What does it mean to hang mugwort leaves before the Dragon Boat Festival?

Hanging mugwort leaves before the Dragon Boat Festival means that you can keep your family safe and healthy, and have a good year.

Hanging mugwort leaves is also to ward off evil spirits and prevent mosquitoes. On the Dragon Boat Festival, inserting wormwood and calamus is one of the important customs, which has the meaning of expelling insects, and can also play the role of dispelling plague and evil spirits and attracting blessings into the door.

"Artemisia argyi", also known as Folium Artemisiae Argyi and Artemisia argyi, contains volatile aromatic oil in its stems and leaves, which will produce peculiar fragrance. Story of Jingchu at the age of four: "mourn for people, hang them on the door and use poison 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.

Every Dragon Boat Festival, people will hang wormwood at home to exorcise evil spirits and pray. "The Story of Jingchu Times": "Mourning is a person, and it is poisonous gas hanging on the door." This is because mugwort is an important medicinal plant, and it can also be used for treating diseases, moxibustion at acupoints and expelling insects. Folium Artemisiae Argyi contains the most oil in May (it is in the vigorous period of warm growth at this time), so the effect is the best, and people are scrambling to pick folium Artemisiae Argyi. Several mugwort plants are often hung at home. Because of its special fragrance, people use it to ward off evil spirits and prevent mosquitoes.

Dragon boat festival custom

Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival that integrates offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The customs mainly include dragon boat rowing, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, washing herbal water, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, soaking in dragon boat water, eating dragon boat rice, eating zongzi, putting paper dragons, putting paper kites, tying colorful silk threads and wearing sachets. As one of the four traditional festivals in China, it not only clearly records the colorful social life and cultural content of our ancestors, but also accumulates profound historical and cultural connotations.

Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon rises to the center of the south for seven nights, just as I ching said, "the flying dragon is in the sky". The ancients held some festive activities, especially dragon-related activities, such as dragon boat racing, to worship the dragon ancestors on the auspicious day of "Flying Dragons to Heaven", or to do some activities to pray for good luck and ward off evil spirits. Dragon Boat Festival is a "dragon festival", and dragon and dragon boat culture run through the historical inheritance of Dragon Boat Festival.