What does Dragon Boat Festival Mulan Decoction mean? Introduction to the Significance of Mulan Decoction for Dragon Boat Festival

1, Mulan decoction, is a health-keeping custom of the Dragon Boat Festival of the Han nationality. First of all, a woman dressed in Hanfu carried a basin of mugwort water, and people lined up in turn to see the priest. The priest dipped calamus grass in the water in the basin and gently wiped the hands, foreheads and necks of the participants to show bad luck.

2. Bathing orchid soup in Dragon Boat Festival is an ancient custom recorded in Da Dai Li. At that time, orchids were not orchids today, but flying grasses of Compositae, which were fragrant and could be decocted and bathed. "Nine Songs in the Cloud" also has the sentence "Bathing orchid soup will make you fragrant". "The Chronicle of Jingchu": "May 5th is called the Blue Bath Festival." "Five Miscellanies" records that people in the Ming Dynasty took a bath with five-colored grass at noon because "there was no orchid soup". Later, herbs such as cattail and wormwood were usually fried for bathing. In Guangdong, use wormwood, cattail, impatiens, magnolia and other flowers and plants; In Hunan, Guangxi and other places, cypress leaves, anemone roots, wormwood, cattail and peach leaves are used for bathing. Regardless of men, women and children, the whole family washes. This custom still exists today. It is said that it can cure skin diseases and ward off evil spirits.