Xionghuang wine what holiday to drink?

Xionghuang wine Dragon Boat Festival drink.

Drinking Xionghuang wine is one of the customs of the Han Chinese folk festival Dragon Boat Festival, in the absence of iodine and other disinfectants of the ancient times, the use of Xionghuang wine, you can get rid of poisonous itch. Not to drink the age of small children, adults will give their forehead, ears and nose, hands and feet heart and other places coated with xionghuang wine, intended to disinfect and prevent disease, insects and insects do not bite. Duanwu drink xionghuang wine custom, ancient times in the Yangtze River Basin region is extremely prevalent.

Duanwu Festival and after the festival, the climate is hot, flies and insects fly, poisonous gas rise, disease sprouting. Ancient people believe that people are eating grains and cereals to produce all kinds of diseases, and the disease enters by the mouth, mostly for the evil gas, inhaled through the mouth and nose. In Wang Zengqi's "Duck Eggs at Dragon Boat Festival" mentioned Xionghuang wine, which said: "Drink Xionghuang wine. Draw a Wang character on the child's forehead with the wine and the xionghuang, which is found in many places."

Precautions

People usually drink Xionghuang after grinding it into powdered form and pouring it into white wine or yellow wine with a slight infusion. In fact, drinking Xionghuang wine not only fails to achieve the purpose of driving away evil spirits and detoxification, but will be poisoned. According to Chinese medicine experts: Xionghuang, also known as chicken stone, warm, bitter taste, poisonous, mainly used as detoxification, insecticide.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Xionghuang wine