The Dragon Boat Festival of TCM culture in

- YangFeng henan nanyang first people's hospital

For more than two thousand years, the Dragon Boat Festival has a long history in China is always a universal collection herbs, avoid blast abolish poison and petition longevity and health folk big festival. Inheriting Dragon Boat Festival positive health folk culture tradition, it makes the old national fitness festival with its rich cultural connotation into the modern life.

Pick 100 grass expel toxin factor

The Dragon Boat Festival gathering herbs, is the oldest one of the festival and customs. "XiaXiaoZheng" load: "the day JuanChu regenerative medicine to poison." The record "roll at the age of 22" wide in miscellaneous medicine "lead at the age of jingchu liancheng:" record "in May 5th, rc, miscellaneous medicine elixir." Popular favour is ay tsao, Pope deloitte was alarmed by the age in jingchu written record on: "chicken not sound, like those in ai, LAN and figure, the take in what sticks disease, Japanese inspection. In ai humanoid, suspended for the Rang poison gas, household." People will adopt to send out more aromatic ay tsao, insert in window and door, women also insert in Bob elliott, will also be tiger form, hamid YiHu ", be called "common mind a can" recruit 100 f, flooding the god evil "hundreds of grass. Meanwhile, people put wormwood, banyan, calamus with red paper into "PuLong" and binding the pu leaves, like sword hung door. The age of JiSheng: empire "(dragon-boat festival) PuLong YiHu inserted." The qing jia recorded "volume 5:" DaiPu for sword, cut peng as deputy whip with peach infarction, garlic, hangs on the bed all in the door, but the demons." Taiwan folk circulates stuck "noon when dragon-boat festival custom," the united YiQi recruit 100 blessing hand-held PuJian beheaded, door and suspension thousands." Think moxa can eliminate woe, bring happiness to eliminate pathogenic auspicious. Elliott, enjoy "TCM's" the laudatory name, grass has spread cold dehumidification, by the temperature hemostatic, analgesic away, and are itchy effect, uterine hematemesis and actions, and blood were dysentery, like eczema scab skin commonly used medicine of various diseases.

Wash dipping prevention and cure of diseases

Folk have dragon-boat festival custom of dipping, wash. The great DaiLi han "account:" sixth date to LanShang bath ". Qu yuan, the "nine songs in" the prince "bath LanShang will wash the sentence fang". At the age of jingchu written, "said:" May 5, is known as the bath. "Abram festival MuLan soup with compositae employed, a sweet dehumidification medicine, Fried water bath, be helpful for prevent skin diseases. Now the folk multi-purpose fresh-cut moxa, calamus etc after soaking or decoction can bathe, prevention and treatment of FeiZi, delighting sores. In guangdong, people multi-purpose wormwood, pu, impatiens, magnolia etc make soup bath; flowers and plants Hunan, guangxi, then use these winds roots, leaves, moxa, calamus peach leaf etc boil potions bath, can go to the evil poison, cure skin diseases.

Drink wine abolish poison to ward off evil spirits

The Dragon Boat Festival, both old and drink wine fashionable. Said, is ages ago, ancient age as jingchu said: "ji of acorus or with cold crumbs, ornamental or wine." The five 淛 zhao Ming thanks "miscellaneous tsui drink calamus wine also... and to drink XiongHuang into wine." Should Beijing in the Ming feng generalized "in conducting, said:" 5, with vermilion wine with wine, detoxify to ward off evil spirits forehead chest heart, no will limbs with cobra. And to sprinkle wall Windows, to avoid the vermin." Said fashion is extremely heavy care, fear or by battling, will therefore dragon-boat festival day drink wine as a fashion, in order to not evil didn't difficult. "Drink realgar wine, are far" minyan diseasess, is in most regions of China people ready to drink realgar wine portraiture. Northern district people drink realgar wine, also sprinkle realgar wine, in houses in children inside the ears, nose and daub on TouE XiongHuang, to avoid the vermin. Some still use realgar wine on the forehead in child "king" word picture with tiger, WangWeiFeng mark to exorcise evil spirits, protect children peace. Southern guangxi binyang etc, and people will buy BaiZi XiongHuang, Spanish red, cinnabar, nut, pu slice, such as liquor moxa, dragon-boat festival day into YiPeng dip in with calamus sprinkled wall corner, doors and Windows, bed, used in indoor disinfection inferior place.

Flooding ShiYi WuDu prevention

In may, after the summer of poisonous, epidemics haunted woody and cannot resist natural disasters, and says the ancestors of evil (for "may wu) month", inhabited by a hateful meaning. So in folk circulates have "Dragon Boat Festival, the hot weather, not WuDu awake; rest," saying. People in order to ward off evil spirits hasten lucky, prevent disease, will ChengXiong serpent, centipede, scorpions, toads, gecko "WuDu" paper-cut images, posted on the door and the walls of the room; In red paper to draw of five poisons, reoccupy five needle in WuDu above all; The image of the WuDu plenty of arm in children; Folk and WuDu trend in clothing on WuDu in bread, compose on such as design of customs, to avoid the poison. The qing dynasty, fashionable "pour disaster gourd" customs, is the WuDu shapes of gourds hangs stuck in WuDu, indicating door-post breath of relief will be completely.

Although this except "the way WuDu" with ancient to ward off evil spirits YiSu witchcraft, but reflects the good will of the ancients prevention batin. Along with the progress of the society, except WuDu "method" is to keep pace with The Times. From protecting the ecological environment of the ancients says perspective, WuDu "is maintaining nature" ecological balance indispensable. So, should will WuDu to fly, mice, mosquitoes, bugs, cockroaches, to regular vigorously developing the patriotic health campaign, destroy these new WuDu, be helpful for preventing various infectious disease.

Pelosi QueBing strengthen sachets

Sachet, and a sweet bursa, sweet package, name, our country folk pouch etc sachets custom pelosi the Dragon Boat Festival is very ancient relics unearthed han, miu have sachets. Chen and the age of the pretty wide the age record "lead" mentioned a "miscellanea DuanWu BaiCaiZao with red like" capsule, consistently with colored thread, Chu make sachets which form ", still have a kind of "clam powder bell" sachets: "on the 5th to clam powder, compose with in silks, if ShuZhu. Make continous children take with absorb sweat". Clear the age of JiSheng: empire records: "chains, with soft opening fold blessing, LaoJian coin silks JiaoShu seam, garlic, WuDu, tiger equation." The qing jia record "in a beautifully written:" city health person with gold and silver silk for numerous compose, the shape, riding the bell in tiger, very fine, compose message for strings, or useful for those gold copper wire, plug and prepare for the woman to each other and Lai named health offer." Today, the shape of the colorful imbuing sachets, wearing a choice, because people and hobbies such as young children with their more than 30 pelosi sachets of animal; Girls like butterflies, and flowers pattern sachets; Old people are peja cranes, peach, plum flower, chrysanthemum, etc shape sachets; Some chronic patients would like embroidered with doors, the duke guan sachets hanging in his chest. Various color sachets all repose the people look forward to good luck, good health and longevity of QueBing to ward off evil spirits, and good hope for.