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Why do you bring colorful ropes on the Dragon Boat Festival? Introduction to the weaving method of c

the Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. Many places have the custom of giving children sachets and colorful ropes on the Dragon Boat Festival. Wearing sachets and colorful ropes is a long-standing traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, but many people don't know why they wear colorful ropes on the Dragon Boat Festival. This article brings you the reasons for wearing colorful ropes on the Dragon Boat Festival and the compilation and distribution of colorful ropes. Let's have a look.

Tying colorful ropes for children is an important custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. It has the beautiful meaning of praying for Naji. The predecessor of longevity lock is' longevity lock ', also known as' longevity lock'.

Its significance is to lock the child's life and avoid the invasion of diseases and ghosts to endanger the child. The ancients believed that once a child wore a lock, he could grow up safely without disaster; Longevity lock more expresses the blessing of elders to younger generations.

Every Dragon Boat Festival, every family hangs a five-color silk rope on the lintel to avoid bad luck; Therefore, traditionally, the rope is made of five-color colored silk and wrapped around children's arms with silver locks to pray for ward off evil spirits, eliminate disasters and prolong life!

It is reported that ancient China worshipped five colors and took them as auspicious colors. It was once a popular festival custom to tie arms with five-color silk. The Han Dynasty should help "Customs Tongyi" records: "on May 5, five colors were given to continue life silk, which is said to benefit people's lives."

"Jing Chu Sui Shi Ji" contains: "the arm is tied with colorful silk. It is called Bibing, which is not plagued by disease."

It's very exquisite to wear colorful thread on the Dragon Boat Festival. Multicolored thread is made of thread of five colors. The five colors are not just any five colors, but must be green, white, red, black and yellow.

These five colors represent wood, gold, fire, water and earth according to the theory of Yin-Yang and five elements. At the same time, it symbolizes the East, West, South, North and middle respectively, and contains five divine powers, which can drive away evil spirits, dispel diseases and strengthen the body, so as to make people healthy and live a long life.

The multicolored thread is worn by men on the left and women on the right, which can be tied on the neck of the hand or the neck of the foot. Another said that if the child is not over a year old, he will only wear red colored lines.

Although the folk custom agreed that in the first rain of the Dragon Boat Festival, the colored rope should be taken off and thrown into the rain to symbolize being away from evil, trouble, disease and sadness, I hope you don't throw it everywhere, and you'd better throw it into the rain water in a secluded place, so as not to affect the environment and increase the workload of sanitation workers.

Introduction to the weaving method of colorful rope for Dragon Boat Festival:

1. When weaving by yourself, for convenience, you can choose a thin refill as an auxiliary weaving tool. During operation, tie and fix the colorful rope, and then you can knit.

2. When weaving, pay attention to braiding five colored ropes from the middle into five braids, which is the same as the general hand rope weaving method. When weaving, fold the buttonhole in half, then fasten it with one of the threads, and then make a single buckle. Next, the lines of each color become two.

3. Now, use the originally prepared color rope to carefully turn the color rope with the same color into a four strand rope braid, so that the knot can be smooth and smooth.

4. Next, take another colored rope of any color, about 40 cm long, and tie a flat knot on the originally braided four strand rope braid. When braiding, pay attention to the neat braiding of the five colored ropes.

5. If you don't like monotony and like some patterns, you can string beautiful beads on the color rope or add other decorations to make the bracelet more rich.

When the multicolored rope is woven to the length suitable for your wrist, the remaining part can be cut off and knotted. If you don't think the knot is beautiful, you can burn the excess part.