On the Dragon Boat Festival day, more traditional families will dress their children with a perfume pouch, which are little bags made of colorful silk cloth, the bags are then filled with herbal medicines with aromatic scents.
The elderly woman, surnamed Sun, who lives in a residential community in the Pudong New Area and battling colorectal cancer, was in urgent need of herbal medicines but was unable to make the trip to her hospital in Puxi.
That night, Dad dragged a pile of old army bags up from the basement. He said they were our " head for the hills" bags. We spent that night packing them with supplies—herbal medicines, water purifiers, flint and steel.