What holiday custom is it to hang a scented bag?

Hanging scented bags is a traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Duanwu Festival children wear scented sachets, not only to ward off evil spirits to drive away the plague, but also to have a lapel head embellishment of the wind. Scented bag inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then the five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, exquisite and eye-catching.

Perfumed scented sachet, is one of the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. It is usually filled with some aromatic herbs, which have the function of clearing the scent and repelling insects.

Origin

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

Among all the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, there is nothing more static, beautiful and cozy than making and wearing scented buns. Previously, the level of medicine is not developed, people will have a bactericidal effect of xionghuang, mugwort, calamus research into powder, wrapped in cloth to wear on the chest, the use of the smell it emits to dispel the summer mosquitoes.