| 英文摘要: |
The mosquito repellent incene was invented by the Chinese in Song dynasty, based on the traditional habitude of burning joss sticks and ceremony of sanitation in dragon boat festival, as well as the knowledge about the behavior of mosquito. The incene was called “mosquito smoke” or “mosquito drug”. It was made up of argy wormwood and arsenic sulphide as well as duckweed mainly,shape liked stick, and produced in special workshops. The production of the mosquito repellent incene was developed between Ming and Qing dynasty, more and more materials were used to its production, including asafetida, notopterygium, wallich ligusticum, sulphur， camphor, and tobacco. Its types tended to become more varied. The composition of its materials aroused the interest of western scholars in the 1850s. |
