What kind of wine to drink on Dragon Boat Festival?

Duanwu Festival drink Xionghuang wine.

Duanwu Festival drink Xionghuang wine from the ancient time has been inherited the custom. As the old saying goes, "If you drink Xionghuang wine, all the diseases will be far away". Xionghuang is a mineral, commonly known as the "cockle stone", the general drinking of xionghuang wine, only in white wine or home-brewed yellow wine to add trace amounts of xionghuang, is not pure drinking.

Andrographis is a mineral, containing arsenic trisulfide components, mixed with wine. That is, into the andrographis wine, used to drive away insects to solve the five poisons, children coated in the head and forehead. Ear, nose, hands and feet heart. And sprinkled walls ask, in order to law of all poisons. The story of "The Legend of the White Snake" has been circulating in the folklore, that is, to solve the poison of snakes and vipers with androgynous wine, and the original shape of the white snake. This kind of practice is very popular among people in the Yangtze River basin area.

Duanwu Festival customs:

1, eat zongzi

Zongzi as sacrificial offerings, as early as the Spring and Autumn period has appeared, but zongzi was formally designated as a Dragon Boat Festival food, is in the Jin Dynasty, the period, package zongzi raw materials, in addition to glutinous rice, but also added the Chinese medicine Yizhi Ren, cooked zongzi called "Yizhi zongzi".

2, tethered five-color thread

Traditional Chinese culture, a symbol of the five sides of the five elements of the five colors "green, red, white, black, yellow" is regarded as an auspicious color. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, children tie five-colored threads around their wrists and ankles to protect their well-being.