Sargassum pallidum Baba

　　Sargassum pallidum Baba is Tujia traditional snacks. The annual Lunar New Year in March the third Tujia village, each and every family Xing eat sagebrush Baba, Tujia people own wormwood Festival.

　　Tujia copycat Shangaolin is close, the viper is more, often hurts. As the Snake Mountain wounding, ancestors developed a mugwort as main ingredients, mix with sweet food, into the hole and let the snakes eat snakes, snakes eat will die, this custom is called rolling snake eyes. At the same time, also made of Ba sentence warning people: " in March three, Snake Mountain, sagebrush Baba rolling snake eyes. " In addition, people use Artemisia leaf mix glutinous rice powder made Baba, in March the third day to eat. Allegedly, had in March three in Hong Baba, into the mountains to work, work out, will suffer no snake bites, and may you be safe throughout the journey, everything is auspicious. This custom of Tujia people shows a reflection of psychology and ancient religious belief, but also of Tujia people pray and wish.

　　In March three eat sagebrush Baba custom has spread so far. From the mountain in a mugwort back, bundled hanging on the top, there is evil ". We often eat sagebrush Baba, and do not moxa, Artemisia herbs, bitter, spicy. Artemisia leaf Compositae, variety, there are common mugwort, white Artemisia Artemisia frigida, Baba, meters, iron Xin Artemisia, Tonghao, Artemisia, hair. Most of these Artemisia leaf medicinal, their common characteristics, has the hemostatic effect of. Wormwood stop nosebleed, when I often nosebleeds, drop into Fangqianwuhou pulled some wormwood leaf, knead into pellets into the nostrils, for a minute, special effects. Iron Xin Artemisia stop traumatic bleeding, mugwort for dysfunctional uterine bleeding and dysmenorrhea. Do with mugwort Artemisia leaf Baba is cognate - white artemisia.

　　White Artemisia, stems with groove, densely gray-white woolly, basal leaves three pinnatipartite or lobed, cauline leaves five to seven irregular crack, adaxially dark green, abaxially gray-white tomentose. The side of the field, the two most common students. Artemisia sieversiana gentle temperament, sweet and delicious, fragrant. Shape and mugwort is similar to, but not as mugwort then make concerted efforts, bent upward, into piece into piece of hold together. Artemisia sieversiana some solitary rambling, pay no heed to the stand aloof from worldly success, get yourself laugh and grow fat, thick bushy dwarf piers, tender, making it a Tujia people making one of the main components of Sargassum pallidum baba.