Folk regard the colorful rope as the "colorful dragon", the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Children's Festival", May was called the poisonous moon by the ancients, and the Dragon Boat Festival tied with colorful rope has the meaning of protecting children from demons and avoiding evil. The five-colored rope that washes away with the water will turn into a small dragon and take away the bad things on you. In this way, troubles and sorrows will flow away with the rain, which will bring you good luck for a year.
It is reported that ancient China worshipped the five colors, with the five colors as the auspicious color. Tying arms with five-colored silk was once a very popular custom. The Han Dynasty should help the "Customs and Customs" to record: "On the fifth day of May, give five colors of life-sustaining silk, as the saying goes, to benefit people's lives." The "Chronicle of the Jing Chu Dynasty" says: "Tie the arms with multicolored silk, and the name is to open up soldiers, so that people are not sick and plagued." ”
Wearing colorful threads during the Dragon Boat Festival is very exquisite. Multicolored threads are made of threads of five colors. The five colors are not just a matter of using any five colors, but must be blue, white, red, black and yellow. These five colors represent wood, metal, fire, water, and earth from the theory of yin and yang. At the same time, it symbolizes the east, west, south, north and middle respectively, and contains the five divine powers, which can drive away evil spirits, dispel diseases and strengthen the body, and make people healthy and long-lived. The multicolored thread made is worn on the left and right of the man, and can be tied to the neck of the hand or to the neck of the foot. It is also said that if a child is not yet one year old, he will only tie a red colored line. Although the folklore stipulates that the first rain of the Dragon Boat Festival, the colored rope should be taken off and thrown into the rain to symbolize away from evil, troubles and diseases, sorrow, but I hope that everyone will not throw it on the ground, it is best to throw it into the rainwater in a secluded place, so as not to affect the environment and increase the workload of sanitation workers.
In addition to the custom of bringing colorful ropes, the Dragon Boat Festival also hangs small peppers, tiger shoes, and children write the king character on their heads, so that children do not make trouble, but also to drive away disasters and plagues. Tying colorful ropes for children is an important custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, and it has the beautiful meaning of praying for Najib. The predecessor of the long life lock is the "long life wisp", also known as the "long life wisp". Its significance is to lock the life of the child and prevent the invasion of the disease and plague ghost from harming the child. The ancients believed that once a child put on a lock, he could grow up without disaster and in peace; the long-life lock expressed more of the blessings of the elders to the younger generations.
Every Dragon Boat Festival, every household hangs a five-colored silk rope on the lintel to avoid ominousness; so traditionally five-colored silk is woven into a rope, equipped with a silver lock, wrapped around the child's arm, in order to pray for the ward off evil and disaster, the disease and prolong the years! In the early morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the first major event after adults wake up is to tie the Dragon Boat Line around the wrists, ankles and necks of sleeping children. When the thread is tied, the child cannot speak. Some married men are also forced by their wives to wear colored ropes, and many men are afraid of being seen by others, so they quietly tie them to their ankles. This five-color rope is also exquisite, it must be tied before the sun comes out, otherwise it will not work, and the five-color rope can not be arbitrarily torn or discarded, only until the heavy rainy day after the Dragon Boat Festival, it is still in the drainage of the courtyard wall, with the rain washed away.
The meaning represented by the multicolored rope
The five colors of the five-color silk represent the five elements, and the Han Dynasty believes in the five elements of yin and yang, and the five colors represent the five directions, which are mutually exclusive, and have a mysterious role in driving away evil spirits and welcoming auspiciousness. Cyan belongs to wood, representing the East, red belongs to fire, represents the south, yellow belongs to the earth, represents the center, white belongs to gold, represents the west, and black belongs to the water, representing the north. With animals as the symbol, the green dragon in the east, the suzaku in the south, the white tiger in the west, the Xuanwu (turtle and snake) in the north, and the yellow dragon in the center are all spiritual creatures. The symbolic significance of the five-colored silk to drive away evil spirits and avoid plague is far more obvious than the actual function, because there is no specific explanation of why these colors will eliminate disasters and diseases. It can be seen that this is a magic and symbolic magic object in the common faith, and the medicinal functions such as mugwort, calamus, and xionghuang used in festivals are obviously different, and it is purely the need for common faith and auspiciousness. However, on the other hand, the five-colored silk of the festival fully expresses the meaning of congratulations.
Children use five-colored silk to tie their necks and wrap their hands and ankles, commonly known as long life wisps, life extension wisps, 100-year-old ropes, and jian ropes.
Illustration of the weaving of multicolored ropes
1. Braid 5 threads of different colors from the middle and make a buttonhole. The size should be grasped well, and the rope on the side should be basically the same length.
2, take one of the wires around a single buckle, at this time each color of the line becomes 2.
3. The previously prepared line, folded in half and buckled the line of the same color under the eye, together with four strands of debate. Note that you must braid four braids, and tie the knot before it is flat.
4, in addition, take a jade thread (like what color, use what color) in the previously woven four strands of braid on the flat knot, be sure to put the five four strands of braids on the same plane, arrange the order, how beautiful you feel so arranged.
5, flat knot woven to a certain length, you can cut off the burn sticky, the length to master by yourself.
6. Braid the four strands to the required length
7, take another jade wire to weave a flat knot, and the color and length of the front should be consistent.
8, the following is the key to the flat knot sintering sticking after the flinging line to sort out, the left right side of each leaving 5 different color lines (for button knots), the remaining 10 flinging lines in the middle to cut off the slinging stick.
9. Tie the button knot. Cut off the excess, adjust the line and cut off the stick.
10, the life of the year of the colorful rope is done, if it is the Dragon Boat Festival, change the color on the line.
