In ancient China, the five colors were considered auspicious, so early in the morning on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, when the adults in the family get up, they start tying five-colored threads to the wrists, necks and ankles of the children, which are said to ward off harm from poisonous insects.

The five-colored warp threads of the Dragon Boat Festival should be brought to the arrival of the first summer rains or the first bath before they can be taken off and thrown into the river, signifying that illnesses are allowed to wash away in the river and that children can be healthy and safe.

Hobo is also a Dragon Boat Festival must have a unique folk crafts, which is made by adults for children to carry around the bag, initially loaded with sweat-absorbing mussel powder, exorcism talisman, copper coins, andrographis powder to avoid worms, the development of the later become loaded with spices of the scent sacs, the purpose of which is to ward off evil spirits and dispel calamities.