What's the difference between wormwood on Dragon Boat Festival and wormwood at ordinary times?

The wormwood of the Dragon Boat Festival, which we usually call wormwood, is a perennial herb of Compositae and Artemisia, or slightly semi-shrub-like, with strong fragrance. As a medicine, the whole herb has the functions of warming channels, promoting diuresis, dispelling cold, stopping bleeding, diminishing inflammation, relieving asthma, relieving cough, preventing miscarriage and resisting allergy.

It is believed that wormwood also has the function of exorcising evil spirits and attracting happiness. During the Dragon Boat Festival, hanging wormwood on the door has become a habit and a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.

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Ai culture has a long history. As early as in the Book of Songs, wormwood was already a very important livelihood plant.

Artemisia argyi is an ordinary plant and a common Chinese medicine, but it contains rich knowledge and connotation in the elements of China culture. People not only use it to pray for happiness and peace in life, but also use it to relieve their own diseases. At the same time, with the warmth of Ai, people can enjoy its taste happily.

It is said that wormwood has the function of expelling poison and evil spirits, and it was often used for divination in ancient times. Especially on the Dragon Boat Festival, every household hangs or inserts wormwood tied with red paper at the door to wish their families good luck and peace. Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, and noon is the most medicinal day for plants and trees in a year. The herbs collected on this day are the most effective in treating skin diseases and ward off evil spirits. At this time, people will collect wormwood and use it to ward off evil spirits.

In addition, people often put wormwood, calamus, realgar and sandalwood in small cloth bags to make sachets, tie them on their bodies with colored threads and hang them on them for health. People believe that wormwood also has the function of attracting hundreds of blessings. In some places, the "afternoon couplet" was posted on the Dragon Boat Festival, which once wrote: "Raise the Aiqi to attract a hundred blessings, and hang the sword door to kill a thousand evils." It is entrusted with people's good wishes of longing for a happy life and hating corrupt officials. ?

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