How to make Dragon Boat Festival sachets?

There are many traditional customs among the people. For example, every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, every household will make their own rice dumplings to eat. In addition, people have the habit of wearing sachets. In different places, there are different sayings about wearing sachets. For example, it can drive away evil spirits and pray for blessings. It also has many functions such as repelling insects and avoiding plague. If you don’t know how to make sachets for the Dragon Boat Festival, let’s learn together below.

How to make Dragon Boat Festival sachets?

Making of Dragon Boat Festival Sachet:

There are many ways to make Dragon Boat Festival sachets, and there are also many semi-finished handmade sachets available on the market. However, you should pay attention to whether the spice ingredients you buy are chemical flavors. Mothers who want to save trouble can go directly to authentic handicraft stores to buy and make beautiful products. Here this article introduces two methods of making sachets. The first one, the basic Dragon Boat Festival sachet, is relatively simple and suitable for parents and children to make together. The second one, the Dragon Boat Festival wrap-around sachet, is suitable for mothers who have a certain level of handicraft skills.

How to make basic sachets for Dragon Boat Festival

Materials required: red floral cloth, needle and thread, cotton, and fragrant powder.

Production steps:

Step 1: Cut a 9 cm square piece of cloth.

Making sachets for Dragon Boat Festival

Step 2: After folding diagonally, sew and leave a return edge.

Making sachets for Dragon Boat Festival

Step 3: Stuff with cotton and powder or spice bags and sew up. Here is a bulging triangle.

Making sachets for Dragon Boat Festival

Step 4: Sew the diagonals together.

Making sachets for Dragon Boat Festival

Step 5: Sew it together at the center point and shape it into a heart shape.

What spices are put in the Dragon Boat Festival sachets?

realgar

Realgar is also known as realgar stone, golden stone, and cockscomb stone. Realgar has a strong insecticidal effect. Early in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, people have the custom of using realgar to put a "king" character on children's foreheads to ward off evil spirits. This custom has been passed down for thousands of years. In summer, adding a small amount of realgar to the sachet and hanging it indoors can have a good effect in repelling mosquitoes and eliminating pests. However, please note that realgar is toxic and children should not take it casually.

Magnolia

The refreshing fragrance of magnolia flowers is intoxicating and has high medicinal value. Magnolia is pungent and warm in nature, and has the effects of dispelling wind, dispersing cold, opening the orifices, and clearing the lungs and nasal passages. Modern pharmacological research shows that magnolia also has a good inhibitory effect on common skin fungi.

Lemongrass

Lemongrass, also known as citronella, is a broad-spectrum antibacterial plant that directly inhibits the effect of influenza virus. The warm and calming herbal scent can also coordinate body conditioning, making people feel a simple and natural fragrance environment, dissolving troubles and mundane affairs, purifying and boosting emotions, and relieving depression.

Lavender

Lavender, also known as the perfume plant and angelica, has beautiful and elegant leaf shape and flower color. It is mainly used in aromatherapy or massage, and can effectively improve sleep. In addition, lavender has the effects of inhibiting bacteria, balancing oil secretion, and soothing the skin, so it is widely used in various high-end cleansing products.

Artemisia argyi

The leaves are an aromatic and turbid-clearing traditional Chinese medicine, and have a strong effect in expelling poison and eliminating plague. Hanging and burning mugwort leaves can kill bacteria and disinfect, and prevent the spread of plague. Mugwort has the functions of warming the meridians and stopping bleeding, dispelling cold and relieving pain.

rosemary

Rosemary has a refreshing aroma, so the ancients believed it could enhance memory. Now Chinese medicine also believes that drinking more rosemary tea can help students memorize a lot and improve their academic performance. Currently, the most recognized medicinal effect is antioxidant, so it is often placed indoors to purify the air.