Why do you wear five colors on the Dragon Boat Festival? In fact, this custom has a long history! Five color thread, also known as five color thread, is also called five color long life thread in ancient times. Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival for girls, which is China's daughter's day.
It is an ancient custom in Song Dynasty. With red, green, yellow, white and black thick silk thread twisted into colorful rope, tied on the girl's arm, neck, called long life thread, continue life thread. Yu Youding of the Ming Dynasty said in the five day song of the imperial capital that "the five silk life can be continued" refers to this custom.
Han & middot; According to Ying Shao's "customs pass," on May 5, he tied his arms with five colors of silk, which is called long life thread. " Later generations also called it'xuming thread '. Therefore, it has been two thousand years since the Han Dynasty.
In the traditional custom, five colored silk thread was twisted into a common thread and tied to the child's arm. It was tied from May 5 to July 7, the seventh mother's birthday.
There is also a saying that on the first rainy day after the Dragon Boat Festival, cutting the colorful thread and throwing it in the rain will bring you good luck for a year.
Colorful thread is called 'five color line','zhusuo ','baisuo', etc. it is a necessary item for the Dragon Boat Festival.
Shaanxi Customs: on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, colorful silk thread is tied to children's wrists, ankles and necks, which is said to be able to avoid evil spirits and prevent the five poisons from getting close to them. It's not until June 6 that the colored silk is cut off and thrown into the river to be washed away.
According to the legend in Shaanxi, this is related to the deeds of Sun Simiao, the king of medicine. Throwing the thread into the river means that all kinds of diseases have been taken away. It has the nature of sending disasters. Up to now, it is generally used to embroider silk thread. The color is more colorful, and the color is more flexible, ranging from more than ten colors to less than two or three. It's very flexible to use any color. Some people use whatever color they have on hand. On May 5, adults and children will wear colorful ribbons. When they come together, they will be more beautiful and interesting. Of course, people who are more particular still use five color lines.
Yunnan (part of the region) customs: after the Dragon Boat Festival, until the lunar June 24 Torch Festival, cut it off and put it on the torch to burn. When burning, pray for the disaster to be burned together with the 'hundred rope', and the children will be safe and healthy. We don't pay too much attention to the use of thread. Generally, we just need to take out the colored thread in the sewing basket and screw it together.
Every Dragon Boat Festival, every family in the lintel hanging on the five colored silk rope, in order to avoid bad luck; So traditionally, the rope is made of multicolored silk, with silver lock, wrapped around children's arms, in order to pray to ward off evil spirits, eliminate disasters and prolong life!
In the early morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the first thing for adults to do when they get up is to tie the dragon boat line on their wrists, ankles and necks. The child can't speak when tying the thread. Some married men are also forced to wear colored ropes by their wives. Many men worry that they will be laughed at by others and tie them on their ankles quietly.
The five color rope must be tied before the sun comes out, otherwise it will not work. Moreover, the five color rope can not be arbitrarily broken or discarded. It can only be washed away with the rain when it is still at the drain of its courtyard wall in the heavy rain after the Dragon Boat Festival.
The custom of tying colorful ropes on the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the Han Dynasty and has never declined. People regard colorful rope as colorful dragon. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called children's day. May is called poisonous month by the ancients. Tying colorful rope on the Dragon Boat Festival is to protect children from evil spirits. The five colored rope washed away with the water will turn into a little dragon and take away the bad things from you. In this way, troubles and worries will flow away with the rain, which will bring you good luck for a year.
It is reported that in ancient China, five colors were worshipped and regarded as auspicious colors. It used to be a popular festival custom to tie arms with five colored silk. Han Dynasty should help "Customs Tongyi" has a record: on May 5, five colors were given to continue life silk, as the saying goes, to benefit people's lives《 According to the records of the age of Jingchu, the arms were tied with colorful silk. It was named Bibing, which made people not sick and plagued.
It's very particular to wear colorful thread on the Dragon Boat Festival. Multicolored thread is made of five colors. And the five colors are not just any five, but must be green, white, red, black and yellow. According to the theory of Yin Yang and five elements, these five colors represent wood, gold, fire, water and earth. At the same time, they symbolize the East, West, South, North and middle respectively, and contain five powers, which can expel evil spirits, eliminate diseases and strengthen the body, and make people healthy and long-lived.
The multicolored thread is worn on the left side of the male and on the right side of the female, and can be tied on the neck of the hand or the neck of the foot. It is also said that if the child is not one year old, only the red color line.
Although the folk custom stipulates that the first rain of the Dragon Boat Festival is to take off the colored rope and throw it away in the rain, so as to symbolize being away from evil, trouble, disease and sorrow, I hope you don't throw it everywhere. It's better to throw it into the rain water in a quiet place, so as not to affect the environment and increase the workload of sanitation workers.
In addition to the custom of carrying colorful ropes, there are also small chili peppers and tiger shoes on the Dragon Boat Festival, and the character "Wang" is written on the children's heads. In this way, the children are not noisy, but also to drive away disasters and pestilence.