What's the significance of sending sachets on Dragon Boat Festival?

Significance of sending sachets on Dragon Boat Festival;

1, children wear sachets during the Dragon Boat Festival, which not only means to ward off evil spirits and drive away epidemics, but also has the wind of adorning their heads. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, and the fragrance is overflowing, and then tied into a rope with five-color silk thread to make a string of different shapes, exquisite and eye-catching.

As early as 2000 years ago, some people in China wore sachets to ward off evil spirits and ensure their health. Many cities and villages still have the custom of bringing sachets to children.

3. Wearing sachets is a folk custom, but it is also a way to prevent the plague. When infectious diseases began to rise in summer, in order to ensure children's health, the ancients made Chinese medicine into sachets and tied them on children's skirts and shoulders.

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Related legends

1. In the rural areas of Shanxi, children's sachets, longevity thread and mugwort leaves should be made during the Dragon Boat Festival, regardless of their prime of life. Why can a small sachet touch people's hearts like this? It will last for thousands of years.

2. Legend has it that in ancient times, various pests and plagues seriously threatened people every April and May, and the Jade Emperor sent immortals to visit the people to control the plagues.

The immortals found that they all came from all corners of the country and had different ideas. Some people are good people, others are bad people, so they punish evil and promote good. They took out five-color sachets and said to the kind people, "Every year on the fifth day of May, you wear them with your children." Wear sachets, insert mugwort leaves on the door, drive away all plagues, and be auspicious and bright. "Strangely, since then, all adults and children with fragrant bags have run away when they see pests, while the wicked without fragrant bags are inevitably poisoned by pests and epidemics.

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