The sachet of the Dragon Boat Festival is said to ward off evil spirits, and it is said to be auspicious. Legend has it that Quyuan was thrown into the river in the summer, and mosquitoes were flying everywhere. People were afraid that Quyuan's body would be bitten, so they lit it with wormwood to smoke the insects, and then some people built righteousness. Why not wrap sandalwood in cloth? Later, after people sewed sachets with needle and thread, they tied them with cloth ropes and hung them around their necks. Everyone tied them, and mosquitoes and dirt were afraid to get close to them. According to legend, making sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival became a traditional custom in China.

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, every household will celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, and among all the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, the most static beauty and warmth are the making and wearing of sachets. In the past, due to the underdeveloped medicine, people grinded the sterilized realgar, wormwood and calamus into powder, wrapped it in cloth and put it on their chests, and used its fragrance to keep insects and bacteria out of summer. This is the origin of sachets.

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The sachet has been described in some chapters of The Book of Songs, indicating that sachets existed as early as about 3000 years ago. "Book of Rites" says: "Five picks are embroidery." The sachet is embroidered with blue, red, yellow, white and black silk thread, with gorgeous colors, which naturally has the aesthetic function of decorating clothes and enjoying them, and because it is filled with special Chinese herbal medicines, it also has the effects of exorcising evil spirits, sterilizing and refreshing the mind. According to the Book of Rites, underage men and women must wear sachets to worship their parents in the morning and evening, which shows that sachets also have ceremonial functions.

During the Warring States period, even in Qin, Han and Jin dynasties, men and women wore sachets, which gradually became special products for women and children after Jin dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, officials and historians began to wear sachets in their robes, and the role of etiquette became more and more prominent.

In the Qing Dynasty, sachets became a good gift, especially for lovers. In modern times, sachet is an effective carrier of traditional culture, which plays an irreplaceable role in interpersonal communication, beautifying the environment, cultivating sentiment and expressing feelings. Send a sachet, convey a friendship, take a good mood, express a good wish, which contains rich cultural connotation and spiritual orientation.