What festival is realgar wine to drink?

Drink realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival.

Drinking realgar wine is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. In ancient times, when there were no disinfectants such as iodine, soaking realgar in wine could detoxify and relieve itching. For children under drinking age, adults apply realgar wine to forehead, ears, ears, hands, feet, heart and other parts to disinfect and prevent diseases. The custom of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival was very popular in the ancient Yangtze River basin.

During and after the Dragon Boat Festival, the climate is hot, mosquitoes and flies fly, poisonous gas rises, and epidemics germinate. The ancients believed that people who ate whole grains suffered from various diseases, and the diseases entered through the mouth, mostly due to evil and miscellaneous gas, which was inhaled through the nose and mouth. Wang Zengqi mentioned realgar wine in Duck Eggs at Dragon Boat Festival, which said, "Drink realgar wine. Draw a king on the child's forehead with wine and realgar, which is found in many places. "

Matters needing attention

People usually grind realgar into powder and pour it into white wine or yellow wine for a little soaking. In fact, drinking realgar wine can not only achieve the purpose of exorcism and detoxification, but will be poisoned. According to experts in traditional Chinese medicine, realgar, also known as Celosia cristata, is warm in nature, bitter and pungent in taste and toxic, and is mainly used for detoxification and insecticidal purposes.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Realgar Wine