What festival is realgar wine to drink?

Drink realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival.

According to legend, when Xu Xian and Bai Niangzi spent the Dragon Boat Festival together, Xu Xian put some realgar wine in the wine and turned it into realgar wine, which caused the snake to show its original shape immediately after Bai Niangzi drank it, scaring Xu Xian half to death. So realgar wine has the function of avoiding snakes.

Dragon Boat Festival is here. As the weather starts to get warmer, all kinds of pests will come out. Drinking realgar wine can avoid the five poisons. This traditional custom has also been passed down to this day. On Dragon Boat Festival, everyone will have the custom of drinking realgar wine.

Realgar wine is made by grinding realgar into powder and mixing it with liquor. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the word "Wang" is written on the child's head with realgar wine, and poisonous snake pests dare not hurt the child. There is also a saying that it is to ward off evil spirits and prevent epidemic. After the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is hot and easy to breed pests and diseases, so people spray realgar wine in the corner to repel insects.

Traditional folk custom

Dragon Boat Festival is a very popular folk festival in China. This is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation since ancient times. Due to the vast territory and numerous stories and legends, not only many different festival names have been produced, but also different customs have been observed in different places.

The Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer is an auspicious day for Feilong. Dragon Boat Festival in the form of dragon boat race is an important theme of Dragon Boat Festival, which is still popular in the southern coastal areas of China. In addition, a series of Dragon Boat Festival customs are derived from numbers of yin and yang and seasons. According to the number of yin and yang, noon is yang, and heavy noon is the most yang.

The ancients regarded three o'clock in the afternoon and three o'clock in the afternoon as the most important time to eliminate evil spirits. The ancients also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as an auspicious year, which coincided with the summer solstice, and called it "Dragon Boat Festival", which is said to be "once in a blue moon".