Chinese Embroidery Pouch Hebao, the pinyin for Chinese embroidered pouch, is derived from the original name of an ancient food and turns out to be a bag for containing things. It refers to a bag woven out of satin and cloth. It has a thick inner layer, and is embroidered outside. It is widely spread among people and servers as a gift for expressing friendship and souvenir in social life. It can be used in daily life as mirror bag, fan bag, watch bag, card bag, tobacco bag and wallet, etc.
Girls make it for practicing embroidery.
There goes a custom in Suzhou of Jiangsu Province that girls begin to learn embroidery and make various pouches at the age of about seven. When married a girl gives the pouches she has made to the relatives and friends of her husband's family on the occasion of wedding. They act as the gifts and a manifestation of her deftness in handiwork. Secondly, on the Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese people have the custom of inserting Chinese mugwort to exorcise the five poisonous creatures while girls make the embroidered pouches. It is attached to the front of clothing or hung around the child's neck.