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When do you wear the colorful rope on the Dragon Boat Festival? The implication of colorful rope in

It is a traditional custom to wear colorful ropes on the Dragon Boat Festival, but many people may not understand it now. When do you wear colorful ropes on the Dragon Boat Festival? What is the meaning of the colorful rope on the Dragon Boat Festival? Let's take a look with Xiaobian.

When do you wear the colorful rope on the Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. Many places still keep the traditional custom of wearing colorful ropes. Generally, the colorful ropes of the Dragon Boat Festival should be worn by children before the sun comes out on that day.

1. On the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, before the sun comes out, adults get up and tie the Dragon Boat Festival line to the sleeping children's wrists, ankles and necks. In some places, colorful ropes can be worn the night before.

2. When tying the colorful rope, the child can't speak, and after wearing it, the child can't tear or discard the colorful rope at will.

3. It wasn't untied and burned until the seventh of July, the seventh mother's birthday. In some places, when it rains for the first time after the Dragon Boat Festival, pick it and throw it into the river to wash it away with the rain.

4. It is said that children wearing colorful ropes can avoid the harm of snakes and scorpions, and throw them into the river, which means that the river will wash away the plague and disease, so that children can keep healthy.

5. It's used for children's colorful locks, except for the traditional silver locks. In the old days, every family hung five-color silk ropes on the lintel during the Dragon Boat Festival.

The implication of colorful rope in Dragon Boat Festival

Tying colorful ropes for children is an important custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. It has the beautiful meaning of praying for Naji.

The custom of tying colorful ropes on the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the Han Dynasty and is still alive today. People regard the colorful rope as a 'colorful dragon'. The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the 'children's Day'. May is called the poison moon by the ancients. Tying the colorful rope on the Dragon Boat Festival means to protect children from demons and evil spirits. The five color rope washed away with the water will become a Bruce Lee and take away the bad things from you. In this way, troubles and sorrows will flow away with the rain, which will bring you good luck for a year.

The Dragon Boat Festival is made of colorful silk thread and hung around the child's neck to ward off evil spirits. It is called 'long life strand'. It is also known as' life extension thread ',' avoiding soldiers' thread ',' five color silk ',' long life thread ', etc. In ancient times, may was regarded as a bad month. Because of its hot and steaming weather, diseases were easy to spread. Since the Han Dynasty, that is, around the fifth day of this month, colored silk thread was tied to the arm, which was said to ensure safety and health and avoid the disaster of swordsmen, so it was called. It's very exquisite to wear colorful thread on the Dragon Boat Festival. Multicolored thread is made of thread of five colors.

What color is the colorful rope on the Dragon Boat Festival

The five colors of the colorful rope on the Dragon Boat Festival 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. It also symbolizes the East, West, South, North and middle. It 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 five colors of the five colored silk represent the five elements. The Han Dynasty believed in the theory of yin and Yang of the five elements. The five colors represent the five directions. They are complementary to each other and have a mysterious effect of expelling evil and welcoming good luck. Marked by animals, the East is the green dragon, the south is the rosefinch, the west is the white tiger, the north is the basaltic (turtle and snake), and the center is the Yellow Dragon, all of which are spirit objects. The symbolic significance of five color silk is far more obvious than the actual function, because there is no specific explanation on why these colors can eliminate disasters and diseases. The Liao and Jin emperors made five colored silk and gave it to all the officials and bureaucrats, also known as longevity wisp. In the south of the Yangtze River, paper and silk were used to fold the water chestnut square, and then wrapped with colorful silk to give gifts to each other at festivals. Women decorated their chests with festival decorations called 'fold square' to show women's achievements in female work. Multicolored is composed of five colors such as red and purple.

Multicolored thread, also known as multicolored longevity strand in ancient times. Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival for girls. It is China's daughter's day. Yu Youding of the Ming Dynasty said in the five day song of the imperial capital that "five silk lives can be continued", which refers to this custom. Accordingly, this custom has been inherited from the Han Dynasty for 2000 years.