Sachets are also called purses. They are made of five-coloured silk threads and sewn with rags. They contain spices (made of Chinese herbal medicine) and are worn on the chest.

 

On the Dragon Boat Festival, children wear sachets, not only to avoid evil and to drive away from the pest but also to wind the embellishment of their heads. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar, and fragrant herbs. It is wrapped with a silk cloth, and the fragrance is overflowing. Then it is buckled with five-colour silk strings to make a variety of different shapes and form a string.

 

Now the contents of these pockets have changed several times, from sweat-absorbent mussel powder, exorcism charms, copper coins, and insect realgar powder to spice-filled sachets, and their production is becoming more and more refined, becoming unique to the Dragon Boat Festival. Folk art. 

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Wearing a sachet is quite particular. In order to prevent diseases and fitness, the elderly generally like to wear plums, chrysanthemums, peaches, apples, lotus flowers, dolls riding fish, dolls holding roosters, and double lotus flowers. They symbolize the scent of birds and flowers. Children like flying birds and beasts, such as tigers and leopards; monkeys go to the ball and fight cocks. Young people are most particular about wearing sachets. If they are lovers in love, then the passionate girl will elaborate on one or two chic sachets very early and give them to their lovers before the festival. The young man wore a sachet given by his sweetheart. Naturally, he would arouse comments from men and women around him, exaggerating the young man ’s ingenuity.