Where is the custom of carrying sachets on Dragon Boat Festival? The significance of carrying sachets on Dragon Boat Festival.

2. The significance of using sachets for Dragon Boat Festival:

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, and is wrapped in silk cloth, with a fragrant smell. Chinese herbal medicines used in sachets can emit natural fragrance, which belongs to the category of five fragrances in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and have the effects of inducing resuscitation, invigorating the spleen, eliminating filth and refreshing the mind. Modern medical research has also proved that these drugs have aromatic odor and antibacterial and antiviral effects because they contain a lot of volatile oil. The spices in the traditional sachet of Dragon Boat Festival can prevent colds, hand, foot and mouth disease and so on. , and has a certain mosquito repellent effect.