According to a widely accepted view of the academic world, human history is millions of years old. As the oldest civilization in the world, Chinese civilization has a history of about 4700 years. Mosquitoes are clearly much older than humans, dating back hundreds of millions of years. Therefore, in the ancients "six white six black twelve chess, the two sides of the game", the mosquito "buzzing" sound has accompanied around. So in the absence of modern mosquito repellent in ancient times, the ancient Chinese wisdom is how to drive mosquitoes, mosquitoes?
To combat mosquitoes, one must first understand their habits. For the destructive force of the mosquito, the zhuangzi is awake at night after mosquito bites, then write "mosquito 噆 skin, all night not mei yi". Fu xuan, a native of the jin dynasty, wrote in verse about whipping up the mosquitoes, "eating the skin and body for whipping up the hunger, whipping the peasants into the south China acre, and whipping the women workers into the chinchiness." As for the habits of mosquitoes, tang dynasty poet liu yuxi summed it up perfectly. Dew drips drips the moon to go up, the benefit hot face person is unable to meet." The ancient people knew well about mosquitoes. Next, this article introduces several ancient mosquito repellent methods.

Smoked drive midge

Fumigation is one of the most commonly used mosquito repellent methods in ancient China. Lu you, a poet of the song dynasty, wrote, "it is strange that so many mosquitoes live in the land of ze. He could not lift a fan, but he took a piece of the burnt offering." The poem says burning wormwood can keep mosquitoes away. Song dynasty "gewu crude talk" wrote, "Dragon Boat Festival, storage duckweed, Yin gan, realgar, for paper wrapped incense, burning, to remove mosquitoes. This is the earliest mosquito coil incense in the world. Similarly, fang xiaoru of the Ming dynasty recorded in his book "mosquito pair" that "a boy plucking the tarragebrush and setting the fire on the end would drive out the mosquitoes by driving the smoke away from the bed", which more specifically described the process of driving away mosquitoes by smoking.

Ancient mosquito nets were used to repel mosquitoes
Strictly speaking, mosquito nets in ancient times known as 帟, Wo, curtain, ribbon, etc. Mosquito nets have a long history in China. The net focuses on defense, and its skills fit the Chinese philosophy of taking retreat as advance and taking defense as attack. During the spring and autumn period, duke huan of qi kept mosquitoes out of his mind by means of a special brand called cuisha. In the book of songs there is a description of the head count in the head count count and the head count count in the head count. Mosquito nets were an absolute weapon used by ancient Chinese people to fight mosquitoes, whether they were nobles or poor peasants. The Chinese continue the tradition of using mosquito nets to repel mosquitoes. During the 2016 Rio Olympics, the mosquito nets used by Chinese girls were hailed as magical by foreign athletes, and at one point were sold for $400 by amazon.com.

Mosquito killer lamp

Mosquito lamp? Yes, you heard me right. In ancient China, there were mosquito lamps which could kill mosquitoes. There is a description of this "mosquito lamp" in jin ping mei. The mosquito lamp unearthed so far is believed to have appeared in the Ming dynasty. The lamp body is like a gourd, and the side of the lamp is equipped with a small window shaped like a bell mouth. When the lamp is ignited, the air flows into the lamp quickly from the small window with a bell mouth, and mosquitoes will be sucked into the lamp by this hot air stream to achieve the purpose of eliminating mosquitoes.
In addition to the above three methods, ancient Chinese people also use mosquito repellent grass, hanging sachet, mosquito repellent grass, mosquito tank and other methods for mosquito repellent. Ancient people mainly used natural methods to drive mosquitoes. Shandong yukang brand mosquito repellent products from the ancient herbal secret recipe, the use of natural extracts, mosquitoes do not kill mosquitoes, mosquitoes do not harm the body.