The method of making the mugwort scented capsule

Mugwort scented sachet is made as follows:

1, draw a rectangle of the required size (width 1:length 2) on the cloth block and then reduce it.

2, after sewing, fold and overlap the two red dots, sew half, leaving half of the opening for turning the cloth.

3. Use your fingertips to push one corner of the cloth out of the reserved opening, then pull it all the way out and adjust the shape of the pyramid, and organize the flap.

4: Fill the cloth bag with prepared mugwort from the reserved opening, stuffing it solidly so that the shape of the pinch will look better.

5, the prepared rope folded in half and tie a knot, the knot will be hidden in the top of the mugwort bag, sewing can be.

Scented sachet, also called incense bag, is a folk embroidery craft created by ancient Chinese working women. It is a product of the ancient Chinese farming culture marked by male cultivation and female weaving, and is a remnant and regeneration of the traditional Chinese culture that has survived for more than a thousand years and has not been extinguished.

The earliest known scented bag is called "Rongqi", Qu Yuan's "Li Sao" in "Hu Jiangli and Pai Zhi Ruoxi, sewing autumn orchids to wear", the spice is Pai Zhi, autumn orchids. In the Ming Dynasty still have the name of the smell. Traditional Chinese scented sachets are made of silk cloth, filled with andrographis, lavender, mugwort and other spices. It is said that the scented bag can avoid evil spirits, the Dragon Boat Festival will be hung with scented bags.

It is embroidered with colorful silk thread on the colorful silk with a variety of connotations of ancient magical, profound patterns and decorations, sewn into different shapes and sizes of small embroidered sacs, containing a variety of strong aromatic smell of Chinese herbs developed fine powder, for festivals and festivals, practical and ornamental ornaments to play with.

Inheritance of the significance of the bag:

Some places there are new brides give friends and relatives of the custom of the bag, the people believe that the bride with the joy of her hand-made bag, better able to expel the evil spirits and detoxification, so in the first year of her marriage at the Dragon Boat Festival, the new bride must be sewn bag sent to friends and relatives, this send, to say the least, to send one to two hundred, in addition to sending to friends and relatives, of course, more than half of them. Giving friends and relatives, of course, most of them are still given to the children to wear, which is from the previous generation of the next generation of care.

As for the lover's incense contains meaning is more far-reaching, a needle and a thread all contain infinite tenderness. In the past, the women in the children's lover to go away, will sew incense bag let them take on the body, on the one hand, blessing them to travel safe, on the other hand is also reminding them, home, there are people leaning on the door to wait, should come back soon. This kind of cozy custom is less common in modern times.