick Artemisia argyi leaves.

"Ai", also known as Folium Artemisiae Argyi and Artemisia argyi, contains volatile aromatic oil in its stems and leaves, and its unique fragrance can repel mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants and purify the air. The leaves of Acorus calamus also contain volatile aromatic oil, which is a medicine for refreshing the brain, inducing resuscitation, strengthening bones, dispersing stagnation, killing insects and sterilizing.