The Dragon Boat Festival incense bag is usually loaded with Chinese medicine such as mugwort leaves, atractylodes macrocephala, sannah, angelica dahurica, etc., and some of them are loaded with spices such as xionghuang, vanilla and so on.

These things are loaded not only with the aroma of Chinese medicine, but also can play a refreshing, wake up the brain and other health effects, in the Chinese medicine store can be purchased.

The Dragon Boat Festival scented bags are also known as scented bags, purse. Some with colorful silk thread twisted into, some with various types of cloth patchwork into, above will be sewn a variety of animal and plant patterns as decoration, different shapes and sizes. Filled with spices and herbs worn on the chest both fragrant, but also to prevent mosquitoes from biting, remove the poison.

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Duanwu Festival customs

One, eat the "five yellow". Dragon Boat Festival day, in the Jiangnan tradition, must eat five yellow - eel, yellow fish, cucumber, salted egg yolks, yellow wine (originally Xionghuang wine, because of the toxicity of Xionghuang, generally drink ordinary yellow wine instead), and therefore the month is also known as the "five yellow month".

Two, eat "five white". Dragon Boat Festival folk also popular with the "five white" to match, that is, white cut meat, white garlic, white chicken, white tofu and wild rice. Dragon Boat Festival food "five yellow", and then with the "five white", can clear heat and fire, spleen and stomach.

Three, eat noodles fan. Minqin County, Gansu Province, around the Dragon Boat Festival this day are steamed "face fan". Face fan steamed with flour, fan-shaped, with five layers. Each layer is sprinkled with finely ground cooked pepper, the surface pinched into a variety of patterns, dyed colors, very nice. This food custom is said to have evolved from the custom of making, selling and giving fans at the Dragon Boat Festival.

Four, eat tea eggs. Nanchang area in Jiangxi Province, the Dragon Boat Festival to cook tea eggs and salt water eggs to eat. Eggs are eggs, duck eggs, goose eggs. Egg shells painted red, with colorful mesh bags, hanging around the neck of small children, meaning that the blessing of the child in good luck, peace and prosperity.

Five, eat cake. Dragon Boat Festival is also a grand festival of the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food on this day is the fragrant cake. The rice cake is made of mugwort and glutinous rice, placed in a large wooden trough chiseled from a single log and beaten with a long-handled wooden mallet.

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