Dragon Boat Festival eat zongzi sacrifice Qu Yuan this is the Chinese people know the custom. But the Dragon Boat Festival is much more than just eating zongzi so simple. The name of the Dragon Boat Festival called more than twenty, such as the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Yang Festival, the heavy five festival, the heavy noon festival, the day in the festival, summer festival, May Festival, calamus festival, Pu Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, bath orchid festival, Qu Yuan day, the day of the festival, daughter festival, the ground La Festival, poet festival, dragon day, noon, lantern festival, five eggs festival and so on. In this festival, people drink Xionghuang wine, wear mugwort, bathe in orchid soup, eat five yellows, and also pick medicine and fight grass. Unlike other festivals, this festival in honor of Qu Yuan has a strong medicinal flavor in its various aliases and customs, which is inseparable from the weather factors during the Dragon Boat Festival. During the Dragon Boat Festival, it is in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River plum rainy season. Proverb: “rain hit the head of the yellow plum, forty-five days without day”. Continuous cloudy rain, high temperature and humidity is the main feature of the plum rains. “In this high temperature and high humidity environment, the so-called snakes, scorpions, centipedes, geckos, toads, the five poisonous activities are frequent, a variety of bacteria, poisonous insects reproduction is also unusually fierce. At the same time, in the high temperature and humidity of the Dragon Boat Festival, people are also susceptible to wet poisoning due to a bad environment.” Shanghai Tongji Hospital, chief physician Li Hao said, because of the fear of “five poisons” bite or infected with damp poison disease, the Dragon Boat Festival during a variety of dampness to avoid the poison of the law has become customary. And the Dragon Boat Festival during the five poisons cake, five poisons clothes, five poisons dishes, five poisons paper cutting, etc., reflect the importance people attach to the connotation of this custom. Wonderful use of Xiong Huang wine – careful to use “poison against poison” eat zongzi drink Xiong Huang wine, which seems to be the inherent impression of people for the Dragon Boat Festival customs. Xiong Huang wine to drive the five poisons to avoid evil is also widely known. Li Hao said, as a traditional Chinese medicine, Xiong Huang does have a certain role in removing bacteria. But because Xiong Huang contains arsenic, itself also toxic, heated to a certain degree will be more oxidized into arsenic, so improper handling can easily cause human poisoning. “Although Xiong Huang wine and vermilion wine can enable people to avoid sleep and rashes that occur after insect bites, I strongly recommend not drinking Xiong Huang wine, especially not homemade Xiong Huang wine. If you need to ward off the five poisons, you can use yellow wine instead of stellar wine vermilion wine, or you can follow the tradition of using stellar wine applied to your body to defend against the five poisons.” Calamus wine, smoked moxa, Mu Lan soup – to aromatize moisture to drive away the five poisons and Xiong Huang wine is different, Li Hao believes that the Dragon Boat Festival custom of calamus wine can be safe to drink. It is said that calamus wine has a warm nature and pungent taste characteristics. The lungs and stomach are beneficial, can prolong life. Li Hao believes that calamus wine has the effect of aromatic opening of the body, can prevent mosquito bites. It is helpful to avoid insect bite dermatitis caused by the bite. Drinking during the Dragon Boat Festival helps to get rid of insect poison and maintain health. Li Hao said, due to the Dragon Boat Festival during the rainy period, heavy dampness, with “aromatic dampness” effect of various types of Chinese herbs in the Dragon Boat Festival custom accounted for a large proportion. “Some places also have to specialize in picking herbs, the collection of dampness to remove poison herbs on a very high status.” For many people in recent years to resume the habit of Mu Lan Tang, Li Hao said, bathing with Chinese herbs is originally a way of health care to strengthen the body, and Mu Lan Tang is also a way of Duanwu used to remove dampness and drive away toxins. “Mu Lan soup in the Lan is the Chinese medicine of pelargonium, it aromatic dampness, especially in the rainy season to see the tongue thick and greasy, damp we also like to add pelargonium this type of Chinese medicine. You can wash it as herbal medicine or take it in decoction with 10 grams of decoction, which can achieve the purpose of dissolving dampness and expelling poison.” As a traditional custom, many people want to smoke mugwort in the Dragon Boat Festival, and the traditional Dragon Boat Festival scented bag ingredients also contain the same mugwort leaves, which is ostensibly to drive away evil spirits, in fact, is still the embodiment of the principle of traditional Chinese medicine aromatic dampness to avoid poison. “In fact, because the mugwort leaves are pungent and warm, in Chinese medicine often to mugwort leaves or mugwort to do acupuncture or grass fumigation to soothe the meridians. And inhaled into the body of mugwort flavor, can smooth the whole body of qi and blood, help blood circulation.” The reporter learned that, because the Dragon Boat Festival is the plum rainy season, mugwort decoction to take or bath on the plum rainy season prone to gynecological diseases also have a better help, but the body is easy to fire people should be cautious with mugwort, often dry mouth, bitter mouth, face heat, constipation, mouth broken, hemorrhoids, yin deficiency hyperactivity, irritability and sweating, cough, vomiting blood, etc. are not suitable to use mugwort, so as not to aggravate the condition. Dragon Boat Festival zongzi fragrance – eaters beware of gastrointestinal discomfort spleen deficiency wet obstruction Dragon Boat Festival the biggest custom than eating zongzi. With the development of the times, the patterns of zongzi are increasing day by day. But because the main component of the zongzi is glutinous rice, and thus should not eat too much, otherwise it is easy to cause excessive stomach acid. Li Hao said, especially the stomach and epigastric discomfort of people try to eat less glutinous rice, to avoid causing indigestion. As the dumplings are made more and more exquisite, people’s love for the custom of eating dumplings has been higher. However, many doctors have said that uncontrolled consumption of zongzi often causes gastrointestinal discomfort. The symptoms may be even stronger during the humid and hot Dragon Boat Festival. Experts suggest that eating zongzi can be accompanied by drinking tea to help swallowing and digestion; at the same time, do not neglect the intake of vegetables and fruits to avoid insufficient fiber intake. The Dragon Boat Festival is in the rainy season, the stomach and intestines are also affected by the high temperature and high humidity during the rainy period. During the Dragon Boat Festival, once the diet is not careful, in the humid weather is prone to spleen deficiency, which in turn causes internal humidity. Spleen deficiency after the combination of internal and external moisture, prone to poor digestion, people fatigue and tiredness, poor appetite, loose stools, and then the development will appear thick and greasy tongue coating, which is a common symptom of dampness obstruction during the Dragon Boat plum rains. “To prevent dampness, I recommend eating a little more barley, which is to help strengthen the spleen and dampness, you can also eat a little spleen-boosting role of yam, gorgonians, these things help prevent dampness can also strengthen the spleen and regulate the function of the stomach and intestines. If you are really uncomfortable, you can come to the hospital to see a Chinese medicine doctor and eat some dampness Huo Xiang Zheng Qi tablets to help improve the symptoms of dampness. This season food is prone to spoilage and is more likely to cause digestive disorders than other seasons due to indigestion.”