Dragon Boat Festival Culture: What about the flowers and plants during the Dragon Boat Festival?

During the Dragon Boat Festival, people have long been accustomed to hanging wormwood, calamus, wrapping jiaozi and eating zongzi in every household, but many people do not fully understand the indispensable flowers and plants in these customs. Then today's calendar will introduce you to the flowers and plants of the Dragon Boat Festival. Let's get to know the common plants of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Folium Artemisiae Argyi and Acorus calamus "insert willow in Qingming Festival and Folium Artemisiae Argyi in Dragon Boat Festival". Inserting Folium Artemisiae Argyi and hanging Acorus calamus is one of the important contents of Dragon Boat Festival. Whenever the Dragon Boat Festival comes, people will tie wormwood and calamus into a bundle and hang it on the lintel. "Holding the moxa banner to attract a hundred blessings, and hanging a sword on the door to kill a thousand evils" is the beautiful sustenance of the ancients for wormwood and calamus. Hanging wormwood and calamus at the entrance of the Dragon Boat Festival is like putting a spell on it, which can dispel evil and avoid harm.

Eliminating disasters is not a superstitious legend, but the ancients clearly recognized the characteristics of these plants. Artemisia argyi, also known as Folium Artemisiae Argyi and Artemisia argyi, is a compositae plant. Compendium of Materia Medica records "warming the middle warmer, dispelling cold and removing dampness". Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the functions of warming channels to stop bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain.

Chinese medicine uses Folium Artemisiae Argyi as medicine. Folium Artemisiae Argyi has the functions of regulating qi and blood, warming uterus and dispelling cold and dampness, and it is processed into "moxa wool", which is an important medicinal material for moxibustion treatment. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil, which can repel mosquitoes, flies and insects, and is also the most environmentally friendly "mosquito repellent incense".

Acorus calamus is an aquatic herb, and there are many in Shaanxi waters. The veins on both sides of Acorus calamus leaves protrude outward like swords, so it is also called "Pujiancao" or "Shuijiancao". Its sword-shaped leaves contain volatile aromatic oil, which has the functions of refreshing, killing insects and sterilizing. Pick a flag leaf of Acorus calamus and crush it with your fingers. The aroma rises from your fingers immediately. Therefore, Acorus calamus is included in the camp of vanilla. But this smell, mosquitoes are afraid of it.

In botany, people usually confuse calamus with cattail, but in fact they are not the same. Typha's spikes are like candles, which are called "hair candles" or "water candles". It was folded to dry, dipped in melted candle oil, and lit into a delicate little torch. The spicule of Acorus calamus is a narrow conical cylinder with a spatula. In addition, cattail and calamus have different leaves. Typha leaves are thicker and narrower than Acorus calamus, and the veins are convex or concave only on one side.

What are the fragrant leaves of zongzi? The leaves of Zongzi are not only fragrant, but also contain a lot of chlorophyll and a variety of amino acids beneficial to human body. At the same time, the leaves of Zongzi also have a special antiseptic effect, which is one of the reasons why people choose to use it to wrap Zongzi.

So what leaves are zongzi leaves made of? Because of different regions, people choose different plants, such as reed leaves, bamboo leaves and bamboo leaves, among which bamboo leaves and bamboo leaves are the main ones in the south and reed leaves are the main ones in the north.

It is particularly worth mentioning that people in Shangluo, Shaanxi often use oak leaves when making zongzi. Oak is a tall tree, which is distributed in many provinces of China, and most of them grow in hills and Shan Ye. The leaves of mistletoe are palm-sized and have wavy gaps on the edges. They are natural packaging materials. After boiling water to dry, you can wrap zongzi and other foods. Mistletoe leaves are also very popular in Japan and are called "food-grade packaging paper".

Bloom on Dragon Boat Festival —— Abelmoschus manihot is a colorful and easy-growing plant, which can be seen everywhere in rural areas of Shaanxi. Maybe you don't know it is the Dragon Boat Festival flower-hollyhock, but you must have seen it: one or two plants or a large cluster, growing in the courtyard and roadside, red, white and yellow flowers one after another, beautiful and simple. It won't surprise you, but it will be impressive.

The flowering season of the hollyhock is just before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, hence the name "Dragon Boat Festival Flower", while the scientific name "hollyhock" comes from its origin in Sichuan (Shu), China. Abelmoschus manihot is a tall herb with stout and upright stems and few branches, 2-3 meters high and pink, red, yellow and white flowers.

There are single flowers and double flowers in hollyhock, and the flowering period can last from the Dragon Boat Festival to the National Day. In some parts of our country, hollyhock is called "a red flower" and "rising day by day", which has a beautiful meaning of "happiness all your life, rising step by step".

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