The custom of wearing sachets on Dragon Boat Festival has a long history. "Qishan County Records" cloud:? Duanyang tied his arm with four-color thread and wore a sachet, which was exquisite and exquisite. ? Archaeologists have seen similar sachets in Han tombs. On the Dragon Boat Festival in the Han Dynasty, there was a door for locks and pottery silver to ward off evil spirits. Jing Chu Shi Ji:? On May 5, everyone stepped on a hundred herbs, picked moxa as a human being and hung it in the house with poison gas. ? In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Zhu Suo was changed into colorful silk and tied to his arm. Soldiers? . "Yi Tong Customs" includes:? On May 5th, Chase became a soldier, which made people not sick. One is an immortal dragon, one is a soldier, one is a five-color dragon, and the other is a colorful rope. ? May of the lunar calendar is the season of cocoon harvest. Women dye and practice silk, make flowers, birds, insects and fish, and embroider gold thread for their elders. And tie the five-color thread on your chest or arm. Was the capital of the Song Dynasty specially established? Bezo? -selling sachets. In "Local Conditions and Customs", there are: make mugwort leaves into the shape of a tiger, or cut the ribbon like a tiger and put it on the mugwort leaves to wear? . ? This is Ai Chang that has been handed down to this day? , the origin of wearing sachets.
Dragon Boat Festival is in the epidemic period of summer plague. Since ancient times, people's activities are aimed at eliminating disasters and preventing diseases. Legend has it that in ancient times, when people were still living a hunting life, in order to avoid being hurt by poisonous insects, they often took some herbal bags with them. Today, some old people in rural areas in western Qin still wear decorative Chinese medicine roots all the year round. Some children wear similar things all year round? Five poisons? , snakehead shell and similar? Medicine gourd? Our sachets are a continuation of this custom. The custom of wearing sachets has always been popular among the people in Western Qin Dynasty. Every year before the Dragon Boat Festival, my grandmother and uncle will wrap my nephew with stomachs and sachets. Box sellers can be seen everywhere in towns and cities. Especially in bags? Five poisons? Images and zodiac sachets are the most popular. There are five kinds of traditional Chinese medicines synthesized in sachets: Vanilla? . "Jingchu Ji" contains: Is it the Japanese who collect miscellaneous drugs in the competition? . Xia Yun:? Store medicine and stop poison gas on this day? . Now? Five poisons? Sweet bursa, so-called sweet bursa? Build the way of five soldiers? . "Local conditions and customs, Bao Puzi" says: Or ask five soldiers for directions, saying; There is a red spell in front of your heart on May 5th?
Before the Dragon Boat Festival, new wives should show off their skillful hands and make many sachets for the elderly, husbands, neighbors and children to wear. Show respect and good wishes to them. Young people also exchange gifts for the friendship between relatives and friends for good luck. In particular, there is a custom in the Western Qin Dynasty. After the young people get engaged, the man gives the woman a sachet. Wallet is the best gift for men and women to express new soul. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, should the mother embroider carefully? Five poisons? Images of scorpions, toads, centipedes, lizards, snakes and animal sachets in the Chinese zodiac. There is also a string of five objects called. Realgar bag? At the top is a big snake or tiger, which is worn on the shoulder and hung with sachets. The five-color garden is sold out.
The sachet embodies the unique aesthetic taste of the working people in China. I hope this little flower in the hundred gardens of folk art can continue to develop and add color to a better life.