How to weave colorful ropes on Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival red rope is also called longevity rope, longevity rope, longevity rope, longevity rope, longevity rope and longevity rope, with different names and similar shapes and functions.

This custom is tied with colorful silk on the Dragon Boat Festival, or hung at the door, or around the child's neck, or tied to the child's arm, or hung on the bed curtain, cradle and other places. It is said that it can avoid disasters, protect health and prolong life.

Wearing colored thread on Dragon Boat Festival is very particular. Multicolored lines are made up of lines of five colors. Five colors are not just any five colors, they must be blue, white, red, black and yellow. These five colors respectively represent wood, gold, fire, water and earth in the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements. At the same time, it symbolizes east, west, south, north and China respectively, and contains five kinds of divine powers, which can drive away evil spirits, eliminate diseases and strengthen the body, and make people healthy and live longer. Multicolored threads are worn by men with their left hands and women with their right hands. They can be tied around their necks or ankles. Another person said that if a child is less than one year old, he will only wear red thread.

There are five forms of this festival:

1. Simply weave the five-color silk thread into a rope and tie it to your arm;

2. Decorate Suk Kim ornaments on colorful ropes and hang them around the neck;

3. The colored rope is folded into a square and decorated on the chest;

4. Colorful knots are worn by portraits;

5. Embroider the sun, moon, stars, black beasts and other things with colored silk thread to pay tribute to the elders.

This custom began in the Han Dynasty. Ying Shao wrote "Lost Customs" in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "In the afternoon, tie your arms with colorful silks to avoid ghosts and soldiers, so that people will not get sick. One is a long-lived ghost fire, and the other is a soldier. " Later, the two gradually got used to it until modern times.

Qing Fu Chaton's "Yanjing Years" recorded the custom at that time: "Every time the sun goes down, those who are clever in the boudoir will make tigers, zongzi, gourds, cherries and mulberries with colored threads and hang them on their hair pins or tie them on the backs of children." Among them, in the Tang and Song Dynasties, the imperial court gave ministers things like saving things. In the first year of Xingyuan in Tang Daizong, the court gave one hundred rope axes. "Book of Rites XV": "The day before, the golden thread was given an official life extension, and the colored thread was given an official life extension. Wear it on holidays. "

After the first rain after the Dragon Boat Festival, the red rope will be taken off. Because for people who tie the five red ropes, it can help them avoid evil spirits and get rid of troubles and sadness. therefore

Throw away the red rope after the first rain after the Dragon Boat Festival, so that you can stay away from evil, troubles and worries, let them flow away with the rain and never come back, and bring you good luck for a year.