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Realgar wine
Traditional Chinese
雄黃酒
Simplified Chinese
雄黄酒
Literal meaning
yang-yellow wine
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
xiónghuáng jiǔ
Realgar wine or Xionghuang wine (Chinese: Chinese: 雄黃酒) is a Chinese alcoholic drink that consists of huangjiu ("yellow wine") dosed with powdered realgar, a yellow-orange arsenic sulfide mineral (As4S4). It is traditionally consumed as part of the Dragon Boat Festival at the height of summer.
Realgarwine or Xionghuang wine (Chinese: Chinese: 雄黃酒) is a Chinese alcoholic drink that consists of huangjiu ("yellow wine") dosed with powdered realgar...
Realgar (/riˈælɡɑːr, -ɡər/ ree-AL-gar, -gər), also known as ″arsenic blende″, ″ruby sulphur″ or ″ruby of arsenic″, is an arsenic sulfide mineral with...
[citation needed] Realgarwine or Xionghuang wine is a Chinese alcoholic drink that is made from Chinese liquor dosed with powdered realgar, a yellow-orange...
believed that they could protect themselves on this day was by drinking realgarwine which contains arsenic sulfide, another way to protect themselves on...
After receiving advice from Fahai, Xu Xian convinced Bai Suzhen to drink realgarwine during the Dragon Boat Festival. This caused Bai Suzhen to reveal her...
"probably had hallucinogenic and toxic mushrooms". In the present day, realgarwine is traditionally consumed as part of the Dragon Boat Festival. The apparent...
stannous and stannic chlorides, with alkali. Used for glass coloring Realgar – arsenic disulfide, an ore of arsenic. Regulus of antimony Resin of copper...
organic derivatives have nitrogen in the oxidation state of −1. Similarly, realgar has arsenic–arsenic bonds, so the arsenic's oxidation state is +II. A corresponding...
bright-colored girdles a cubit wide; storax, sweet clover, flint glass, realgar, antimony, gold and silver coin, on which there is a profit when exchanged...
textiles, sulfide of antimony, copper, tin, lead, coral, raw glass, wine, realgar and orpiment. The locations of unearthed coin-hoards from Pattanam suggest...
elixirs, often using toxic elements like cinnabar, lead, mercury, and realgar, as well as ritual and purificatory practices. After this point, Taoism...
translates xiónghuáng 雄黃 "realgar; red orpiment"—Compare Richard Strassberg's translation, "On the mountain’s heights is much green realgar, the finest quality...
operations, such as the preparation of chemical elixirs, made from cinnabar, realgar, and other substances generally involving mercury, sulfur, lead, and arsenic...
bright-colored girdles a cubit wide; storax, sweet clover, flint glass, realgar, antimony, gold and silver coin, on which there is a profit when exchanged...
Tanais were buried along with weapons as well as with pieces of chalk and realgar which functioned as symbols of fire, while their graves were accompanied...
involve melting mercury and lead in a special crucible – made from heating realgar, earthworm excreta, and cinnabar inside iron and copper tubes – in order...
Prince of the Han State. He appears quite carefree and is often seen drinking wine in the company of female entertainers. He has no martial arts skills, however...
(below) that also describes smelting the "five minerals" (identified as realgar, cinnabar, orpiment, alum, and laminar malachite) on the bingwu day of...
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