What is the significance of carrying sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival?

The sachet, also called sachet and flower pouch, is also called purse, which is wrapped with silk thread. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the ancients often put drugs or their coarse powder in special bags, put them in their chests, waists or close-fitting pockets, or hang them on bed curtains or car rafters to prevent and treat certain diseases.

Sachets are not only exquisite silk products, but also made of precious metals such as gold and silver. Generally made into round, square, oval, Japanese horn, gourd shape, pomegranate shape, peach shape, waist shape, square shape and so on. There is a silk ribbon at the top that is easy to hang, and a colorful lace or jewelry tassel with a hundred knots at the bottom, which is full of harmony and contains good wishes.

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, May Festival and Five-Day Festival. "Local Customs" said: "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival. End, start. " There are three five days in a month, and the first five days are the Dragon Boat Festival. In China, during the Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs such as eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, drinking realgar wine, hanging mugwort leaves and calamus, hanging purses and tying colorful silk thread. People think that May is the time when the five poisons (scorpion, snake, centipede, gecko and toad) appear, and ghosts will also run rampant, which will bring diseases and disasters to people, especially children with weak resistance. Therefore, it is necessary to wear sachets to eliminate disasters and prevent drugs on the Dragon Boat Festival in May.