What is the moral of sticking mugwort on the Dragon Boat Festival

The moral of hanging mugwort on the Dragon Boat Festival is to pray for good luck.

Plugging wormwood is a traditional festival custom, the Dragon Boat Festival is also a health festival since ancient times, people in this day sprinkle clean the courtyard, hang the wormwood, hanging calamus, sprinkle xionghuang water, drink xionghuang wine. Every year at the time of the Dragon Boat Festival, you will often see families hanging some mugwort on their front door or window, in fact, the Dragon Boat Festival hanging mugwort is to hope that everything goes well.

"Ai" is also known as home wormwood, Artemisia absinthium, its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils will produce a strange aroma, the folk proverb says: "Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival plug Ai". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put the moxa and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, with calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. And with calamus, moxa, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flower, made in the shape of a man or a tiger, known as Ai man, Ai tiger; made of wreaths, ornaments, beautiful and fragrant, women compete to wear.

Mugwort selection skills:

1, not fresh mugwort do not

Duanwu Festival hanging mugwort, pay attention to fresh, ancient times every time to the Dragon Boat Festival everyone is early in the morning to go to the ground to harvest the mugwort, in the sun did not rise before the harvest of mugwort home. Because of the freshly harvested mugwort, the flavor is the most intense, the fragrance can last a long time, the effect is also more lasting some.

2, incomplete wormwood do not

Mugwort harvesting must be complete, can not be missing branches and leaves. Because the ancient people are all about integrity, and, a whole plant of mugwort hanging up beautiful, beautiful, and the role of time will be longer. At the same time, the complete wormwood symbolizes the fullness of the circle, more popular with the people. On the contrary, if it is missing branches and leaves, it will always give people a feeling of something missing.