The custom of tying colorful ropes on the Dragon Boat Festival has a long history. Every Dragon Boat Festival, we have to tie ropes of five colors on our wrists. Do you know what colors the colorful ropes on the Dragon Boat Festival are? What is the meaning of the colorful rope on the Dragon Boat Festival?
What are the colors of the colorful ropes for the Dragon Boat Festival
It is composed of five colors: cyan, red, yellow, white and black.
In fact, each color of the colorful rope on the Dragon Boat Festival is exquisite. For example, the attribute of cyan is wood, which represents the East; The red attribute is fire, which represents the South; The Yellow attribute is soil, which represents the center, while the white attribute is gold, which represents the west, and the black attribute is water, which represents the north.
Taking animals as attributes means that the East is a green dragon, the south is a rosefinch, the west is a white tiger, the north is a turtle and snake, and the center is a yellow dragon. These animals are spiritual objects.
However, the multicolored rope is not so fixed now. The multicolored rope can be flexible enough to use the colors you like. Anyway, as long as you wear a multicolored rope on the Dragon Boat Festival, it mainly has the function of avoiding evil spirits, eliminating diseases and blessing.
The meaning of the colorful rope on the Dragon Boat Festival:
In fact, the initial function of the Dragon Boat Festival is to pray for peace and joy, and then dispel diseases and evil spirits.
Generally speaking, not only the color of the colorful rope on the Dragon Boat Festival is exquisite, but also which hand to wear. Generally speaking, it is the wearing method of men's left and women's right. Of course, you can wear it freely on your hands, neck and ankles,
There is also a custom that if a child is not over one year old, he will only wear red colored lines.
How long to wear the colorful rope on the Dragon Boat Festival:
Generally, the first heavy rain after the Dragon Boat Festival should be taken down immediately and thrown into the drainage ditch. This practice has a very good moral that all your bad luck will be washed away with the water, and the colorful rope will turn into a little dragon to continue to protect you. Throwing away the colorful rope is throwing away all the pain, trouble and illness.