Changhong sachet to avoid poison malaria
- Yuan Fei empress and Jia Yun's Dragon Boat Festival ceremony

 
2017-03-26

Source: Chinese Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine

     Dragon Boat Festival, this ancient traditional festivals, spread from Qu Yuan's Chujiang, accompanied by red flow of pomegranate flowers, gongs and drums of the dragon boat, sweet and delicious dumplings, has continued to this day. In fact, this is still a mess with a touch of fragrance of Chinese medicine days.

     "Dream of Red Mansions", Jia House Dragon Dragon came a grand. Before the holiday, headed grandmother Wang Xifeng has begun to prepare for the ceremony, the poor family of children in the Jia Fu Yi Jia job, bought some borneol, musk as a ritual sent to her. Xifeng children a look, it is necessary to buy their own spices bait, then self received. A few days later, Yuan Fei from the palace given the ritual of everyone. Baoyu had the same palace fan, red musk beads, Feng Wei Luo, hibiscus bamboo mat, both evil spirits, but also the consumption of summer goods. Li Wan, Xi Feng two sisters in addition to leno, sachets, because there are children, it also gave the spindle medicine. Dragon Boat Festival day, Pu Ai hair door, tiger line arm. In the afternoon, Wang lady special treatment banquet, please Xue mother mother and others over the afternoon, everyone happy day.

     Liu Dong in the end of the Ming Dynasty, "Emperor Jingjing slightly" recorded: "May 1 to 5, ... ... stains to iris, door to Ai, Tu nose and nose to the realgar, to avoid insects." "In the afternoon when the fine record of rice root, mixed with realgar, exposed and sunburn, drink more than the application of children's cheek nose and nose, and swear bed between the books to avoid insects."

     "Ching Ming Liu Liu, Dragon Boat Festival Ai", the Dragon Boat Festival to, every family sweep the courtyard, the door of the plume hall hanging Ai Zhi, calamus. Or with calamus, leaves, pomegranate flowers made of various shapes of ornaments, beautiful fragrance, young children wearing insects to avoid malaria.

     Calamus is blindly refreshing God awakening, spleen retardation, insecticide sterilization of traditional Chinese medicine. Ai, also known as Artemisia arundin, aromatic peculiar, insect repellent insect insects, clean air. Into the pharmacological qi and blood, warm uterus, cured cold dampness, or moxibustion important material. Dragon Boat Festival is also from the ancient times, "Health Festival", before there are herbs customs, "Xia Xiaozheng" contains: "This day medicine, to Juan in addition to gas." Insert Ai and hanging calamus should also be in order to detoxification it. This day, people are also used to drink male rice wine, in the foot of the foot of the feet of male water, deworm disease prevention. Children wearing sachets to avoid evil drive plague, is said to be able to get rid of scorpions, snakes, centipedes, gecko, toad five poison.

     Jia Yun see the Phoenix sister children need to know the big family before the Dragon Boat Festival to buy spices medicine bait exorcism to avoid the plague, so send the ceremony was Xifeng heart. Borneol awakening, refreshing pain, anti-inflammatory itching; musk resuscitation, Huoxuetongluo, Sanjie analgesic, both for spices, but also into the pill. Dragon Boat Festival after the weather that is heat, when the epidemic is easy to live, snake worms out, right with a good spice, prepared pills.

     Yuan Fei Goddess of the ceremony is more should be due to the festival, the spindle medicine in the Qing Dynasty palace for the summer, alone in the Li Wan, Xi Feng two, mostly for children with heat and fire in addition to evil. Bao Chai shackle cage of red musk beads, girls wear sachets are fragrant evil spirits, should be the Dragon Boat Festival when the ornaments made.

     Sachet is a classical novel in the male and female protagonist of the traditional props, "Dream of Red Mansions" is often mentioned. Gem has used it in the summer installed Xiangxuejin Rundan, well memorial gold chu children from the time to find the usual sunny incense. Even the maidservants Xiren, but also with it filled with plum cake.

      Another Dragon Boat Festival and mortal, the aftertaste of the traditional taste of dumplings at the same time, but also do not forget the division of the division, Then, give yourself and your family to wear a sachet with herbal medicine, remove the smell, a touch of fragrance, but also refreshing, eliminate fatigue, so today's Dragon Boat Festival is still immersed in the ancient Chinese medicine fragrance.