Flowers are embroidered patterns, which are designed according to the teachings of pure land in Buddhism. Its moral is to regard this small sachet as a pure land in the west, because since the Tang Dynasty, deformed plum blossoms have been placed on the Buddha's chest as auspicious symbols. Judging from the existing sachets in Qingyang since the Qing Dynasty, most of them take flowers and animals as the main characters, expressing all kinds of emotional sustenance and beautiful yearning in a figurative and symbolic way. For example, Pisces, butterflies and dragons are used to symbolize love, intercourse and fertility between the two sexes; Describe women with metaphors such as lotus, lotus, peony and plum blossom; Metaphor is a man with magpies and flower-picking bees; Pine crane symbolizes longevity, pomegranate symbolizes many children; And people who use homophones of Chinese characters as metaphors can also be seen everywhere: "Early birth of your son" (a combination pattern of dates, peanuts, longan and lotus seeds) is given to newlyweds; A "childlike innocence" for the long-lived elderly (there is a combination pattern of cats and butterflies playing peony, indicating that old age life is very interesting); Children's "longevity doll" (a naive doll as the main body, surrounded by bats and peaches, indicating that the child will live long) ...
The traditional concept of ghosts and gods makes people think that if children want to grow up safely and without disasters, they must rely on gods or mascots to ward off evil spirits, eliminate disasters and protect themselves. Qingyang's single sachet with tiger and lion patterns, Wudu dustpan, Wudu hat and other group sachets all belong to this category. In addition, there are chickens that crow at dawn, so the ancients associated chickens with the disappearance of ghosts, thinking that ghosts are afraid of chickens and chickens can ward off evil spirits. In addition, garlic sachet (garlic bone flower) is also a symbol of avoiding evil spirits. Sewing gourd seeds into gourd sachets is also considered to be a treasure with infinite magic to protect ears.
Each kind of sachet is exquisite, and Wudu sachet is one of the most distinctive sachets in Qingyang. It permeates the symbolic meaning of seeking happiness for diseases and avoiding evil spirits, and places people's ideals and pursuits in life. "Five Poisons" are several kinds of animals, with slightly different definitions in different regions, but they are basically ugly, disgusting and frightening animals, such as crabs, toads, poisonous snakes, spiders, scorpions, lizards, centipedes and geckos. Animals that often appear in the theme of "Five Poisons" are all dangerous animals that people think pose a threat to their survival in ancient society. In ancient times, people were awed by all kinds of poisonous insects, so they were endowed with some divinity or magic. Qingyang's unique "five poisons" sachet also borrows this idea of fighting poison with poison, keeping peace, eliminating all diseases, crises and keeping health. It is the artistic and aesthetic sublimation of human life, and it is the artistic concept that the most primitive life spirit and belief connotation of the nation have accumulated on the Han people for a long time.
Hundreds of clothes are made of various kinds of cloth ends. Each piece of clothes is an octagonal flower with bagua deformation, with eight flowers in total, representing 8864 hexagrams. The child is missing eight characters at birth and can make up for it.
There is also a kind of sachet called "running water", which is made of bamboo and wrapped with silk thread. Most of them are given by mother-in-law to daughter-in-law, which means saving food and saving money. There are also exquisite sachets for marriage. The male is called "Siling Qingsuo" and the female is called "Xiangsuo". There are seven beads wearing red lines, which means that they have been wearing red lines all the time on July 7, and they are exchanged when they get married, just like exchanging rings in western weddings.