Taboos on the Dragon Boat Festival's Five Poisonous Days. What do the Five Poisonous Days and Five Yellows refer to?

Taboos on the Dragon Boat Festival's Five Poisonous Days. What do the Five Poisonous Days and Five Yellows refer to?
The Dragon Boat Festival is known as one of the four major traditional festivals of the Chinese folk along with the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival. Taboos on the Dragon Boat Festival's Five Poisonous Days. What do the Five Poisonous Days and Five Yellows refer to? The fifth month of the lunar calendar is midsummer. The lotus breeze delivers fragrance, the bamboo dew drops make clear sounds, and the scenery is different from any other season. Please continue to pay attention to Mr. Shui Mo's website for more content related to the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 2019!

Taboos on the Dragon Boat Festival Five Poison Days

Lunar calendar: May 5, 2019
Gregorian calendar: Friday, June 7, 2019 Gemini
[Today's Old Almanac is suitable] [Do not use it for important events on Yang Gong's taboo day]
Pray for blessings, get married, set up the bed, build the stove, accept the bride price, recruit a son-in-law, fast and offer sacrifices, pray for offspring, seek wealth, build meridians, build houses, dig wells, plant, raise beams and erect pillars, capture
[Today's taboos in the old almanac] [Do not use Yang Gong's taboo days for important events]
Open the market, establish securities, collect money, ship goods, collect livestock, move into new homes, separate, have a fire, travel, break ground, hold funerals, bury, place incense, open positions
According to the almanac, today is Yang Gong's death anniversary, and all activities are unsuitable, so almost all happy events should be avoided.

What do the five poisons and five yellows of the Dragon Boat Festival mean?

Five Poisonous Creatures: The "Five Poisonous Creatures" in folk legends are five animals, namely snake, scorpion, centipede, gecko, and toad.
May is considered the "poisonous month" and the "evil month". Because the weather is getting hotter and the rain is increasing at this time, people are very likely to get sick, and many insects in nature are also out and about. People set the fifth day of May as the day to drive away plague and poisonous insects.
Five yellows: The five yellows refer to eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted duck eggs and realgar wine.
There is a saying about the Dragon Boat Festival: "May 5th, celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with five yellows and three whites." May is also known as the five yellows month, so people have to eat the five yellows on the Dragon Boat Festival: realgar wine, yellow croaker, cucumber, yellow eel and salted duck egg yolk; they also have to eat wild rice stem, salted duck egg white and boiled meat. In addition, you also have to eat "one red", which refers to sweat vegetable (the soup turns red after being fried with garlic).
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