What are the five poisons of Dragon Boat Festival? In traditional folk customs, what customs are derived from eliminating the five poisons?

The five poisons of Dragon Boat Festival refer to snakes, scorpions, centipedes, geckos and toads. In fact, these five poisons refer to the five poisons of the Dragon Boat Festival. In traditional folk customs, mugwort leaves are actually woven into the shape of tigers, and five-color silk threads are sewn on the wrists and necks. In fact, it is the custom of eliminating the five poisons during the Dragon Boat Festival.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, there were actually many traditional cultural customs, but in ancient China, May every year was actually regarded as a poisonous day. In fact, this is because the weather is changing gradually at this time, so the rain will gradually increase, and people will easily get sick because of changing seasons at this time. Because the weather is humid and the temperature rises slowly, many insects in nature gradually come out to move.

Therefore, people set the fifth day of May as the day when urban areas are infected with plague virus, so the five poisons actually refer to five kinds of animals, namely snakes, scorpions, centipedes, geckos and toads that we can see in our daily life.

In ancient times, there were actually many traditional customs. For example, during the Dragon Boat Festival, pictures of these animals will be hung at home, and some people will hang mugwort leaves on their doors, so that the plague virus can be removed. In addition, there will be a portrait of Zhong Kui in the main room. Because people think that Zhong Kui actually has the magic power to exorcise ghosts, it is said that he will hang it indoors to exorcise ghosts.