“May 5th noon, the Heavenly Master rode the Ai tiger. Pu sword cut a hundred evil, ghosts into the mouth of the tiger.” This is an ancient folk song of the Dragon Boat Festival health care customs. Dragon Boat Festival is the most valued since ancient times to the present day China’s folk traditional festival, especially the country to the Dragon Boat Festival as a holiday, but also to illustrate the status of this festival in the hearts of the country. Every year, in addition to dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and other major festivals around the world, there are many Chinese medicine related, worthy of praise and learn from the epidemic prevention and health care practices. Mugwort is collected and placed on the door and in the hall, which is said to ward off evil spirits and drive away the plague. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, mugwort grows vigorously, as the old poem goes: “The grass is shriveled at the time of Duan Yang, and the wild mugwort is lightly dressed. No intention to compete with the face to present a beautiful attitude, the fame of the people know.” Dragon Boat Festival insert mugwort has a long history, the southern dynasty Liang Zong service “Jingchu years and times record” contains: “May 5 pick mugwort …… hanging portal, to avoid poisonous gas.” Meng Yuanlao in the “Tokyo Meng Hua Lu” also said: “and nail the mugwort in the door, the common people handed each other to feast.” The so-called “mugwort man” is to tie the mugwort into a human shape. Some also cut mugwort into the shape of a tiger, called “mugwort tiger”. Southern Song Dynasty Fujian lyricist Liu Kezhuang in the “He Xinlang” words depicted: “children have boasted locks, new hairpin charm moxa tiger.” As for why the Dragon Boat Festival insert mugwort, it is said that during this period the mugwort has the most fragrant oil and the strongest ability to kill poison. People put mugwort and two other Chinese herbal medicine atractylodes, Angelica dahurica together simmering fumigation, will emit a strange fragrance, can play the effect of mosquitoes, maggots and flea repellent. Ancient medical practitioners said, “Apricot is the flower of Chinese medicine, and mugwort is the herb of Chinese medicine.” According to legend, the Tang dynasty medicine sage Sun Simiao commonly used moxibustion foot three points, and later even live longer than 100 years. Hanging calamus Dragon Boat Festival, households used to use calamus as a sword inserted in the lintel, said to have the effect of driving away demons and ghosts, but also legendary food calamus can become immortal, can live forever. Han Wu Di wanted to seek immortality, had eaten calamus for two years. According to the “Compendium of Materia Medica” contains, calamus is the prosperity of the cattail, so the name. Also because of its leaves like a sword, it is also known as “sword water grass”. Calamus rhizome can be used as a spice, refreshing, enlightenment, sterilization function, the Dragon Boat hanging calamus commonly believed to ward off evil. Qing Fucha Guo Chong “Yanjing years” in the record: “Dragon Boat Day, with calamus root carved into the ‘little man’, ‘zucchini’ and other ornaments hanging around the neck of children to ward off evil, but also with calamus root bubble wine, thought to drink it can prolong life. Calamus although no peony beauty, and no lotus elegance, but deeply loved by people, the ancients will often orchids, chrysanthemums, narcissus, calamus known as the “four elegant flowers and plants. Picking hundred grasses According to legend, in ancient times, there is Shen Nong’s taste hundred grasses and found that the herbs, and later Dragon Boat Festival picking medicine will become a customary activity. Han stunned “years Hua Ji Li” contained: “Duanwu, hut storage medicine, fighting hundred herbs.” According to the record, this custom began in the Xia Dynasty, “Dai Liji – Xia Xiaozheng”: “this month (May) storage of medicine, to remit the poisonous gas.” The southern dynasty Liang Zong service “Jingchu years and times record” contains: “is the day (Dragon Boat Festival) competition, picking miscellaneous medicine.” The South Zong Wu Zimu “Meng Liang Record” record: “this day to pick a hundred herbs or repair medicine, thought to ward off plague and other uses, the collection of the fruit has a spiritual experience.” To this day, Minnan and Taiwan and other places folk still retain this ancient legacy. The people believe that the early summer, herbs flourish, easy to identify the collection, the herbs collected on this day is also particularly good healing. Zhuang region in China, people have to go to the mountains to collect medicine, and then boil the medicinal water bath, this kind of medicinal bath is beneficial to the health of human skin. Wear incense pouches Dragon Boat Festival day, children with multicolored threads tied incense pouches hanging on the chest, to show that the evil habits to drive away peace. The shape of the incense bag or a rectangle, paper bag outside the printed Zhong Kui, Guan Gong and other gods or to wrap cloth sewn into peaches, gold locks, monkeys, frogs, etc., the incense bag is equipped with vermilion, Xiong Huang, spices and drugs, small and exquisite, fragrant, not only “to ward off evil and drive away the plague” meaning, but also have the head embellished with the wind. Jiangnan folk with red cloth made of chicken heart bag, containing tea, rice, andrographis powder for children to hang chest, said “chicken heart” and “memory” harmonics, grow up reading memory will be good. The emperor’s capital years and seasons “also recorded in the Qing dynasty Beijing Duanwu Pe incense bag festival custom:” with soft silk seizure sewing old healthy people, horned millet, garlic, five poisons, tigers and other styles …… children to wear the appropriate summer to avoid evil.” Wearing this drug incense packets have their own wonderful reason, because the weather is getting hot, disease and bacteria sprouting, wear an incense packet can kill the germs, cool the spirit. Tea Dragon Boat Festival bubble drinking tea is Taiwan, Fujian and Guangdong folk prevalent health care festival custom. Afternoon tea is a strong local flavor of health care medicine tea, people used to drink at noon on the Dragon Boat Day bubble, so the name. From the beginning of the discovery of tea by Shennong, it is revealed that tea can cure the role of tea is known to have preventive and curative effects on a variety of diseases. There are records of the noon tea in a large number of herbal preparations is tea. Southerners are also accustomed to bubble drinking unique “pomelo tea” (also customarily called “noon tea”), this with pomelo tea weighs about several pounds, each grain pressed and squeezed into about 125 grams of tea, and then hung with thread sewn in the ventilation, let it dry naturally. To be the following year Dragon Boat Festival, grapefruit juice has long been absorbed by the tea, take grapefruit tea brewing is suitable for stomach diseases, indigestion, chronic cough, phlegm asthma and other diseases. Xiong Huang wine This is the essential Dragon Boat Festival “main event”, “Dream of the Red Chamber” also described: “Dragon Boat Festival, Jia House up and down the Pu Ai hairpin door, arm tiger talisman, drink Xiong Huang wine, eat zongzi.” Dragon Boat Festival noon, people will be bought in advance of the Chinese medicine Xiong Huang powder mixed in white wine mixed into Xiong Huang wine, sprinkled in the corners of the courtyard and under the bed of the living room, has a strong mosquito and insecticide effect. At the same time, the powder is mixed with freshly drawn well water, and adults and children wash their faces and bodies with Xiong Huang water, which can play a certain role in preventing skin diseases (it should not be taken internally, otherwise there will be damage to the blood, nerves and liver.) . According to the climate and geographical conditions, around the Dragon Boat Festival, the southern region into the rainy season, during this period not only higher temperatures, the relative humidity of the air is also larger, conducive to the activities of mosquitoes, flies, pests and breeding. And Xiong Huang is a detoxification, insecticidal Chinese medicine, containing toxic arsenic salt ingredients, vermin smell of food that will be poisoned. In addition, and medicine and health care related to the Dragon Boat Festival, of course, not only these good habits. There are “wash a hundred diseases” (decoction with xiong huang medicine), “spray xiong huang wine” (used to drive away pests), “burn the cicada molasses fumigation room” and so on, are very scientific reason for the festival activities. Because before the Dragon Boat Festival, the climate is hot and cold, the temperature is variable, until after the Dragon Boat Festival is officially into the summer, quilts and coats can also be put away for storage, folk have a proverb: “not eat May zong, cold clothes dare not send”. Besides, summer is approaching, the weather turns hot, mosquitoes and insects breed, plague diseases are easy to prevalent, the use of Dragon Boat Festival customs to carry out mass health epidemic prevention work is very beneficial. I think, if the above-mentioned health care practices can be universally implemented, is its positive epidemic prevention role. This is the significance of epidemic prevention and health care we find in the festival customs, but also the unique charm of traditional Chinese medicine in the Dragon Boat Festival.