The implication of inserting wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival

The moral of inserting wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival:

The first is to avoid the nuisance caused by mosquitoes and flies. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called "May 5", and May is the starting point of the whole summer heat, and the "five poisons" become active. The fifth day of May is poison day. The ancients thought that this day was an important time node to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and wormwood was needed to prevent the nuisance of mosquitoes and flies.

Second, pray for health and good luck. Dragon Boat Festival is also a "health festival" handed down from ancient times. On this day, people sweep the courtyard, hang branches of Artemisia argyi, sprinkle realgar wine, stir up turbidity and remove rot. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival, hanging wormwood on the door, indicates that the family is in good health, all the best and good luck.

Third, it is to deter water monsters and look forward to a bumper harvest. The Dragon Boat Festival is full of gas and rain, and all parts of the country have entered the flood season, which has brought a lot of trouble to people's lives and work. The common people think that monsters are making waves and don't understand scientific knowledge. Everyone thinks that swords can deal with water monsters, and the leaves of wormwood are shaped like swords, so the ancients hung wormwood at home during the Dragon Boat Festival to deter water monsters and look forward to a bumper harvest.

Fourth, it is to go ominous and welcome good luck. In the folk, wormwood is inserted in the Dragon Boat Festival, and wormwood and calamus can also be tied into a bundle. Acorus calamus is added because its leaves look like a sword, so it also symbolizes removing ominous swords and bad luck and welcoming good luck and well-being among the people.

Dragon Boat Festival history:

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival and Tianzhong Festival. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival.

On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon spent seven nights in Nanzhong, which is the most "positive" position in the whole year, just like the fifth poem in the Book of Changes: "The flying dragon is in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival.