Historically, every summer, the mosquito has been harassed human, so, in the technology behind the ancient times, ancient people how to avoid mosquito bites?

Zhuangzi said: "midge fly 豽 skin, the evening not mei yi." Mosquito bite at the old man could not sleep a night. Northern song dynasty ouyang xiu in the hate mosquitoes, said: "although the helpless, but a little difficult to gas." In order to prevent the mosquitoes, the ancients often at home to raise some anti-mosquito plants, common drive midge grass, eat Chinese caterpillar fungus, ageratum, violet, lavender, etc., these flowers and plants not only can drive midge, also can purify the air.

The southern song dynasty poet lu you have about the mosquito verse: "a lot so many mosquitoes, and by night to urge is strange. Lift fan can't, take a piece of burnt ai." The poem describes the incomplete mosquito with a fan, so we have to choose tsao smoked mosquitoes. Burning moxa drive midge grass is very commonly used in private. During the Dragon Boat Festival, people except in the doorway with wormwood, and often rub realgar wine in the body, prevent mosquito bites.

The perfume pouch will be hung is one of the ancient people living habits, many sweet bursa of medicinal materials also have mosquito repellent effect, such as ageratum, mint and anise, fennel, etc., this is equivalent to the "wind" worn on the body. Sweet bursa sachets, refreshing bright eye, let a person feel comfortable, to drive the flies away, also became literati, fashion ornaments.

Summer and fall mosquitoes, people invented the nets and mosquito coil incense. During the spring and autumn period, duke had "seeing" of emerald green yarn, the mosquito can't go in. Nets today is still a lot of people drive midge preferred. Ancient mosquito-repellent incense probably related to burn incense sacrifice custom, the invention of tech notes of song dynasty "coarse make informed decisions about" records: "Dragon Boat Festival, the control store duckweed, air-dried, realgar, paper bound incense, burn them to eliminate mosquitoes." This is one of the earlier "mosquito-repellent incense" should be.

The ancients mosquito avoidance method is varied, they also developed a "mosquito killer", is to prepare a water and stone vats, raise some frogs in the cylinder, the mosquitoes like shade, a fly in the cylinder is the frog and the mouth of Chinese food, it serves to show the wisdom of the elders, avoid mosquitoes so low carbon environmental protection.