Why do people draw a prince on their foreheads with realgar powder during the Dragon Boat Festival? What good wishes does he represent?

The custom of "drawing forehead" was handed down from Han people. Ancient Han people believed that on the special festival of Dragon Boat Festival, children's foreheads were coated with realgar wine to ward off some poisonous insects and evil things. The most typical traditional method of the custom of "drawing forehead" is to draw a "king" or a "tiger" on a child's forehead with realgar wine. This has two purposes, one is to use realgar to drive away drugs for children, and the other is to use "tiger" to avoid disasters for children.

Dragon Boat Festival uses "realgar wine" to exorcise evil spirits and seek good luck for children. It can be seen that "painting forehead" is a traditional custom of painting children's forehead with realgar during the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that it can ward off evil spirits for children.

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Other customs

1, fly a kite

A kite is an aircraft that sticks paper or silk to a bamboo frame and pulls a long line on it. It can be put into the sky under the action of wind, and it belongs to an aircraft that only uses aerodynamic force. In southern China, children flying kites during the Dragon Boat Festival is called "flying disaster". ?

Step 2 wash herbal water

Herbal water, that is, Mulan soup recorded in ancient books, can cure skin diseases and eliminate evil spirits by washing with herbal water at noon. Dragon Boat Festival is the day with the most Chinese herbal medicines in a year, and medicines are everywhere at noon.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, many places in China have the custom of collecting herbs, boiling herbs and soaking in water, and the medicinal properties of the Dragon Boat Festival herbs play a vital role in it. In Hunan, Guangxi and other places, cypress leaves, anemone roots, wormwood, calamus, peach leaves, etc. are boiled into liquid medicine for bathing, regardless of gender, age and family.