Significance of wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival

Significance of wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival: The legend that wormwood can drive away evil spirits has been circulated for a long time, because wormwood has the function of medicine and can also repel mosquitoes and sterilize. There is a custom of hanging wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival all over the north and south. In the south, it is regarded as a clean day for heaven and earth to drive away evil spirits and diseases, and in some places in the north, it is regarded as a bad day for the moon to avoid evil spirits and drugs.

Significance of wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is the first world-famous festival in China and one of the four traditional festivals in China.

Among all the traditional festivals in China, the name of Dragon Boat Festival is the most, reaching more than 20, including: Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Duanyang Festival, Ai Festival, May Festival, Acorus calamus Festival, Herbal Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zongzi Festival, Tibetan Noon Festival, Zongzi Festival and so on.

The two symbolic customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are picking dragon boats and eating zongzi. In addition, there are traditional customs such as hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boat water and tying five-color silk thread.