What herbal tea do you drink on Dragon Boat Festival?

Why do you drink tea on the Dragon Boat Festival?

Tea is green and healthy. A cup of fragrant tea can represent care for family, blessing for friends and self-reflection. People in China pay attention to reciprocity, and the tea culture of tea ceremony has a long history.

In the traditional festivals of China people, tea is essential.

The custom of drinking tea on Dragon Boat Festival originated from drinking realgar wine. There is a saying in the folk songs around Hangshao that "drinking realgar wine will eliminate all diseases". According to the analysis of modern medicine, the main component of realgar is arsenic sulfide, which has the functions of antibacterial and expelling blood-sucking insects. However, this property is "hot", and it is inevitable that it will be hot after drinking realgar wine, which needs to be solved by drinking strong tea. Generally, families with a large population will always make a teapot with strong tea for their families to drink.

Drinking tea on the Dragon Boat Festival can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. During the Dragon Boat Festival, people go up the mountain to collect herbs, hang them at home for drinking all the year round, prevent diseases and keep fit, beauty beauty, prevent heatstroke and quench thirst, remove filth and exorcise evil spirits. In order to carry forward the national traditional health tea culture, the production technology was deeply studied and refined by combining traditional technology and modern processing technology, which not only maintained the traditional flavor, but also strengthened the health care function.

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a big custom. Zongzi is delicious, but it is not easy to digest. Especially now, there are more styles of meat dumplings, bean paste, egg yolk and other ingredients. Some zongzi, which are too greasy, high in fat and protein, may cause indigestion and flatulence, thus leading to an acute attack of the disease. At this time, many people will choose to drink a pot of tea and eat zongzi. At the same time, with the hot summer after the Dragon Boat Festival, germs breed, which is the high incidence season of influenza. Drinking tea often at this time can also help improve immunity and effectively resist germs and viruses.

What kind of tea is suitable for Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival is the season when you are hot and angry, and your mood is manic and restless. Drinking tea during the Dragon Boat Festival is very good for conditioning these symptoms.

chrysanthemum

It has the functions of dispelling wind, clearing away heat, clearing liver and improving eyesight, is a flower beneficial to human body, and also has the effect of losing weight; Together with Lycium barbarum, it has the functions of nourishing yin, clearing heat, tonifying kidney and improving eyesight.

rose

Can improve endocrine disorders, and then promote skin smooth and elastic. In addition, roses can also prevent constipation and slow down dysmenorrhea or irregular menstruation.

camomile

It smells delicious, has a calming effect, can help sleep, stabilize mood, moisturize skin, and can be used as a nutrient for hair.

peppermint leaf

It has sedative and digestive effects, and can also relieve migraine, stomach discomfort or throat discomfort. It is a good product to boost the spirit and stimulate vitality.

light purple

Can purify the mood, relieve tension and anxiety, relieve stress, relax nerves and help sleep. It can also treat the initial cold and cough and stabilize the digestive system. It is an ideal herbal tea for treating migraine.

Rosmarin

Medicinal tea, the best treatment for headache, can not only enhance memory, but also have a good effect on dysmenorrhea.

calendula

It has excellent curative effect on peptic ulcer and lymphadenitis, protects the digestive system, enhances liver function and relieves dysmenorrhea. Women are advised to drink more.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, the climate is more likely to make people irritable. You may wish to drink a cup of herbal tea while eating traditional zongzi. Herbal tea, taken from the roots, stems, leaves, flowers or skins of plants, is mostly made by air drying, which conforms to the modern concept of advocating nature and health, so it is loved by more and more people and gradually becomes a fashion. However, not all herbal teas are suitable for you, so if you want to find a suitable herbal tea, you must understand the efficacy of all kinds of herbal teas.