Where can I pick mugwort in Beijing?

This should be sold on the street. If you need to pick, you can go to a small town in the south of Beijing.

Ai (scientific name: Artemisia argyi? Rafer. Et Van), a perennial herb of Artemisia in Compositae, has a strong fragrance. The taproot is obvious, slightly thicker and longer, with a diameter of 1.5 cm and many lateral roots. Stems solitary or few, 80- 150(-250) cm tall. The leaves are thick and papery, with grayish white pubescence and white glandular spots and small pits. The head is oval, 2.5-3.5 mm in diameter, sessile or subsessile. Achenes oblong or oblong. The flowering and fruiting period is July -65438+ 10.

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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. According to the records of local customs in the Jin Dynasty, during the Dragon Boat Festival, people tied wormwood into a human shape, or woven it into a tiger shape, or cut it into a tiger shape with colored cloth, hung wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival, and then pasted it with wormwood, so the woven or cut object was called "Ai Hu".

On the Dragon Boat Festival, women begin to pin "Ai Hu" on their hair, while men wear "Ai Hu" on their chests or waists. On this day, people also make the picked mugwort leaves and glutinous rice into "mugwort zanba", which means that it can be "safe and healthy" after eating. Zong Zhuo, a scholar in the Southern Dynasties, recorded in the Chronicle of Jingchu: "On the fifth day of May, when the chicken was not crowing, it was very effective to collect it by moxibustion. It is the day when Ai Cai becomes a human and hangs on the door to fight against poison gas. "

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