“Smoke, moonlight, and moonlight are the same as those in the golden autumn.†July 7th is the Tanabata Festival. The Tanabata Festival is the most romantic traditional festival in China. Many interesting Tanabata customs deeply infiltrate the Chinese medicine culture of the motherland. .
Formula treatment and disease prevention
There is a tradition of dispensing medicine on the occasion of the Chinese Valentine’s Day. People often use medicinal herbs such as pine and cypress. They even claim that they are loose, serve Bozi, and fold lotus leaves, and call them immortal fairy drugs. Chinese medicine believes that eating pine nuts fitness for a long time, moisturizing the skin, longevity; "Yu Xi medicine solution" that "the lungs and cough, intestinal laxative, switch by Zhuo, Ze skin Rong hair", "Seafood Materia Medica," said it " Jiufu, who is light and stagnant, will not be old; “The Qing Dynasty will also list pine nuts as a royal meal. Bozi has a strong aroma that can nourish the body and relieve sweating and intestines; "Ben Cao Bei Bian" contains, "Where the spleen medicine is more dry, Bo Ziren's medicine is moist and Shu Xiang can comfort the spleen, and the spleen-dried medicine can be combined with the best." The lotus leaf can clear away heat and relieve heat, send Qing Yang, cool blood to stop bleeding, "Southern Yunnan Materia Medica" said it "the wind of the head of the supernatant is hot, dizziness, clear phlegm, deflated, vomiting, head stuffy pain."
During the Chinese Tanabata, some more practical prescriptions are often used. Such as sunburn soup cure lice, the banyan twigs cut into small pieces, decocted until the liquid was green, first smoked after the wash hemorrhoids, there is heat and cooling blood, Qinggan Xiehuo the role of good effect; fried bitter melon governance eye, The bitter gourd has the ability to clear away heat and purify the eyes, and it can treat red-eye pain. "Sang Sheng Bian" contains its "except evil heat, lack of solution, and pure heart and eyesight"; picking guatye under the guillotine, Guati is listed as a top grade by the "Ben Jing". "Do not record" cloud, "Student Gaoping Ze, July 7 mining", "the treatment of malaria, no question asked for a long time."
In the Tanabata Festival, the Hakka people in the west of Guizhou used to use the waxy gourd squash and water to boil, and then sealed and stored with clean jars of algae to treat fever, headache, heat stroke, and convulsions. This is based on medical science. "Bencao Qiuyuan" says that the fairy grass can "clear heat and heat, solve the heat and poison of the internal organs, and rule the wine style". "Ben Cao Zaixin" says the wax gourd "in addition to the heart fire, spit fire, dampness Wind, swelling and thirst quenching summer heat."
Water storage and evil prevention
The habit of storing water in the Tanabata is long-standing. Yongzheng "Guangdong Annals" contains, "The home is wells Huashui water storage, to prepare the wine pulp, Sheng Sheng water," Guangxu "Huizhou Fu Chi customs" also remember: "The Tanabata, men and women morning up from the water storage, that' Tanabata Water', drinking can cure diseases and eyesight." People pick up water on the morning of Tanabata and use it to store it for use in the treatment of scabs, removal of wet poisons, and treatment of multiple types of heat. Chinese medicine practitioners believe that drinking water in wells can help eliminate heat, detoxify the body, help urine to become hot, difficult, and drunk. "Compendium of Materia Medica," said, "The new water wells, cure patients with the disease, Ping Dan first, for the well water, its function is very wide, but also different from the other, indictment of enthusiasm, wash the skin in the eyes." "Panghu Settlement Party" recorded a solution of shochu drunk and died: "Immediately flooding with new water well, carefully irrigation, to Su Nai has."
The Tanabata is also popular with a basin that receives dew, saying that it is tears when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet. If it is wiped on the eyes and hands, it will make the eyes clear and fast, and it will give the child a decocting effect. Chinese medicine practitioners believe that dew can be used as a medicine to detoxify the insecticides of the lungs, or to treat powders containing cesium and insects as external preparations, which can enhance curative effect.
Decoction shampoo hair care
Women's Tanabata shampoo is also a special custom. Hunan's "Xi County Chronicle" records that "on July 7th, women employed Bai Ye, Tao Zhi, Jian Tang Mu Fat". Qi Jun, a Taiwanese writer originating from Zhejiang Province, also mentioned in the "Shu" that his mother-in-law and his uncle and other son-in-law were sent on the Tanabata Mu. In some areas, unmarried women like to wash their hair with sap or tree branches of a tree, such as saponaria sinensis, during festivals. The legend is not only young and beautiful, it can also be found as soon as possible. In addition to females wishing for fairy-tale protection, there are also certain medical reasons. Such as saponin branch leaves Jiantang Mu hair, to heat and dampness, eliminate excess fat, smooth hair follicles, hair loss prevention and hair loss effect is quite good, will not stimulate the scalp. Another example is the dark hair effect of black ebony sap.
Eat seasonal foods to keep fit
Tanabata's worship of the Weaver Girl is a major event for girls and young women. The worship offerings include tea, wine, fresh fruits, etc. The five sons (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, and melon seeds) are indispensable. After silently praying after burning incense, these offerings became food for them to stay up late. The medicinal value of the five sons is high. The longan has appetite Qi, nourishing blood and strengthening the spleen, nourishing the nerves and tonifying the nerves, and replenishing long-term wisdom. The jujube is sweet, warm, and can nourish the body and nourish blood. The hazelnut has the reputation of “the king of nutsâ€. "Bao Materia Medica," said it "mainly benefits strength, wide stomach, no hunger, hiking"; peanuts nourish replenishment, contribute to longevity, so folk also known as "longevity fruit"; seeds according to "Compendium of Materia Medica" and the major Chinese medicine dictionary records, with Qingfei Huayu, laxative and other effects.
The Chinese Valentine's Day festival also needs to eat "smart fruit", and "Tokyo Dream Hualu" is called "laugh ridiculous" and "fruit and fruit pattern." The main ingredient of Qiaoguo is wheat noodles. Sweet wheat, cool, there is nourishing the mind, Qi and heat, get rid of irritability and thirst, and five internal organs, regulating the meridians, the effectiveness of urine.
Use gentlemen and pomegranates to fight pests
Legend has it that in the first year of the Northern Song Dynasty Jingyou, the plague epidemic in the south of Anhui Province, people suffered from omnivorous diseases, thin yellow muscle and thin, the famous doctor Wu Xi Tanabata day advocated everyone to eat so that the gentleman, pomegranate deworming, many people have a significant effect after eating. After Wu Xi was honored as a "professor of the road" and "a real wizard" by the people of Taiwan and Taiwan, he has never been far away. This also formed a kind of festivals and customs so far. The gentleman is a well-known anthelmintic, "Compendium of Materia Medica," said it "wealthy temperatures, both to kill insects, but also benefit the spleen and stomach, so they can gather heat and stop diarrhea, for children with various diseases to medicine." The pomegranate peel contains alkaline substances and has insect repellent effect. The fruit is rich in nutrients, which can improve the stomach, increase appetite, and prolong life; the pomegranate flower has hemostatic function, and it uses the pomegranate flower water to wash the eyes, as well as the function of the eyesight.
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