The best recipe for spices in scented bags are andrographis, cinnabar, fumitory, moxa, etc. In addition, according to personal preference to add pellitory, magnolia, Angelica dahuricae, rhizoma ligustici, sandalwood, patchouli, Sichuan pepper, peppermint, frankincense, gui guan, yi zhi ren, scullcap, pai cao, licorice, gaobenthos, suhexiang, cangzhu, xingcheng, and other medicinal herbs.
Scented bag, also known as the smell, scented bag, scented bag, scented tassel, PeiDu, nowadays known as the purse, play goods,绌绌. It is a kind of folk embroidery crafts created by ancient Chinese working women. It is a product of the ancient Chinese farming culture marked by men plowing and women weaving, and it is the survival and regeneration of the traditional Chinese culture for more than a thousand years and the remaining threads have not been extinguished.
The sachet itself is actually just a cloth bag to wrap up the spices, but since all the ancient women had a good hand at sewing, the sachets became more and more exquisite and more and more beautiful. Especially when it is made with a single stitch, it carries a deeper meaning. If you give it as a gift, the warmth can not be replaced by a greeting card. Traditional Chinese scent bags are made of silk cloth and filled with spices such as xionghuang, smoked grass and mugwort leaves.
Cultural practices
Exorcism and prayers for good luck is the permanent theme of the culture of scented bags. And metaphorical symbols, objects are the distinctive artistic characteristics of the incense packet. The patterns and shapes of Qingyang incense packets are very elaborate, with rich meanings: tiger and lion symbolize the courage and might to get rid of evil and keep peace; double fish, double butterflies, dragons and other symbols of love between the two sexes, intercourse, fertility; lotus, lotus, peony, plum blossoms, etc., a metaphor for female chastity and sweetness; magpies with plums, flower picking bees metaphor for men; borrowing gourds, pomegranates and more seeds, hoping for more children and more blessings.
Wearing a scented bag is quite delicate. The elderly in order to prevent disease fitness, generally like to wear plum blossoms, chrysanthemums, peaches, apples, lotus, dolls riding a fish, dolls holding a rooster, double lotus and other shapes, symbolizing the birds and flowers, all the best, couples love, family harmony. Children like the birds and animals, such as tigers, leopards; monkeys on the yu, cockfighting to catch free and so on.
Young people to wear the most elaborate bag of incense, if it is a passionate lover, that sentimental girl early to elaborate one or two chic bag of incense, rushed to have a festival before the gift to their lover. The young man wearing a sweetheart to give the bag of incense, naturally, to cause the surrounding men and women's comments, straight to praise the object of the young man's dexterity.