In traditional Chinese culture, it is very important to "benevolence, righteousness, wisdom, faith, gentleness, courtesy and frugality", and friends with the same interests and loyal and courageous generally like to worship as brothers of the opposite sex.
In ancient China, there was a set of standard procedures for worshipping, usually the number of worshippers, each person's name, birthday eight characters, place of origin, worship time, oath and the names of the three generations of ancestors (parents, grandfathers, great-grandfathers) and other related matters were filled out clearly, and then folded into an envelope size with red paper, and the cover was written "Lan Spectrum" or "Jinlan Spectrum", which was collectively referred to as "Golden Orchid Spectrum", referred to as "Lan Spectrum".
After the "Jinlan Spectrum" is written, it is a worship, and in front of the Heaven and Earth Tablet (another saying is to worship the brothers for Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, and the Worship sisters are for Guanyin Masters or swear to heaven), prepare incense candles, offerings, and will fill in advance the "Jinlan Spectrum" for the incense case, according to the age, burn incense in turn, and prostrate, of which the elderly receive the oath on the Jinlan Spectrum. Bye bye, drink and eat together, and call each other brothers. After the feast, the group prostrated again, withdrew the incense case, and divided the "Golden Orchid Spectrum". In the future, if you turn against each other, you will first burn the "Golden Orchid Spectrum", which is called "breaking righteousness", also known as "plucking incense heads".
Worship brothers, gentely say "righteous knot Jinlan", Jinlan friendship is a Han chinese dating custom, but because many people are extravagant, you can also simply perform the eight worship rituals to marry brothers.
Similar to the "righteous knot Jinlan" are "the friendship of the golden stone" and "the good of the golden orchid". The friendship of jinshi refers to the friendship of friends who are as strong as jinshi, and there is a cloud in Ruan's "Yong Huai Poem" "How to make love between jinshi and once it is more injured." The goodness of Jinlan, as quoted in the "Taiping Imperial Records" from the "WuLu", records: "Zhang Wenyingcai Ou wei, worshiping the general Of the Middle Lang, hired Shu and Zhuge Liang to marry Jinlan's good yan." ”
Why do the brothers call it "Righteous Knot Jinlan"?
The allusion to the righteous knot Jinlan is derived from the "Shishu Xinyu Xianyuan" "Shan Gong and Ji and Ruan Yi, Qi Ruo Jinlan"; "Yi Zhi Ci Shang" also has a similar record: "Two people are in the same heart, and their profits are broken; the words of the same heart, their smell is like lan." ”
"Friendship" refers to friendship, and "contract" refers to contract, which is called friendship, also known as friendship. Usually friends and relatives, but also friends and relatives, the relationship is closer than the average distant relative and the average friend. Peer friendship is also known as worship, righteousness, and exchange of posts.
Why use "Kim Ran" instead of anything else?
"Meilan Zhuju" is known as the four gentlemen in the flower, and has been loved by the world for thousands of years with its elegant and indifferent image, and has also become a cultural symbol of personality.
Orchids are known as the fragrance of the king, and are known as the ancestors of incense. People usually show their personality through orchids, brotherhood is like an orchid, so it is customary to say "friendship of jinlan", "righteous knot jinlan", "qiruo jinlan", such a statement is also reasonable.
"Yijie Jinlan" is actually a social communication custom in traditional Chinese culture, referring to the emotional union between friends, and later used as a synonym for brothers and sisters.
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