Presenting and wearing hsiang pao is still an important part of the Dragon Boat Festival, along with such customs as eating tsung-tse (rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves) and lichees, watching the boat races, and painting the character meaning "king" on the foreheads of children.
香包，曾在我國人民生活中扮演一個帶有溫馨和浪漫氣息的角色。雖然時至今日，香包已失去實用價值，但親手製作它，思想它的由來，揣摩它曾經發揮的功能，為親友、孩子或情人，一針一線縫進巧思與深情，也可以為現代生活平添不少情趣。