The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Summer Festival, is a time when mosquitoes breed, so it's traditional to use silk cloth filled with spices such as xiong huang, smoked grass, and mugwort leaves to make scented sachets, which can be worn as a means of repelling insects and avoiding evil spirits. To welcome the Dragon Boat Festival, the Taipei Botanical Garden - the new generation of future museums also displayed a special "folklore and herbs" plant exhibition, and teach the size of the friends how to make scented sachets. (Photo courtesy of Taipei Botanical Garden)
Taiwan custom that the Dragon Boat Festival day at noon, is the time of the year's yang, so with drinking water can be strong, drive away all diseases, take the noon water added lemongrass, mugwort, calamus and other plants to drive away the evil plants together with the bath, but also anti-virus fitness effect, wearing a bag of incense to achieve the effect.
Scented bag practice 6 steps
1. Preparation of materials: Prepared to like the non-woven scented bag and the two lengths of the rope, the rope shall be folded for the scented bag mouth about twice the width of the length of the rope.
2. Cloth bag through the rope: will be the opening of the cloth bag cut spacing and equal length of the small mouth, and one of the rope through the holes in the bag, the other rope is the opposite direction through.
3. Beading: Choose two beautiful beads, pass two strings through the holes of the beads, and tie a knot at the end of the two strings to fix it.
4. Appearance modeling: Then other colors of non-woven fabric cut into various shapes, glued to the bag to add shape.
5. Fill in the herbs: Select some dry grass leaves or any herb leaves into the tea bag, the herb leaves must be dried and processed in order not to mold, it is recommended to use star anise, lemongrass, cinnamon sticks, hibiscus, mugwort and so on.
6. Done: the two ends of the rope bundled up on the completion of their own Dragon Boat Festival incense bag! (Photo courtesy of Taipei Botanical Garden)
In addition, the Taipei Botanical Garden - New Generation Future Pavilion reopened on June 1, and held a "Future Pavilion Spice Bags DIY" event on June 12 (Wed), the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, from 1 to 3 p.m., so that children of all sizes can make their own alternative spice bags.