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Hanging acorus on the door at Dragon Boat Festival - I heard it's for... repelling mosquitoes?
Every year in the fifth lunar month, acorus and mugwort become honored guests in some people's homes. In the Jiangsu and Zhejiang region, the traditional Dragon Boat Festival custom has always been for every household to hang acorus and mugwort at their door. The acorus mentioned here refers to the plant with the scientific name Acorus calamus...
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This fragrant, beautiful Dragon Boat Festival flower can also be eaten as a wild vegetable - do you know it?
At the start of June, the weather in the north is still fairly cool, but in the Jiangnan region it is already so hot that people are drenched in sweat. To avoid the scorching sun, people choose to go out early in the morning to buy groceries. The Dragon Boat Festival is almost here, and the vendors at the vegetable market have also started selling...
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Hanging calamus on the door at Dragon Boat Festival: is it to ward off evil or to repel mosquitoes?
On the fifth day of the fifth month, hang calamus! Bring a pot of calamus bonsai into your home and it instantly looks classy! Calamus, which we call pucao here, grows in river ponds and wetlands. As long as there is plenty of water, it can grow to over one meter tall, with slender emerald-green leaves and a fragrance. Folk...
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Using tree leaves to wrap zongzi at Dragon Boat Festival: the second method is the simplest, yet few people use it
The Dragon Boat Festival is just a few days away. For food lovers, the Dragon Boat Festival is zongzi festival, and there is also a short holiday of a few days, which is really something to look forward to. Zongzi is a traditional food of China's Dragon Boat Festival. Whether eaten directly dipped in sugar...
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The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching: these 4 kinds of leaves can be used to wrap zongzi, and the third is the easiest to use yet often overlooked
Friendly reminder: Hemu Report aims to share and popularize information about various plants and their uses, for reference only. If medicinal use is needed, it is recommended to consult a professional physician to avoid problems! There is about one week left until the Dragon Boat Festival, and the Dragon Boat Festival is not only a traditional festival in our country...
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Hanging mugwort on the door at Dragon Boat Festival: keeps mosquitoes and evil spirits away, and is full of love
Ai Hao, that is, mugwort. I believe many people have heard of mugwort's great reputation. Mugwort has a wide range of uses: it can be eaten, used as medicine, and used to repel mosquitoes. Here, for a girl getting married, a bundle of mugwort absolutely cannot be missing from her dowry. It symbolizes...
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What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival? Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats, and don't forget to ward off the Five Poisons
The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon, and there are quite a lot of customs for it, such as the ones we are more familiar with: eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, drinking realgar wine, wearing colorful strings, eating salted duck eggs, hanging mugwort, and so on. Of course, there is also warding off the Five Poisons. You can...
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For the Dragon Boat Festival, whether you have money or not, displaying these bonsai at home is especially impressive
The Dragon Boat Festival is almost here! Whether you have money or not, displaying these bonsai at home is especially impressive when relatives come to visit. Trunk-style Chinese ash (Fraxinus chinensis) bonsai potted greenery fruit flowers ash tree has a straight trunk and beautiful tree shape, and is a potted green plant deeply loved by everyone ...
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Eating "Five Poison" cakes at Dragon Boat Festival: what are the five poisonous creatures on the patterns?
When it comes to Dragon Boat Festival, the first things that come to mind may be zongzi, dragon boats and Qu Yuan, but according to textual research, as early as the Spring and Autumn period before Qu Yuan, ritual activities were already regularly held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in places such as Chu, Wu and Yue. These activities...
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Going to My Boyfriend's House for a Meal on Dragon Boat Festival, His Mother Was Selling Watermelons Under the Scorching Sun, I Left 100,000 and Walked Away
(From a reader submission, images in this article are from the internet) Going to my boyfriend's house for a meal on Dragon Boat Festival, his mother was selling watermelons under the scorching sun, I left 100,000 and walked away. People nowadays all say, "Money isn't everything, but without money, you can't do anything at all."...
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