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端午节 Chinese Dragon Boat festival – perfume pouches making workshop
| Xiang bao (香包), or perfume pouches, are a traditional craft made during the Dragon Boat Festival. The pouches are good luck charm worn on the body or hung to ward off bad spirits. Let’s learn to make how to make these beautiful pouches! |
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There are many different traditional customs for dragon boat festival: Eating sticky rice dumplings, participating in or attending Dragon Boat races, drinking realgar wine… and wearing perfume pouches!
Before Dragon Boat Festival arrives, parents usually prepare perfume pouches for their children. They sew little bags with colourful silk cloth, fill the bags with perfumes or herbal medicines, and then string them shut with silk threads.
During Dragon Boat Festival perfume pouches are hung around people’s wrists, bags, or tied to the front of a garment as an ornament. The perfume pouches are said to protect people from evil or bad luck.
We will teach you how to make your own perfume pouches! You can choose different fabrics, perfumes, and make your own unique ornament to wear on Dragon boat festival!
About the Event
When: 6:00-6:30pm, June 19 to June 22 (Monday to Thursday). Before your class with us.
Where: Dear Asia Aldgate Centre
Who: All our students are welcome! Just come a little earlier before your evening class and have fun with your classmates and teachers!
How much: £20 (Free for our students!)
RSVP for the event: If you are a DA student, please RSVP above. If you are not, you might have to purchase event tickets from our Eventbrite page.