During the Dragon Boat Festival, you will see many people's wrists tied with multicolored lines. You don't know what the multicolored lines mean. And it seems to say that we should wait until the first rain after the Dragon Boat Festival to untie the multicolored thread into the water. So you know why the Dragon Boat Festival takes five colored lines?
Do you know why~
The five colors are red, yellow, blue, green and purple. The five colors of Ming Dynasty are composed of red, yellow, green and purple overglaze colors and underglaze blue and white.
Multicolored thread, also known as multicolored long life thread in ancient times. The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival for girls. It was the Chinese daughter's day.
It's an ancient custom in Song Dynasty. Use red, green, yellow, white, black thick silk thread to twist it into a colorful rope, which is tied on the girl's arm and neck. It's called long life thread and continuous life thread. In the song of five days in the imperial capital by Yu Youding, a man of Ming Dynasty, it is said that "five silk lives can be continued", which refers to this custom.
According to the book of Customs by Ying Shao of Han Dynasty: 'on May 5, it was named long life thread with five colors of silk as its arm. Later generations are also called 'life extending wisps'. According to this, it has been two thousand years since this custom directly inherited the Han Dynasty.
It is a traditional custom to take five colored silk threads and twist them on the children's arms. From May 5 to July 7, the seventh mother's birthday, they were untied and burned together with the golden papyrus.
Also, on the first rainy day after the Dragon Boat Festival, cutting the colorful thread and throwing it in the rain will bring you a year of good luck
The colorful strands are called "five colored threads", "Zhu Suo" and "Bai Suo", which are necessary items for the Dragon Boat Festival. It's a custom in Shaanxi Province that on the day of Dragon Boat Festival, colorful silk strands are tied to the wrists, ankles and necks of children. It's said that they can avoid evil spirits and prevent five poisons from approaching. This kind of colorful silk will not be cut until June 6, and it will be thrown into the river to be washed away. According to the legend of Shaanxi Province, it is related to the deeds of Sun Simiao, the king of medicine. When the flower thread is thrown into the river, all diseases are taken away. The nature of sending disaster has developed to the present, the silk thread used for embroidery is generally used, with many and gorgeous colors, flexible colors, more than 10 colors, less than 23. It is also very flexible to use any color. Some people use whatever color they have on hand. On May 5, adults and children will wear colorful threads. When they come together, they will be more beautiful and interesting than others. Of course, people who pay more attention to it still use five colored thread.