The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival scented bag?

Tracing the origin of the scented bag, as early as in the pre-Qin era, women wore ornaments made of five threads on their heads, and in the period of the North and South Dynasties, it was developed into a scented bag, and in the Tang Dynasty, there appeared a ball of incense filled with spices. The main raw materials of the incense bag are xionghuang, mugwort and smoked grass, etc. Its role was deified in ancient times, just like the red bib of little Nezha in "The Goddess of the Seals", which has the effect of fighting evil and winning.

May is commonly known as the poisonous month, and in the Jing Chu chronicles, but also recorded every Dragon Boat Festival this day, to wormwood cut into the shape of a tiger, or cut cloth made into a small tiger, to avoid some poisonous things, in addition to the customs of the Tong recorded above, with five-color thread tied on the arm of a child, can make him live a long life, called it a long life wisp.

Slowly these two customs gradually merged into one, evolved into a five-color thread tied with a full of wormwood, andrographis and sandalwood powder, mixed with spices of the small bag to the child hanging, to prevent poisonous insects from infesting the function of dispelling poisonous evil spirits, and become a symbol of life-saving good luck. Thus the status of the incense bag was established.

Inheritance of the significance of the bag:

1, in the past, the women in the children of the lover to go out of town, will be sewn to let them take on the body, on the one hand, blessing them safe travel, on the other hand, is also to remind them of their hometown, there are people leaning on the door to wait for the door, they should come back as soon as possible.

2, nowadays, medicine is developed, the function of relying on scented bags to expel evil and avoid poison has disappeared, and then in the industrial and commercial society, people's lives are in a tense pace, and there are more and more working women. Therefore, every year around the Dragon Boat Festival, there will be a large number of production of incense packets sold on the market, although the pattern is also embroidered quite beautiful, for people to live and bring the interest of the warmth of which.

Above content reference: People's Daily - Dragon Boat Festival to the children tied colorful rope wearing incense packets ? Do you know the origin?