Why do you wear cinnabar sachets on Dragon Boat Festival?

Blood stone sang: "The millet in the bag is divided into corners, the colored silk is cut into velvet ropes, and the calamus is spread all over the place, at the beginning of May every year. The host is kind and loyal and loves the scene. When you play with Shanjia, you will have three or four Artemisia annua flowers. " The word "sweet millet" refers to sachets, and "early May every year" refers to the Dragon Boat Festival. Since ancient times, there have been many customs in China during the Dragon Boat Festival, and wearing sachets is one of them. A sachet refers to a bag containing drugs or spices, which can ward off evil spirits. There are different names in different places, such as sachet, embroidered sachet, sachet, sachet bag, mugwort bag, realgar bag, cinnabar bag and so on. There is an old legend about the origin of sachets. According to legend, in ancient times, many monsters came out to hurt people, but these ghosts came out at certain times and seasons, some in the daytime, some at night, some in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and some in July and a half. Cow ghost at night, snake god during the day, cow ghost crow back to the underworld at night, viper opened his eyes at noon, new ghost appeared in Qingming Festival, and old ghost appeared in July and a half. Every year at noon on May 5th, at this time, all the monsters will come out for activities. This hour is "May 3rd", that is, May 5th and noon (noon sounds like five o'clock), which is the devil's hour. Therefore, the ancients also called this festival "Heavy Five Festivals" and "Five Poisons Day". Legend has it that it was difficult for the ancients to avoid this time. If they can avoid it, they will be safe, otherwise they will be killed by ghosts. At this time, Guanyin Bodhisattva, who helped the poor and needy, gave people a dream, saying that monsters are most afraid of metal and fragrance. As long as you bring metal and fragrance, you can avoid the harm of monsters. People spread from one word to another, and soon spread the story of Guanyin Bodhisattva saving lives through dreams. At noon that day, they wore all kinds of metals and perfumes to ward off evil spirits. This practice, often called "suppressing noon", proved to be safe. From then on, people will wear things like metal and perfume on this day every year. After a long time, it gradually developed into today's sachet. Medically speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival is in early summer, the climate is hot and dry, insects multiply and diseases are easy to spread. Therefore, it is really necessary to clean the courtyard and thoroughly clean up the breeding grounds of mosquitoes and flies at this time. There are many folk customs in the Dragon Boat Festival, such as drinking realgar wine, wearing cinnabar sachets, eating garlic, painting realgar wine on children's nostrils and ear holes, and hanging calamus and mugwort leaves on doors. These customs have the function of avoiding epidemics and preventing diseases. In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, sachets became popular decorations in the Dragon Boat Festival. There are different things in the sachet, some are filled with drugs such as cinnabar and realgar, and some are filled with spices such as agarwood. In the Wanli period, Zhejiang Xinchang County Chronicle said, "Pei," in some areas, the sachet was filled with cinnabar (also an ancient medicine to ward off evil spirits), so it was called "cinnabar bag". For example, "Liao Zhou Zhi" in Yongzheng period of Qing Dynasty said: "Tie five silks and wear cinnabar bags." . It is said that wearing cinnabar sachets on Dragon Boat Festival can ward off evil spirits and plague. Children wear cinnabar sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which can not only ward off evil spirits and plagues, but also be used as decorations for inner heads. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, which is wrapped in silk and fragrant, and then tied into ropes of various shapes with five-color silk threads to form a string, which is exquisite and eye-catching, and has built a series of auspicious and wishful landscapes in the hearts of children. Dragon Boat Festival is coming, green and thin, and some immature fruits are gradually maturing, and the special one will be the fragrant sachet with strong feelings of cinnabar. Wearing a cinnabar sachet, the red heart is fragrant. Red, which will never disappear, evokes simple and mysterious memories, dispels evil spirits and ghosts, and brings happiness and auspiciousness to the world.