Why do you drink realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival?

1. Realgar was originally taken by Taoist alchemists. It is pure yang, which can dispel yin and evil. Later, it was incorporated into the Dragon Boat Festival folk custom to drive away damp insects and snakes.

2. The Dragon Boat Festival absorbed the belief of the ups and downs of Yin and Yang in the summer solstice festival during its formation. In the folk, summer solstice is regarded as an important day of agricultural production, which is used to guide the planting of crops. At the official level, due to the influence of Yin-Yang theory and its beliefs, the summer solstice sacrifice is quite grand.

3. In May of the lunar calendar, the climate is hot and humid, various plagues and diseases are easy to breed, and the activities of snakes, insects and other pests are becoming more and more frequent. Therefore, the people have always regarded May as an "evil month" and a "poisonous month". Because there is a special taboo in May, and the time span of May is relatively long, Xia people regard the fifth day of May as the evil day of evil month, and hold a series of activities such as collecting medicine, storing orchids and bathing to ward off evil spirits on this day. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the folk May 5th Movement also became a national memorial ceremony, which was actually the official recognition and acceptance of the May 5th Movement belief. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, some official sacrificial activities have moved the original summer solstice solar term to May 5, which has added many new folk activities to this folk festival.