China folk traditional sachet

Sachet is a folk culture in China!

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional folk program in China. Folk activities such as drinking realgar wine, eating zongzi a

Sachet is a folk culture in China!

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional folk program in China. Folk activities such as drinking realgar wine, eating zongzi and rowing dragon boats are all over China. But in Qingyang, the birthplace of the Chinese nation, besides inserting mugwort leaves, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine, the more intense atmosphere is to dress up dolls. "Dragon Boat Festival in May, face-to-face meeting on August 15th". Dozens of days before the Dragon Boat Festival, women are the busiest, wrapping zongzi with five-color thread, rubbing flower ropes and embroidering sachets. On the Dragon Boat Festival, Qingyang is a world of colorful sachets, cities and villages. It is full of colors and smells, and people are dressing up their children from beginning to end. The strong atmosphere of Dragon Boat Festival gives people an ancient, quaint and magical feeling.

What can sachets do?

In ancient times, it was called "sachet", also known as "wearing veil", "releasing odor", "sachet" and "purse". In some places, there is a custom that the bride gives sachets to her relatives and friends. People in China believe that the bride is happy, and the sachet made by hand can better ward off evil spirits and detoxify. Therefore, on the Dragon Boat Festival in the first year of marriage, the bride must sew sachets and give them to her relatives and friends.

The fragrance for your lover has a deeper meaning, and every stitch and thread contains infinite tenderness. In the past, women would sew sachets for their children and lovers and take them with them when they went out on long trips. On the one hand, they wish them a safe journey; On the other hand, they are reminding them that someone in their hometown is waiting at the door and should come back as soon as possible.

These two customs gradually merged into one, and evolved into a small cloth bag filled with wormwood, realgar and sandalwood powder and mixed spices, which was hung by children to prevent the intrusion of poisonous insects, and had the function of removing poison and evil spirits, and became a symbol of life-saving and good luck. In modern society, silicon bath essence and some Chinese herbal medicines are also used to remove the odor in cars or refrigerators.

How to wear a sachet?

Every Dragon Boat Festival, especially women and children, should wear sachets. Tracing back to the origin of sachets, as early as the pre-Qin period, women wore ornaments made of five threads on their heads. It developed into a sachet in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and in the Tang Dynasty, a fragrant pill filled with spices appeared.

During and after the Dragon Boat Festival, the climate is hot, mosquitoes and flies fly, poisonous gas rises, and epidemics germinate. The ancients believed that people who ate whole grains suffered from various diseases, and the diseases entered through the mouth, mostly due to evil and miscellaneous gas, which was inhaled through the nose and mouth. In the long-term struggle against various diseases, people found that drinking realgar wine and wearing sachets can exorcise evil spirits and detoxify, which has its medical principles.