Every year, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, May Festival, five-day festival, is a traditional Chinese holiday. In the spring and autumn before the Dragon Boat Festival is the festival to get rid of diseases and epidemics, after the patriotic poet Qu Yuan in this day of martyrdom and evolved into China’s Han Chinese people to pay tribute to Qu Yuan and remember the Chinese nation’s noble sentiments of the festival. Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, dragon boat racing, drinking Xionghuang wine, hanging mugwort calamus, hanging lotus bags and tethered five-color silk thread, has become a common behavior of the people. Dragon Boat Festival for the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar each year, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, May Festival, five day festival …… In the Spring and Autumn before the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to dispel diseases and epidemics, after the patriotic poet Qu Yuan in this day of martyrdom and evolved into a people’s tribute to Qu Yuan as well as the memory of the Chinese nation’s noble sentiments of the festival, along to this day, Qu Yuan’s name has been known for hundreds of years, patriotic spirit also spread to all parts of China. But there are exceptions, the Dragon Boat Festival in the East Wu area traditionally does not commemorate Qu Yuan, but to commemorate the fifth of May was thrown into the river Wu Zixu, and Wu Yue area to dragon boat racing and in this day held the custom of tribal totem sacrifice is very long before the Spring and Autumn. Dragon Boat Festival has eat zongzi, dragon boat race, hanging calamus, artemisia, mugwort, smoked atractylodes, dahurica, drinking Xiong Huang wine custom. “Dragon Boat Festival” as one of the national holidays, and was included in the world’s intangible cultural heritage list. Dragon Boat Festival health common sense Dragon Boat Festival is the time of the year to the Yang Qi, the weather is more boring, if the work pressure, the human physiological blood does not run smoothly, easy to irritable depression, palpitations and chest tightness. Emotional changes can affect the function of the internal organs and can lead to mental disorders, such as happiness and sadness, anger hurts the liver and spleen. At this time, it is advisable to make the spleen, stomach, heart and lungs of the qi to adjust smoothly. In order to spend the summer, folk in the Dragon Boat Festival this day, in addition to the collection of some herbs hanging, wearing, purification, taking, but also choose to eat some food with high medicinal value, in order to avoid poison to dispel evil, disease prevention and fitness. Eating mugwort cake mugwort has a special fragrance, is a common Chinese herbal medicine. The earliest medical book in China, “52 Disease Formula”, recorded that mugwort is bitter and pungent, warm in nature, and belongs to the liver, spleen and kidney meridians, and has the function of clearing heat and detoxifying, removing dampness and relieving itching. There is still a proverb that “if you have mugwort for three years, the doctor will not use it”. Fresh mugwort leaves made of mugwort cake is very good for dispelling heat, strengthening the spleen and relieving dampness. The air is humid at the Dragon Boat Festival, and the aroma of mugwort leaves is fresh, which can remove poisonous gas, remove dirt, and purify the air. There is a folk custom of “hanging mugwort, wearing mugwort tiger, drinking mugwort wine, eating mugwort cake and smoking mugwort leaves”. Wearing incense pouches Children mostly wear incense pouches on their chests, while adults are mostly tied around the waist. Traditional incense sacs commonly used formula is: Atractylodes, Chuanxiong, Angelica dahurica, calamus, naphthalene, sweet pine, lingzhi, ice chips, etc.. Modern scientific research has proved that the volatile components of Chinese medicine such as Atractylodes can effectively kill pathogenic microorganisms suspended in the air, and the aromatic odor emitted by the drugs in the balm can stimulate the nasal mucosa and increase the content of antibodies on the nasal mucosa – secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA), which has a strong ability to kill viruses The content of SIgA on the nasal mucosa of children is low, so it is most suitable for wearing. Influenza, diphtheria, chickenpox and other infectious diseases have a certain preventive effect. Hanging pendulum calamus calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, its narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil, is a refreshing, bone stagnant, insecticidal sterilization drugs. It can be seen, the ancients inserted moxa and calamus has a certain role in disease prevention. Eat zongzi From the perspective of health care, zongzi is also a kind of medicinal food. In Chinese medicine, the reed leaves and lotus leaves wrapped in zongzi are good medicine to clear the heat, and glutinous rice also has the medicinal effect of benefiting the qi and clearing heat. After the Dragon Boat Festival, it enters the hottest months of summer. Due to the bitter summer is difficult to endure, people will generally have fire, heat stroke phenomenon occurs, and at this time often eat zongzi, is indeed a good “medicine” of medicine and food to relieve the heat. The possibility of being hurt by insects and snakes in summer is high, so drink Xiong Huang wine to avoid poisonous snake damage. Eat salted duck eggs Eat salted duck eggs for the Dragon Boat Festival another food custom. Salted duck eggs are salty and slightly cold, which can nourish yin and clear the lungs, and can cure summer diaphragm heat, cough, sore throat, toothache, leaking and other diseases. Cooked garlic Garlic is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, which tastes pungent and sweet, can kill and sterilize, and cooked food can clear toxins in the intestines and stomach and unblock blood vessels. On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, it is customary to cook fresh garlic in most parts of the country to unblock the blood vessels and disinfect and sterilize the body.