Four seas net: Dragon Boat Festival is coming. There are many different customs of Dragon Boat Festival. In addition to rowing dragon boats, eating zongzi, planting wormwood, wearing sachets and so on, they wear colorful ropes. When do you wear the colorful rope on Dragon Boat Festival? Multicolored thread is made of five colors of thread. The time of wearing multicolored rope on Dragon Boat Festival is very exquisite. Next, let's take a look at the details.
When do you wear the colorful rope on Dragon Boat Festival
Avoid wearing colorful rope
1、 Before the sun came out on the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the adults got up and tied the Dragon Boat Festival line on the wrist, ankle and neck of the sleeping children. In some places, multicolored ropes can be worn the night before.
2、 When tying the colorful rope, the child cannot speak, and after wearing it, the child cannot arbitrarily tear or discard the colorful rope.
3、 It wasn't until July 7, the seventh mother's birthday that they were released and burned. Some places are the first rain after the Dragon Boat Festival. Pick it and throw it into the river, let it wash away with the rain.
4、 It is said that children wearing multicolored ropes can avoid the harm of poisonous insects like snakes and scorpions, and throwing them into the river means that the river will wash away the plague and disease, so that the children's door can be safe and healthy.
5、 Of course, in addition to the traditional use of multicolored silk into a rope, with a silver lock, wrapped around children's arms. In the old days, every family hung five colored silk ropes on their lintels on Dragon Boat Festival.
Classification of multicolored rope wearing
The time of wearing colorful rope is the same in Dragon Boat Festival, but with the development of time, colorful rope presents a variety of ways. The simplest one is to choose the blue, white, red, black and yellow five colors of string, and then five strands into a rope, directly on the arm. And some people like to match some gold and silver ornaments on colorful ropes and hang them on their necks. Like some women friends, they like to fold the colorful rope into Fang Sheng, which is similar to the auspicious pattern of Chinese knot. It seems that they are going to send their elders. Many people will use colorful threads to embroider and draw all kinds of sun, moon, stars, black animals and other things. However, this kind of embroidery is certainly more complicated than before.
Other customs of exorcism on Dragon Boat Festival
Tiger cloth
In Jiangsu Province, during the Dragon Boat Festival, children will wear tiger shirts, tiger pockets, tiger shoes, and cloth on their backs. The soles of the shoes are embroidered with 'five poisons' and trampled on their feet. Their faces are painted with realgar wine. On their forehead, there is a word' Wang 'written by adults dipped in realgar and cinnabar. They will use tiger power to ward off evil spirits and avoid evil.
Wearing colorful Sachet
There are also some places, during the Dragon Boat Festival, people will hang a string of colorful silk wrapped sachets on their lapels. In the sachets, there are fragrant traditional Chinese medicines such as Angelica dahurica and Atractylodes macrocephala, which have the effect of curing diseases and strengthening the body.
Pomegranate flower
During the Dragon Boat Festival, pomegranate flowers and dragon boat festival flowers are in full bloom. They are very festive and red. In ancient times, women wore pomegranate flowers during the Dragon Boat Festival. Now some people like to put pomegranate flowers, Dragon Boat Festival flowers, calamus, wormwood and other flowers in vases called "duanwujing".
Calamus door
The folk custom of putting calamus and wormwood on the door to avoid evil spirits is because the ancients thought that the May of the lunar calendar was "poison month", and the Dragon Boat Festival was "heavy five", like poisonous snake, scorpion, centipede, toad and gecko, and calamus shaped like a sword. It is said that "five poisons" would not dare to enter the hall.