Realgar wine, or xionghuangjiu, is a Chinese alcoholic drink consisting of fermented cereals and powdered realgar.

雄黄酒是种中国酒，由发酵的谷物和雄黄粉酿制而成。

There is an old saying: 'Drinking realgar wine drives diseases and evils away! '

喝雄黄酒能够驱魔辟邪。

People would hang mugwart and calamus, drink wealgar wine, and hang up icons of a mythical guardian.

人们艾蒿和菖蒲，饮雄黄酒，带护身符。

People break out the realgar wine, a Chinese cereal wine mixed with powdered realgar (an arsenic sulfide mineral).

人们拿出雄黄酒，这是种混合了雄黄粉（种硫化砷矿物）的中国谷物酒。

Belladonna and red arsenic are deadly poisons.

【poison】茄和雄黄是致命的毒物。

He told Xu Xian to serve his wife realgar wine on the 5th day of the 5th month, when demons’ powers are weakest.

他吩咐许仙在五月初五这天，妖魔最弱的时候， 用雄黄酒服侍他的妻子。

At the same time, people from some regions in China also wear a perfume pouch, hang mugwort leaves on their doors and drink realgar wine to celebrate this festival.

同时，中国些地区的人们还佩戴香囊，在门上艾叶， 喝雄黄酒来庆祝这个节日。

In China, its traditions are directly linked to the legend of Qu Yuan-eating the dragon's offering, zongzi, drinking the spirit that killed the dragon, realgar wine, which actually contains trace amounts of arsenic, it was originally used as pesticide.

在中国，端午节庆的传统直接与屈原的传说连结－－吃龙的供品，粽子、喝杀死龙的烈酒，雄黄酒，而它其实含有微量的砒霜，原本是用来当作杀虫剂的。