Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year. The weather in May of the lunar calendar will be hot and humid, easy to breed mosquitoes and various pathogenic microorganisms also proliferate. Dragon Boat Festival gradually evolved into a national fitness, epidemic prevention and dispel diseases, to avoid plague and expel poison, pray for health folk festival. Folk have to eat zongzi, wear scented bags, set calamus …… these Chinese people in the Dragon Boat Festival when the traditional customs, still today by the people’s enthusiasm. But did you know that for more than two thousand years, the long-standing custom of collecting medicinal herbs, avoiding plague and driving away poison, and eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, it has a close origin with the culture of Chinese medicine. From the point of view of Chinese medicine, these traditions inherited for thousands of years, hidden a lot of health care mysteries. The end of the Dragon Boat Festival is the end of the right, people are the heart of heaven and earth, the end of the five elements, so, the end for the beginning. Wu is the right, “a vertical and horizontal for the noon”, vertical and horizontal staggered before the right, staggered for the yin and Yang fight, thus, the yin and Yang staggered positive, is the original meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the end, the beginning, that is, the fifth day of May. The lunar calendar to the Earth’s branch chronology of the month, the first month to build Yin, February for Mao, in order to May for Wu, so called May for the month of Wu, and “the year wide record” records: “the first day of May for the end of a, the first two for the end of two, the number to five, called the end of five”. “Five” and “noon” through, so the Dragon Boat also weighs noon or heavy five. “Eight” things Duanwu health care and health and colorful Duanwu origin said the same, a variety of different customs and habits are still being passed around the country and continue. However, regardless of the title, the meaning reflected in the Dragon Boat Festival is the same. Experts believe that this festival Japan is a kind of love for people’s health, the love of life. The Dragon Boat Festival advocates the reconciliation and balance of man and nature to spend the summer peacefully. So how exactly should the Dragon Boat Festival health care? Traditional Chinese medicine told you to do “eight” things to maintain health care at the Dragon Boat Festival. 1, eat zongzi zongzi contains red beans, red beans are not only rich in protein and a variety of nutrients, and has a water and dampness, and blood drainage, swelling and detoxification and other effects. The human body is often blocked by dampness and heat, so red beans can facilitate water and dampness, detoxify heat, and complement mung beans, which is a good remedy for summer; zongzi contains red dates, which can benefit the spleen and stomach and tonify the middle. Rice dumplings always use reed leaves, and red dates can benefit the spleen and stomach and nourish the middle energy. Therefore, it is good for people with weak spleen and stomach and poor intestines, such as those with indigestion, frequent vomiting and diarrhea, or constipation, and eating more red dates can improve the function of the stomach and intestines. In addition, red dates can also nourish the qi and blood, which is especially helpful for people with deficient qi and blood deficiency, reducing shortness of breath and shortness of breath on weekdays, and increasing physical strength for symptoms such as muscle weakness. Eating glutinous rice can improve exactly this problem. Not to mention the ingredients involved, just the fragrant leaves and soft glutinous rice are enough to whet one’s appetite. For those who have little stomach acid and poor digestion, traditionally known as “stomach cold”, glutinous rice is a very good food; rice dumplings should not be the only food in a meal, must be accompanied by some dishes. Because digestion is fast, blood sugar rises and falls rapidly. If you eat more vegetables to match, you will not have such a strong hunger response after eating dumplings. It is best to drink tea at the same time when eating zongzi, which can help swallowing and digestion. At the same time, it is best to eat zongzi with some vegetables and fruits, preferably cold vegetables, which can increase the intake of fiber, and the vitamin itself is a digestive enzyme, which can promote the digestion of zongzi. 2, hanging joss sticks Many places in China have the custom of hanging joss sticks on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is also a method of preventing infectious diseases. Homemade Dragon Boat Festival incense sacs used in Chinese herbal medicines are atractylodes, patchouli, dogwood, mugwort, cinnamon, sand, dahurica, two grams of each, plus 1 gram of cloves. These herbs will be finely ground, and then placed in a dense cloth bag, sewn together. You can wear it on your chest, waist or navel, or you can hang the bag in the doorway, indoors or in the car. These Chinese herbs, according to Chinese medicine, have the function of dispersing wind and dispelling cold, strengthening the spleen and stomach, regulating qi and relieving pain, and opening nine orifices, thus playing a role in disease prevention; parents can put the incense bag in the child’s coat pocket or pillow, for influenza, diphtheria, chicken pox, epidemic meningitis, measles and other infectious diseases have certain preventive and auxiliary treatment functions. In the summer, many people often feel no appetite, you can also put an incense bag around. Because the aroma of the Chinese medicine in the incense sac is absorbed by the body, it can promote the digestive gland vitality, increase the secretion of fluid, which can enhance appetite; because the drug in the incense sac has the role of the orifice, pregnant women should be used with caution. In addition to keep the incense sacs dry, pay attention to waterproof and moisture-proof. If the incense sacs contact the skin at the phenomenon of red rash, itching, etc., please immediately remove the incense sacs, can be hung in the indoor air circulation. 3, drink Xiong Huang wine wine medical history source “Qing Jia Lu” records: “research Xiong Huang end, crumbs Pu root, and wine to drink, called Xiong Huang wine. China’s folk have “early Dragon Boat Festival, late autumn” said, that Chen is the dragon, Chen is the time of the dragon rain, in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival Xiong Huang wine banquet, is the people hope that the wind and rain, a good year of harvest. The method of preparing Xiong Huang wine is very simple, for adults to drink, then take a small amount of water fly treatment of Xiong Huang fine powder, the current pharmacopoeia provides for the internal consumption of 0.05 grams to 0.1 grams into a small bowl or cup, and then add 15 ml ~ 20 ml of white wine, stirring it with chopsticks to dissolve, and then the upper layer with a slight red-yellow liquor poured into the quantitative white wine, the bottom of the bowl or cup of sediment is discarded, the amount of drinking About 15ml. 4.Race dragon boat and wash Longchu water, Longchu water is also the water that dragon boat has competed, people think it is good water and living water, so they often have the custom of drinking Longchu water and washing Longchu water bath, and there is also the proverb of “washing Longchu water in May festival”, and the rowing movement is more beneficial to “sitting” people. It is more beneficial for “sitting” people. The action of double oar rowing at the same time can make both sides of the body get a good exercise, and the action of pulling back, pushing forward and shaking the oar in rowing is a very good exercise for the muscles of the upper body, which improves the muscle quality and the ability to work together, and the back and forth pitching action of the waist and abdomen in the process of rowing generally can exercise the waist and abdomen muscles well, and the effect of reducing the abdominal fat is also very obvious; it can improve lumbar muscle strain, muscle stiffness, and intervertebral discs and other health problems, have played a very good role 5, hanging mugwort calamus folk proverb says: “Qingming insert willow, Dragon Boat Festival insert mugwort”. In the Dragon Boat Festival, people put moxa and calamus as one of the important elements. Every home is sprinkled court, with calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrows, hanging in the hall. Chinese medicine to moxa into the medicine, there is a rational blood, warm the uterus, dispel cold and damp function. Calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, its narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil, is a refreshing, bone and stagnant, insecticidal and sterilizing drugs. 6, boiled garlic Sparse garlic is a traditional Chinese medicine, taste pungent sweet, can kill poison sterilization, cooked to clear the intestines and stomach toxins, blood vessels. In the morning of Duan Yang Festival, it is customary to cook new garlic in most parts of the country to unblock the blood vessels and sterilize and disinfect. The taste of garlic is also known to everyone, and not many people dare to talk after eating it. But did you know? In fact, garlic is known as the “health guard” of human beings. Garlic contains about 0.2% of volatile oil, the main component of which is allicin, which has an antiseptic effect. Modern medical research proves that garlic has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects, protects the liver, regulates blood sugar, protects the cardiovascular system, resists hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis, and resists platelet agglutination. Nutrition experts have found that garlic extract has anti-tumor effects, and it is recommended to eat 3-5 grams of garlic raw daily. 7, roll eat chicken, duck and goose eggs are popular throughout the country. In the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the northeastern region is the elders will be cooked chicken, duck and goose eggs on the belly of children rolling, and then peel the skin for children to eat, it is said that this can be done to avoid the children’s stomach pain, the reality is that the festival is a kind of playful children’s games. According to Chinese medicine, chicken, duck and goose eggs have different medicinal properties, so people should choose according to their own constitution. Eggs are flat and suitable for most people to eat, especially when malnutrition can restore strength. However, the egg white is not easy to digest, so the elderly and those with poor stomach and intestines should eat less. Duck eggs are cool in nature and can be eaten to clear heat and detoxify the body when you have acne or fire. People with a cold body and a cold spleen should eat less. Goose eggs are warm in nature, Chinese medicine believes that it can nourish the middle and benefit the qi, the elderly, people with physical deficiency can eat goose eggs to replenish the body. 8, eat “five yellows” Dragon Boat Festival, why eat “five yellows”? Experts say, this is the custom of the Jiangnan area, yellow in Chinese culture is a respectable color, May wheat ripe, is also a harvest scene, with auspicious meaning; the yellow of the yellow, grams kill evil poison, also has the role of driving away the May climate of evil. Therefore, eat “five yellow” purpose is to drive away the evil poison, for good luck. The biggest custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to eat, ancient Nanjing and Suzhou, Changzhou, Hangzhou are eating ‘five yellow’, yellow fish, cucumber, eels, duck egg yolk, Xiong Huang wine, this is the ‘five yellow’. At noon of the Dragon Boat Festival, it is most appropriate to eat five yellow meals, that is, five kinds of yellow food mixed together to eat. Because the theory of Chinese medicine, Dragon Boat Festival is in the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is the most vigorous time of the year, and noon, and is the most vigorous time of the day, can use the power of the Dragon Boat Festival, curb bad luck, enhance their energy. In addition to “five yellow”, Nanjing, there are “five poison”, experts say: “Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of May, May is the only month, the fifth day is the only day, in the only month of the only day that is ‘poison gas ‘ rushed to the sky, so the Dragon Boat Festival this day to pay attention to prevent the five poisons, ‘five poisons’ is poisonous snakes, centipedes, spiders, geckos, toads. And Nanjing there is a dish called ‘fried five poisons’, in the end which is five dishes? ‘fried five poisons’ that is silverfish, shrimp, wild rice, leeks and dried black bean curd put together fried, is the Dragon Boat Festival to eat”. Do the above “eight” things, but also need to pay attention to the “four” points 1, moderate exercise. Dragon Boat Festival, sports and recreational activities is undoubtedly an important element, the dragon boat race, the water to grab the ducks of the wild, hiking and hiking magnificent scenery, etc., are signaling that: hot days also need to exercise. Although there is no need to have “summer training three volts” of intensity, but moderate movement, sweating, the organism is very good. 2, drive away the evil poison. Dragon Boat Festival between the mango and summer solstice, when the weather is warm and hot, everything grows, branches and leaves flourish, at the same time, mosquitoes, flies, epidemics, etc. also a lot of breeding. Folk rhyme says: “Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is hot, five poisons awake, not peace.” So, the Dragon Boat Festival this day, families are to calamus, moxa inserted in the lintel, hanging in the hall; some with moxa, calamus boiling water bath, and sprayed in front of the house; some drinking Xiong Huang wine detoxification or directly coated with wine in the place of poisonous insect bites. There are many ways, not one by one, the purpose is to get rid of harm and disease, auspicious well-being. 3, the heart should be clear. Summer more humidity and heat, Yang Qi is also sufficient. At this time, God should be safe, the heart should be quiet. The heart is clear and cool, without too many distractions, behavior will not be anxious. It is advisable to sleep at night and get up early, and arrange a certain amount of sleep time at noon to energize and enhance physical strength. Diet should be light. 4, good at preventing heat. High summer temperatures, the heat is unbearable, heat is necessary to prevent heat, but do not be overly afraid of heat, and do not be overly afraid of the sun. The body should follow this cycle, if it stays in a cool place in hot weather, its own “heat protection system” will not be exercised, and in the long run its function will gradually degenerate, which is not good for health. The first thing you need to do is to get rid of the dampness and help the sun. The Chinese medicine has always been “Dragon Boat Moxibustion” tradition, in order to the Dragon Boat Festival is very strong Yang Qi use mugwort to reach in the body, so as to achieve far better than the usual tonic effect, and even to achieve winter and summer treatment. In the past, there is a folk proverb: the family has three years of moxa, the doctor does not come. Around the Dragon Boat Festival, the temperature and humidity are more suitable for the reproduction of bacteria, which can easily cause epidemics such as colds. The mugwort contains eucalyptus oleoresin, which has the effect of inhibiting the growth of microorganisms and killing them, and has a special smell, which has a good effect of repelling insects. In terms of health care, the ancients would process the mugwort leaves into “moxa”, and then use the moxa or other drugs placed on the body’s acupuncture points to burn and warm them, using the gentle heat of the moxibustion fire and the effect of the drugs to warm the qi and blood through the conduction of the meridians and strengthen the body’s immunity. In June, with the arrival of the rainy season, the hot and humid weather will bring many discomforts to the body. Generally people who have internal dampness, and then encounter a high humidity environment, it is easy to induce various diseases. So this season, it is worth to use moxibustion to get rid of dampness health care. The moxibustion health care points often chosen foot three li: with the spleen and stomach, help transport, regulate the qi and blood, support the correct qi, strong yuan yang, orange wind evil and strengthen the body to benefit life. Guan Yuan: moxibustion can adjust the tension of the bladder, improve the immunity of the body, prevent disease and strengthen the body health. Qihai: moxibustion can adjust the function of the stomach, intestines and kidneys, improve the immunity of the body. Kidney Yu: It has the strong effect of tonifying the kidney and benefiting the essence to strengthen the waist and back, to strengthen the ears and eyes, to strengthen the bones and fitness, and to warm the yang and disperse the cold. Sanyinjiao: moxibustion can adjust the endocrine function, female reproductive function, adjust the heart rhythm, adjust insulin secretion, and prevent reproductive system diseases.