Strange custom of swallowing sesame flowers on Dragon Boat Festival

(Baonghean.vn) - At noon on the Doan Ngo Festival, many people in Yen Thanh district go to pick sesame flowers to swallow to prevent eye diseases.

Swallowing sesame flowers to prevent eye disease is done by people right at the place where they pick the flowers, they look up at the sun while swallowing.

For the medicine to be effective, men must swallow exactly 7 flowers, women 9 flowers to avoid eye diseases all year round. Therefore, in the middle of a scorching summer afternoon, many people still look for this flower to eat to prevent diseases.

Swallowing sesame flowers on the 5th of May is a folk remedy.

Swallowing sesame buds without drinking water is not easy.

Children also believe in the effectiveness of the medicine.

Mrs. Nguyen Thi Tung (70 years old) in Hamlet 5, Trung Thanh Commune said: “The custom of swallowing sesame flowers on Tet holiday to kill insects has existed since ancient times. My grandparents taught me this since I was little. I have never had eye pain before, so I really believe in the effectiveness of this medicine. Therefore, every time the Doan Ngo festival comes, my family and I go out to find sesame flowers.”

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