On the thick land of China, there is a colorful sachet world with a long history and strong national flavor, with profound cultural connotation behind it. These sachets are in various forms: phoenix lantern, fish lantern, dragon lantern, needle stick, hydrangea, butterfly string, Fushouwa, auspicious money, lotus flower drilled by Pisces, unicorn gift, zodiac series ... and daily necessities such as frog pillow, embroidered shoes and shawl.

Behind every sachet, there is almost a legend and story, such as "Five Poisons Frog", in which scorpions, centipedes, stinging bees and cockroaches are embroidered on frogs to be worn by children to fight poison with poison. "Hundred clothes" are made by sewing a little cloth from each family. Each piece of cloth is an octagonal flower with eight * * *, representing eight, eight and sixty-four hexagrams. Children can make up for anything they lack when they are born.

The most interesting thing is the story of "butterfly flapping melon". Legend has it that the new wife is beautiful and the father-in-law has evil thoughts. The new wife is very embarrassed, thinking about sachets. She made a bag of sweet butterflies and melons for her father-in-law, and asked him to guess the meaning, saying that it was up to him to guess, otherwise he would die and stop pestering him. My father-in-law guessed left and right, but he couldn't guess it all the time, so he had to give up. It turns out that this sachet means that only small melons have flowers that attract butterflies, while old melons have no flowers and will not attract butterflies. The implication is that you are too old and I am not interested in you!

There are also some sachets with exaggerated deformation, but the variation is reasonable. For example, the "Yin-Yang wallet" has leaves on it and flowers on the bottom. This reverse production is the inversion of yin and yang, which means that the sun shines at night, the moon comes out during the day, yin and yang alternate, and everything grows. "Fish Dragon Change" is embroidered with 365 pieces of small cloth on a dragon that is only five inches long. Fish is hidden in dragons, and 365 pieces of cloth represent a year.

These exquisite sachets are hand-sewn by local rural women. Most of these women, as well as their mothers and their mothers' mothers, have no education, and they have no profound artistic aesthetics. How did they create such exquisite handicrafts? Is it inspired by the blending of human beings and nature, or is it caused by the accumulation of thousands of years of civilization and culture? Or both.