Wearing sachets is one of the traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival.
Children wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to mean to ward off evil spirits and plague. Actually, it is used to decorate the inner head. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar, and fragrant medicine. It is wrapped in silk, and the fragrance is overflowing. Then it is tied into a rope with five-color silk threads, and made into various shapes of strings, which are small and lovely. In some cities in southern China, young men and women also use sachets to express their deep love.
Sachet, also called sachet, sachet, wallet, etc. Five-color silk thread is wound on the sachet, sewn with rags and filled with spices (made from Chinese herbal medicines such as Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Scutellariae Radix, Rhizoma Sparganii, Rhizoma Kaempferiae, Gan Song and Rhizoma Kaempferiae). Wear it on your chest. It smells good. ? Chen Shiliang's Chronicle of Years Old quoted Miscellanies of Years Old as saying that "the Dragon Boat Festival is red and white, like a bag, with colored lines running through it, like a flower." Another kind of "mussel powder bell": "put mussel powder in silk for five days, add cotton to it, and count pearls." Let the children take it to absorb sweat. " The contents of these carry-on bags have changed several times, from sweat-absorbing mussel powder, amulets to ward off evil spirits, copper coins and realgar powder to sachets filled with spices, and they have become increasingly exquisite and become a unique Han folk art of the Dragon Boat Festival. Wearing sachets is very particular.
Some places in the south of the Yangtze River have the custom of "wearing sachets", which contain spices and give them to lovers to show their loyalty. In order to prevent diseases and keep fit, the elderly generally like to wear plum blossoms, chrysanthemums, peaches, apples, lotus flowers, dolls riding fish, dolls holding cocks, double lotus flowers and other shapes, symbolizing birds and flowers, all the best, loving each other and family harmony. Children like birds and animals, such as tigers and leopards; Monkeys, cockfights, etc. Young people are most particular about wearing sachets. If they are lovers in love, affectionate girls will carefully make one or two sachets with their own characteristics a long time ago in order to meet their lovers before the festival. The young man wore a sachet from his sweetheart, which naturally aroused the discussion of men and women around him and praised the ingenuity of the young man's object.
The so-called sachet is made of fragrant Chinese herbal medicines such as Rhizoma Atractylodis, Herba Agastaches, Evodia rutaecarpa, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Cortex Cinnamomi, Fructus Amomi, Realgar, Borneolum Syntheticum and Camphor. Powder, packed in a special cloth bag, wrapped in silk, and then buckled into a string with five-color silk thread, with different shapes, exquisite and lovely, worn on the chest and waist. Chinese herbal medicines selected for sachets have the effects of expelling wind and cold, invigorating spleen and regulating stomach, regulating qi and relieving pain, and dredging channels and nine orifices, and most of them contain volatile oil, with pure and lasting fragrance. Most of the effective components of Chinese herbal medicine have different degrees of inhibition or killing effects on various bacteria, viruses and molds, thus playing the role of seeking good fortune and avoiding evil and expelling plague. Studies have shown that these aromatic substances enter the human body through the respiratory tract, which can excite the nervous system, stimulate the human immune system, promote the production of antibodies, inhibit the growth of various pathogenic bacteria, and improve the human body's disease resistance. At the same time, after the medicinal molecules are absorbed by the human body, they can also promote the activity of digestive glands and increase secretion, thus improving the activity of digestive enzymes and enhancing appetite. Often put the sachet in your pocket and beside your pillow to prevent the occurrence of infectious diseases such as influenza, diphtheria, chickenpox, meningitis and measles.
Need to remind everyone that the use of sachets should be based on physical fitness, and pregnant women should use them with caution; Pay attention to waterproof and moistureproof. If rash and itching occur after skin contact, please take off the sachet immediately; The formula of sachet can be prepared in Chinese medicine department of large and medium-sized pharmacies and hospitals.