Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of wearing sachets, but its origin, many people are not clear. Dragon Boat Festival is a special festival set up to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. So many parents will bring sachets to children on Dragon Boat Festival. Do you know why? Let's learn about it with sihai.com.
The origin of the custom of wearing sachets on Dragon Boat Festival
Tracing back to the origin of sachets, as early as in the pre Qin Dynasty, women wore five thread ornaments on their heads. In the northern and Southern Dynasties, sachets developed into sachets. In the Tang Dynasty, sachets with spices appeared. The main raw materials of the sachet are realgar, wormwood leaf, and smoked grass. Its function was deified in ancient times, just like the red belly of little Nezha in Fengshenbang, which has the effect of fighting evil and winning.
The evolution of the custom of wearing sachets on Dragon Boat Festival
May is commonly known as the poison moon. According to the records of wind and earth records, the day of May 5 in the lunar calendar, also known as the mid heaven Festival, has the custom of making all kinds of evil things. When Jingchu was old, it also recorded that every Dragon Boat Festival, on the day of Dragon Boat Festival, we cut wormwood into the shape of a tiger, or cut cloth into a small tiger, to avoid some poisonous things. In addition, according to the above records, we use colorful lines to fasten it Tied to a child's arm, can make him a hundred years old, call it a long life.
The two customs gradually merged into one, and evolved into a small cloth bag filled with wormwood, realgar and sandalwood powder, mixed with spices, which was hung for children, to prevent the invasion of poisonous insects, have the function of eliminating poison and evil, and become a symbol of life and good luck. So the position of sachet was determined.
Reasons for wearing sachets on Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival children wearing sachets, not only has the meaning of avoiding evil and expelling plague, but also has the wind of embellishment. There are cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine in the sachet. It is wrapped with silk cloth, which is fragrant. Then, it is made of five colored silk strings, which are made into different shapes, forming a string. It is colorful, exquisite and eye-catching.
Sachets are also called sachets, sachets, pouches, etc. they are wrapped with five colored silk threads, sewn with rags, and filled with spices (made of Angelica dahurica, Ligusticum chuanxiong, baicalin, paicao, Chennai, Gansong and Gaoxing), which are worn on the chest and smell fragrant. Chen Shiliang's "Guangji at the age of" quoted "miscellaneous at the age of" mentions a kind of "end five with red and white color as a bag, with color lines running through it, twitching like a flower. 'and another kind of' clam powder Bell ':' put clam powder into silk for five days, affix it with cotton, if you count beads. Let children take it to absorb sweat.
As the old saying goes: 'Dragon Boat Festival objects: baisuo, Ai Hua, Yinxiang drum'er, huahuaqiao painting fan, Xiangtang fruit, zongzi and so on'. Wear sachet, keep away evil and drive away plague, and embellish with lapel. There are cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine in the sachet, which are wrapped with silk cloth and tied with five colored silk threads. The Chinese herbal medicine used in the sachet can emit natural fragrance, which belongs to the five odor category in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and has the effects of opening up the mind, refreshing the spleen, eliminating the filth and pleasing the spirit. Modern medical research has also proved that the reason why these drugs have aromatic smell is that they contain a lot of volatile oil, which has antibacterial, antiviral and other functions. The perfume in the traditional sachet of Dragon Boat Festival can prevent cold, hand, foot and mouth disease, etc., and has certain effect on mosquito control and insect repellent.
How to wear Sachets
In order to prevent diseases and keep fit, the elderly generally like to wear plum blossom, chrysanthemum, peach, apple, lotus, baby riding fish, baby holding cock, double lotus and other shapes, which symbolize the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers, all the best, the love of husband and wife, and family harmony. Children like birds and animals, such as tigers and leopards; monkeys play Yu, cockfights, etc.
Young people are most fastidious about wearing sachets. If they are lovers in love, the amorous girl should carefully make one or two unique sachets for her lover before the festival. The young man is wearing the sachet given by his sweetheart. Naturally, he wants to attract comments from men and women around him. He praises his object's dexterity.
On the eve of Dragon Boat Festival, if the traditional Chinese medicine health sachet for children is purchased from the regular medical institutions of traditional Chinese medicine, and the sachet is made strictly according to the traditional standards, it will have a certain preventive health care effect on children, otherwise it will backfire. However, for pregnant women, especially the first three months of pregnancy, it is not suitable to wear sachets for a long time.
Composition and efficacy of Sachet
Sachets are also called sachets, sachets, pouches, etc. they are wrapped with five colored silk threads, sewn with rags, and filled with spices (made of Angelica dahurica, Ligusticum chuanxiong, baicalin, paicao, Chennai, Gansong and Gaoxing), which are worn on the chest and smell fragrant. Chen Shiliang's "Guangji at the age of" quoted "miscellaneous at the age of" mentions a kind of "end five with red and white color as a bag, with color lines running through it, twitching like a flower. 'and another kind of' clam powder Bell ':' put clam powder into silk for five days, affix it with cotton, if you count beads. Let children take it to absorb sweat.
As the old saying goes: 'Dragon Boat Festival objects: Ai Hua, baisuo, huahuaqiao painting fan, Xiangtang fruit, silver like drum, zongzi and so on'. Wear sachet, keep away evil and drive away plague, and embellish with lapel. There are cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine in the sachet, which are wrapped with silk cloth and tied with five colored silk threads.
The Chinese herbal medicine used in the sachet can emit natural fragrance, which belongs to the five odor category in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and has the effects of opening up the mind, refreshing the spleen, eliminating the filth and pleasing the spirit. Modern medical research has also proved that the reason why these drugs have aromatic smell is that they contain a lot of volatile oil, which has antibacterial, antiviral and other functions. The perfume in the traditional sachet of Dragon Boat Festival can prevent cold, hand, foot and mouth disease, etc., and has certain effect on mosquito control and insect repellent.