Hand-sewn sachet course

The process of sewing sachets by hand is to prepare cloth, spices, red rope, scissors and needle and thread. Cut two pieces of cloth with the same shape from the cloth with scissors. Overlap the two pieces of cloth, with the back facing outwards, and sew the two sides and the lower part with a needle and thread, leaving only the upper outlet unstitched. Put spices on the sewn cloth, which can be aromatic spices such as rose or mint, or traditional Chinese medicine spices such as Folium Artemisiae Argyi and Rhizoma Atractylodis, so as to smell and repel insects.

Turn the cloth with spices inside upside down, and the spices will be filled inside, or turn the cloth bag upside down before filling the spices. After packing the spices, put the red rope through the exit, put both pieces on, and tie a knot at both ends of the rope. Tighten the rope from both sides of the sachet, and a handmade sachet is finished.

This kind of sachet is also called flannel, box, box, Xiang Ying and Pei Wei. Today is called purse, playing with goods and shorting. It is a folk embroidery handicraft created by working women in ancient China. It is the product of China ancient farming culture marked by men plowing and women weaving, and it is the remains and regeneration of China traditional culture that has lived for thousands of years.

The sachet was originally called "smelly". In Qu Yuan's Lisao, there is "Hujiang Powder, Bi, which Qiu Lan thinks is admirable". At that time, the spices were Bizhi and Qiu Lan. In the Ming dynasty, there were still smelly names. Traditional sachets in China are mostly made of silk and filled with realgar, smoked grass, mugwort and other spices. It is said that sachets can ward off evil spirits, so they will be hung on the Dragon Boat Festival. In 2008, it was selected into the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage expansion projects.