But what is staggering is ......

I could clearly hear her footsteps.

And judging by the footsteps, the sound is getting closer.

Just by the shadow on the glass, the fat man could tell: "It's Su Xuejing... Mr. Jiang, you, you have to help me round the field!"

I relaxed: "Who!?"

Sure enough, Su Xuejing responded: "Mr. Jiang....my cousin, is he okay?"

"He," I said, looking at the fat man, "in a word... But it's not dangerous for now!"

I walked out of the bathroom and said to Su Xuejing in the bathroom: "Go and help me find something!"

"What do you need?" Su Xue said hurriedly, "You can arrange for me to prepare.....

"Okay," I was not polite, and directly instructed her to go back to the Su family's villa and help me bring all the cinnabar brushes, red rope hanging bells, and so on.

In fact, there is no lack of ingredients to support her.....

"What about the others?" Su Xuejing remembered and confirmed, "Anything else, do you need anything special?"

"I still need fine needles, the seven fine needles I released to Aunt Su at the beginning, and finally ......" I thought about the current situation and said, "The fat man's evil qi has entered his body, and if he can find wormwood, it will be even better!!"

"Wormwood?" Su Xuejing was stunned: "This thing shouldn't be difficult to buy!"

"But don't buy it in the market," I stressed, "The wormwood I want is hung at the door on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival..."

"But," Su Xuejing was embarrassed: "This Dragon Boat Festival is still half a month away!"

"Then look for last year's," I believe, "some elderly apartments in Beijing, those who are old, there will definitely be people who are used to hanging Ai."

"Why do you have to hang wormwood at the door during the Dragon Boat Festival?" Su Xuejing was stunned: "Is there anything special about this?"

"Of course," I elaborated, "Actually, the Dragon Boat Festival is one of the traditional festivals, and according to legend, at 12 noon on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival every year, eggs can stand upright on the ground... Because the noon of this day is the auspicious day of the year when the yang energy is the most vigorous, when the round egg stands on the ground, it can absorb the righteous energy of heaven and earth, and then it will not fall.

Of course, this is just a folk saying....If you say it from a scientific point of view, it is said that because at noon of the Dragon Boat Festival, the sun shines directly on the northern hemisphere, and under the interaction of solar gravity and gravity, things standing on the ground are not easy to fall, so that eggs can easily stand without falling.

Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, it is the annual Dragon Boat Festival. Speaking of this festival, there are not only the customs and anecdotes mentioned above, but also various legends and festivals.

When it comes to the Dragon Boat Festival, many people first think of the legend of Qu Yuan's throwing into the river, however, in fact, the emergence of the Dragon Boat Festival custom is far earlier than the legend of Qu Yuan. One of the earliest origin legends is derived from the "taboo of the evil day".

The Dragon Boat Festival in May is in the humid and sultry summer, which is the high incidence period of various plague diseases. In ancient times, when the social productivity was backward and the level of medical care was low, once you were infected and sick, it was very likely that you would lose your life. For this reason, many activities and customs have been derived around the exorcism of drugs and evil spirits, such as inserting mugwort leaves, drinking calamus wine, etc.

"Dijing Jingwulu" said that the Dragon Boat Festival "soaked wine with calamus, inserted the door with mugwort, painted ears and nose with realgar, and avoided insect poison in the day". "Jing Chu Years Chronicles" believes that the purpose of "poisoning gas" can be achieved.

Nowadays, to this day, the custom of picking wormwood and hanging wormwood during the Dragon Boat Festival has long been popularized to every household. Every year on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, every household will "insert wormwood" and hang wormwood, which is the so-called "Qingming willow insertion, Dragon Boat Festival wormwood".

Many customs and activities of the Dragon Boat Festival are carried out around the expulsion of poison and evil spirits, and the choice of wormwood is because the folk believe that wormwood has the effect of driving away drugs, warding off evil spirits and keeping peace.

From a scientific point of view, this is not pure superstition. Wormwood, the plant has a strong aroma, a long time ago, the ancients knew that wormwood is a "universal herb", with mosquito repellent, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, swelling and pain relief, etc., people often use wormwood to wash hair, skin care, etc. old

It is not unreasonable to say that "the family has three years of love, and Langzhong does not use it".

The ancients believed that on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, all herbs were medicines, and the medicinal properties of wormwood at this time were also the strongest, so on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, every household would pick wormwood, eat wormwood, and hang wormwood.

The earliest record of picking wormwood can be traced back to the earliest literary source in China, the Book of Songs, Wang Feng Caige, which records: "Pi Cai Mugwort, not seen for a day, like three years old." It can be seen that as early as a long time ago, picking wormwood has been a part of people's production and labor.

For another example, in Tan Lin's "Commentary on the Chronicles of Jing Chu Nian", there is such a record of the custom of "picking Ai":

On May 5, the four people stepped on the grass together, and there was a scene of fighting the grass. Cai Ai thought it was a person, hanging on the door, and using poison gas.

This can be said to be the earliest and clearest record of ancient people picking wormwood and hanging wormwood during the Dragon Boat Festival.

In ancient times, people would also make mugwort flowers to ward off evil spirits. What is Aihu? It refers to making wormwood into the shape of a tiger, or sewing it with colored silk in the shape of a tiger, and gluing mugwort leaves on top. The same is true for mugwort flowers, which are cut into the shape of flowers, or made of materials such as silk.

With the development of the times, to this day, the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates Qu Yuan, eats zongzi, and races dragon boats, and the custom of "picking Ai" has also continued.

Nowadays, in rural areas, on the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, people will go up the mountain and down the ground with a sickle to cut wormwood, so that they can hang wormwood in front of the door early, pray for safety, and drive away poison. In some places, people will also use mugwort leaves to decoction water to boil soup for bathing, or bundle wormwood into a bundle and use mugwort leaves to light a fire, so as to achieve the purpose of warding off evil spirits.

So......

I thought, "The fat man's evil qi enters his body, which is more serious than Aunt Su's condition, and if he has wormwood, it can better help him expel the evil qi in his body!"

"I see," after listening for a long time, Su Xuejing realized it... He immediately said, "Don't worry, wormwood, I'll find it."

With that, she turned and left.

Watch her walk back to the living room and walk out of the door of the fat man's house.

After she slammed the door shut..... I kicked in relief.

When he returned to the bathroom, he said to the fat man, "Now you can rest assured, Su Xuejing won't be able to come back in two or three hours!"

"Righteousness," the fat man complimented, "Mr. Jiang... This time, I'm sorry for you!"

"You're welcome, I should have paid back the last time, the rental house was evil, and the woman in white was in the ghost, you helped me," I then asked the fat man, "Where is the kitchen?"

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