With the Dragon Boat Festival coming

The festive atmosphere in the village is also getting stronger.

Early the next morning, Zhang Feng and Yiyi took their grandparents and walked slowly to the back mountain.

Everyone is ready to go to the mountain to pick some wormwood, because hanging wormwood at the gate during the Dragon Boat Festival is a customary tradition, and I don't know how many years this custom has been spreading.

"Grandpa, why do you want to hang wormwood during the Dragon Boat Festival?" On the way, Yiyi asked Grandpa curiously.

"Hehe, there are many things to say about hanging wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival............" The old man smiled and began to speak slowly, giving young people all kinds of knowledge about the Dragon Boat Festival.

Hanging mugwort not only has the meaning of praying for peace and auspiciousness, but also has the legend that it can also ward off evil spirits.

Ordinary people also have the custom of planting wormwood in front and back of the house to seek good luck. Some areas also have the Dragon Boat Festival to paste the "noon couplet", its role is the same as the spirit rune, some noon couplets have the following sentence "hand holding the Ai flag to recruit a hundred blessings, the door hangs the sword to cut a thousand evils".

In addition to hanging wormwood at the door of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are calamus (pu jian) or pomegranate, garlic and so on.

Generally, people usually tie mugwort, banyan, and calamus into a bunch with red paper, and then insert or hang them on the door. Because the calamus is the head of the five rui in the sky, it symbolizes the sword that drives away bad luck, because the growing season and shape are regarded as the "hundred yin qi", and the leaves are sword-shaped, and they can be inserted in the door to ward off evil spirits. Therefore, the monks called it "Water Sword", and later customs extended it to "Pu Sword", which can kill thousands of evils.

"Holding the Ai flag to recruit a hundred blessings, the door hangs a sword to cut a thousand evils."

During the Dragon Boat Festival, wormwood and pampas are hung at the door, just like pasting a spiritual rune, which can seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. Wormwood stands for Zhao Baifu, a medicinal herb that can cure diseases, and when inserted at the door, it can make the body healthy.

In ancient China, it has always been a medicinal plant, and the moxibustion method in acupuncture is to use wormwood as the main ingredient and burn it on the acupuncture points to cure diseases.

The legend that wormwood can drive away evil spirits has been circulated for a long time, mainly because it has the function of medicine, like Zong Yi's "Jing Chu Years Chronicles" recorded that "when the rooster is not crowing, pick wormwood like a humanoid person, take it, collect it with moxibustion, and test it." It is the day of the wormwood in the form of a human being, hanging on the household, which can be poisonous. ”

"Grandpa, did the Dragon Boat Festival hang wormwood after Qu Yuan's death??" Yiyi asked the old man with big eyes blinking like a curious baby.

"Hehe, that's not Oh, it is said that in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the Huangchao Uprising swept the land of China...... "Although the old man is just a cook, he has read a lot of books, just like a knowledgeable old professor, who will hang wormwood one by one.

Legend has it that the Huangchao rebels attacked the Central Plains when it was the Dragon Boat Festival.

The local officials then released a rumor: "Huangchao shook the knife across the mountain, and the head fell to the ground!" Mobilizing people to flee their homes is to walk the Yellow Nest. In fact, it was to make it impossible for the rebels to contact the people, so as to restrain the growing trend of the rebels.

In a family in the Central Plains, the men have gone out, and there are only one woman and two children in the family, one child is her own child, and the other child is the orphan of her sister-in-law. Her own child was just able to walk, and her sister-in-law's orphan was a year older than her own child. The woman fled with her two children, carrying her sister-in-law's orphan on her back, but leaving her own child, who was barely able to walk, walk, but left behind.

After walking a short distance, I met a man in yellow and asked: Why doesn't my sister-in-law let the big children walk, but let the small children walk?; The woman told the truth, and the man in yellow was very moved after hearing it, and said: You have broken the knife of the Yellow Nest to do loyal and righteous things in danger, and the Yellow Nest can no longer take your head, in fact, you only need to insert wormwood at the door of the house, indicating that your home is a loyal and righteous family, and the Yellow Nest will be helpless to you. After that, he disappeared.

The woman thought that it was the immortal's guidance, so she went home and did what she said, and along the way asked the fleeing people to insert wormwood to break the knife of the yellow nest. Therefore, the woman is usually kind and does many good deeds, and many people believe that according to the words, there is no need to go to the yellow nest by inserting wormwood at the door of the house, and the Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated at home.

Sure enough, when the rebels crossed the border, they saw the people who planted wormwood in their homes, and no one disturbed them, and the doctors accompanying the army also saw the people and asked about their suffering. For a while, the news of the woman's encounter with the guidance of the immortals spread in various places, and the commoners' homes no longer walked the Yellow Nest, but planted wormwood for the Dragon Boat Festival, and followed the woman's loyalty.

In fact, the man in yellow is the forward strategist of the Yellow Nest Righteous Army, and his martial arts are strong. Everywhere the rebels went, there were uninhabited villages, and the rebels had no one to support them, and they became lonely.

The strategist knew that something was wrong, turned into plain clothes, and searched for the reason alone, and met a woman. Suddenly he disappeared, but jumped up on the tree and hidden. The strategist gave a small plan, not only broke the yellow nest of the government across the mountain to shake the knife, the head fell to the rumors, for the righteous army to gain the support of the people, but also to make the people accumulate virtue and do good deeds, the world then inherited this tradition, become today's Dragon Boat Festival custom of inserting wormwood.

After Zhang Feng finished the story told by the old man, he shook his head with a smile.

"Hehe, why did Xiao Feng shake his head??" Seeing Zhang Feng's shaking of his head, Grandma Liu asked with a smile.

"It's nothing! I just think that the rebel army at that time was definitely not so disciplined, and the peasant rebel army of all dynasties and generations in ancient times shouted slogans loudly, but where the rebel army passed, it was like locusts passing through the ground, and almost all of them ......were ruined and killed," Zhang Feng said with a wry smile.

"Ah, isn't it? Didn't you say that the righteous army was all righteous divisions?" Yiyi asked in surprise, because that's how it is played on TV!

"Hehe, how is that possible!Xiao Feng is right, the military discipline of the ancient rebel army is not very good, even Zhu Yuanzhang's Red Turban Army has killed many innocent people, and it has slaughtered the city back then!" the old man explained with a smile.

"So, how is it different from what is on TV?" Yiyi still dared to believe it, because this is not what is said in the textbook or on TV.

"Of course, TV is impossible, if you write about some scenes of burning and looting, it is estimated that you will not be able to pass the censorship, and the strict discipline of the rebel army is more in line with everyone's values. The old man said with a smile.

"The ancient army is worse than bad, as long as the righteous army is better than the army of the imperial court, then after the successful rebellion, it will definitely leave a reputation of strict military discipline and no crime in autumn. Zhang Feng also added with a smile.

In the past few years, almost all of the wormwood in the village has been looted by the villagers, and only some are sporadically missed in the farther mountain forests.

But with the improvement of everyone's life in recent years, the wormwood at the edge of the village has gradually increased.

Not long after everyone walked, as soon as they entered the back mountain, they saw traces of wormwood on the barren mountain on the side of the road.

"Hey, grandparents, look, there are a few wormwoods over there!" Zhang Feng's eyes were sharp, and he saw the wormwood not far away, and exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes, yes, we are really lucky, we just met wormwood as soon as we entered the mountain, hahahaha......" The old man looked at it and immediately laughed happily.

Yiyi and her grandmother were also very happy, but they didn't expect to have a harvest as soon as they walked into the back mountain.