Why take a bath on the Dragon Boat Festival (why take a bath at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival)

1, bathing in the Dragon Boat Festival is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. This c

Why take a bath on the Dragon Boat Festival (why take a bath at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival)

1, bathing in the Dragon Boat Festival is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. This custom still exists and is widely popular. It is said that it can cure skin diseases and ward off evil spirits. Dragon Boat Festival is the day with the most Chinese herbal medicines in a year, and medicines are everywhere at noon. During the Dragon Boat Festival, many places in our country have the custom of collecting herbs, boiling herbs and bathing in water, and the medicinal properties of Dragon Boat Festival herbs play a vital role in it.

2. Bathing in the afternoon (bathing orchid soup) was first recorded in the book "Wearing Li Ji" written by Dade, a ritualist at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, but the orchids here are not orchids, but flying grasses or compositae herbs, which are fragrant and can be cooked and bathed. There is also a saying in "Nine Songs in the Cloud" that "bathing in 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".