Science in it, too: Some festival traditions seem on the surface to be nothing more than voodoo. Hanging up artemisia and drinking realgar wine on the Dragon Boat Festival, for instance, arose as apotropaic practices to ward off evil spirits that the ancients believed were apt to prey on people and cause illness during a time they called "poison month."
有些節慶表面看來只是巫術行為，例如端午節要掛艾草、飲雄黃酒，是因為古人發覺端午節時，人們特別容易生病，相信是被邪魔所侵，於是稱之為毒月，而有這些辟邪儀式。