Do you have to pick mugwort leaves on Dragon Boat Festival? When is the best time to pick mugwort leaves?
Artemisia argyi leaves don't have to be picked on the Dragon Boat Festival. The reason why they hang up is that some poisonous insects will resurface around the Dragon Boat Festival, hurting people or infecting people with diseases they contracted during the dormant period. Artemisia argyi is needed to repel insects and sterilize. The ancients called it exorcism. Artemisia argyi has the highest efficacy in this period, and has the best bactericidal effect on the germs that appear in this period. The effect of realgar wine is similar to that of mugwort.
The origin of hanging wormwood on Dragon Boat Festival;
Legend has it that women and children dated each other in Tang Dynasty.
The custom of hanging wormwood and calamus on the door during the Dragon Boat Festival is said to come from such a legend. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao led the troops to revolt. In May this year, Huang Chao's army arrived in Dengzhou at the gates. Huang Chao rode out of town to survey the terrain. At an intersection outside the village, he met a young woman with a bag on her back, holding a child in one hand and an older boy in the other, who was running away in a hurry.
Huang Chao felt that this woman was heartless and wanted to cut her. I asked [8u58 Medicine Network www.8u58.com] to know that the eldest brother is the orphan of the eldest brother of the woman, and the child is born to the woman. She would rather let her children suffer than her nephew, in order to live up to her eldest brother's kindness.
Hearing this, Huang Chao was in awe of this young woman, thinking that she was one of the few adopted daughters in the world, so he cut off wormwood and calamus by the roadside with a sword, let her take it home and hang it on the door, and strictly ordered the soldiers: "If April hangs on the door during the March, it must be protected." The woman listened with a grain of salt, but when she returned to the city, she told her neighbors about it.
The next day is Dragon Boat Festival. Huang Chao army attacked Dengzhou, and saw wormwood and calamus hanging on the doors of every household. Huang Chao really kept his promise to the woman and led the troops away. The custom of hanging wormwood and calamus on the Dragon Boat Festival has been handed down.
When is it suitable to hang wormwood?
We know why we hang wormwood, and when we hang wormwood mainly depends on our mood. In general, wormwood is hung up a few days before the Dragon Boat Festival. When the Dragon Boat Festival arrived, the fresh wormwood in front of the door, coupled with the rich fragrance of zongzi, eggs and boiled garlic in every household, the whole family watched the dragon boat race happily. This is the taste of the Dragon Boat Festival. If you hang wormwood after the Dragon Boat Festival, the atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival has passed, so you think you missed the best time to hang wormwood.
How many pieces of wormwood are suitable?
When I was a child, some families would insert a wormwood in the gap between the two sides of the gate, and some families would put two bundles of wormwood on their doorpiers, which is roughly estimated to be hundreds. At present, the Dragon Boat Festival is coming, and the wormwood in the market sells well. People in this city can buy a lot of wormwood for one yuan. A rough estimate is about ten. To sum up, there are not many wormwood roots, ranging from two (at least one on each side of the door) to hundreds. After drying wormwood, you can take hundreds of leaves of wormwood and light them in a suitable place, which has a good mosquito repellent effect.
The difference between Artemisia argyi in Dragon Boat Festival and Artemisia argyi in Tomb-Sweeping Day.
1, different names
Although both Artemisia argyi and Artemisia argyi belong to Compositae, the scientific name of Artemisia argyi is Artemisia selengensis with obvious taproots and many lateral roots, while the scientific name of Artemisia argyi is generally Artemisia argyi, which is the dried leaf of Artemisia argyi in Compositae. Although their names are similar, there are still some differences.
2, the growth cycle is different.
Generally speaking, the growth cycle of wormwood is shorter than that of wormwood leaves, because wormwood will grow old once it leaves Tomb-Sweeping Day, and wormwood leaves can grow in Tomb-Sweeping Day from March to May, and generally live in fertile ridges or ponds.
3. Different heights
The biggest difference between wormwood and wormwood leaves is the difference in height and leaf mentality. The trunk of wormwood is slightly thick and long, the stem is light green, and the roots near the ground are slightly lignified, some of which can reach 1.5 cm in diameter and 80-250 cm in height, while the trunk of wormwood leaves is thin and the stem is dark red.
4. Different leaf shapes
The leaves of wormwood are usually thin, the front color is white, and there will be a layer of white fluff, which is soft and smooth, with small leaves and deep serrations around. The whole leaf is long and narrow, but the surface of Artemisia argyi leaves is five petals gray-green, and the back is white fluff, and the leaves look fat. The leaves are wider than wormwood, the serrations around the leaves are much smaller, and the back is densely covered with gray spider silk-like fluff.