What are the most commonly used patterns of wormwood and five poisons?

The five poisons are the most important theme of the Dragon Boat Festival. It mainly refers to five poisonous insects such as scorpions, centipedes, snakes, toads and lizards. During the Dragon Boat Festival, people have the custom of hanging a map of five poisons on the portal, or wearing ornaments of five poisons on children's arms and bodies, in order to avoid diseases and seek peace. Volume 3 of the Old Wulin Dragon Boat Festival records: "In the court of the Song Dynasty, there was a food plate, which meant dozens of hawthorn, five-colored silk and grass fog, with three floors, decorated with cinnabar, sunflower, pomegranate, wormwood, centipede, snake, scorpion and lizard, which was called' poisonous insect' ... also called Daikin. ..... and thought it was a big deal to be red-tongued and white-tongued. Another example is the symbol of five poisons in Jia Qinglu, an ancient land in Qing Dynasty: "Ni An cut five-color stationery, which looks like a toad, lizard, spider, snake and owl. It is called the symbol of five poisons. "The book also quoted the preface of Wu Manyun's" Jiang Xiangci ":"Hang the custom, draw the genus of snake and tiger on the fan in the afternoon, and the number must be five, which is used by children. "

In the Ming dynasty, the five poisons were also used as tonics. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, Liu Ruoyu's Proceedings (Volume 20), good diet, Dragon Boat Festival, and from the first day to the thirteenth day of May, the ministers in the Japanese palace all put on the clothes of ruling Ai Hu to make up for pythons. Acorus calamus and wormwood pots are installed on both sides of the door. There is a hanging screen on the door, which is painted with the story of Tianshi or Fairy holding a sword to reduce poison. For example, the door of the New Year Festival is very mysterious and will not be removed until January. "Its style is as follows: Ai Hu's five poison patterns in the Ming Dynasty were unearthed in Dingling, Beijing, and snake centipedes were embroidered on the chest. There is a crouching tiger embroidered in the middle of the back sticker. Tiger is embroidered with mugwort flowers and five kinds of poison patterns. Snakes, scorpions, lizards, toads and centipedes crawl or jump with different postures and vivid images. This women's jacket of Ai Hu Five Poisons Prescription should be a proper dress for honoring the queen.