This kind of sachet is also called flannel, box, box, Xiang Ying and Pei Wei. Today is called purse, playing with goods and shorting. It is a folk embroidery handicraft created by working women in ancient China. It is the product of China's ancient farming culture marked by men plowing and women weaving. It is the inheritance and regeneration of China's traditional culture, which has lasted for more than 1000 years. This sachet was originally called flannel. In Qu Yuan's Lisao, there is a saying that "Hujiang powder, when finished, thought it was Pei". At that time, the spices were Bizhi and Qiu Lan, and it was called velvet until the Ming Dynasty. Traditional sachets in China are mostly made of silk and filled with realgar, smoked grass, mugwort and other spices. Judging from the Qing Dynasty sachets preserved by the people in China, most of them take flowers and animals as themes, and express all kinds of emotional sustenance and beautiful yearning in a figurative and symbolic way. For example, Pisces, butterflies and dragons are used to symbolize love, intercourse and fertility between the two sexes; Describe women with metaphors such as lotus, lotus, peony and plum blossom; Compare men with magpies and flower-picking bees in Deng Mei.
The Function and Implication of the Dragon Boat Festival sachet
It is said that the purpose of wearing sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival is to symbolize Qu Yuan's moral integrity, which will last forever. On the other hand, it can play a role in driving away epidemics and strengthening the body. The sachet is also called the sachet. Its root lies in the ancient "Ai Hu" and "Mourning the House". Children wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which not only means to ward off evil spirits, but also has the style of decorating with their heads. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, and the fragrance is overflowing, and then tied into a rope with five-color silk thread to make a string of different shapes, exquisite and eye-catching
Main components of Dragon Boat Festival sachet
The traditional sachet consists of realgar, cinnabar, smoked grass, mugwort leaves and other spices, as well as Chinese herbal medicines such as Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Scutellariae Radix, Herba Sparganii, Rhizoma Kaempferiae and Gan Song. The sachet was called "sachet" in ancient times. It is made by embroidering patterns and patterns on colored silk with colored silk thread, then sewing them into small embroidered sachets of different sizes and filling them with various smells.