Dragon Boat Festival is an important festival in China. It is set up to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan. Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of rowing dragon boats and eating zongzi. There are also some places that bring colorful lines. Do you know why the Dragon Boat Festival should bring colorful lines?
It's very exquisite to wear colorful thread on Dragon Boat Festival. Five color thread is made of five colors of thread. The five colors 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 respectively from the theory of yin and Yang and five elements. At the same time, they symbolize East, West, South, North and middle respectively, and contain five magic powers, which can expel evil spirits, eliminate diseases and strengthen the body, and make people healthy and long-lived. The multicolored thread is made for men's left and women's right when wearing, which can be tied on the hand neck or the foot neck.
In ancient China, five colors were worshipped as auspicious colors. Therefore, in the early morning of the festival, the first important thing for adults to get up is to tie five colored threads on their children's wrists, ankles and necks. When tying the line, children are forbidden to speak. Do not break or discard the five colored thread at will. It can only be thrown into the river in summer when it rains heavily or takes a bath for the first time. It is said that children wearing five colored thread can avoid the harm of poisonous insects like snakes and scorpions; throwing it into the river means that the river will wash away the plague and disease, so that the children can be safe and healthy.
It used to be a very popular festival custom to tie arms with five colored silk. It is recorded in the book of General Customs in Han Dynasty: "on May 5, five colors of silk were given for life extension, which is said to benefit people's lives. In the book of Jingchu's age, it is recorded that 'the arm is tied with colorful silk, which is called Bibing. It's harmless. '
In addition, it is also called long life thread, continuous life thread, Bi Bing Shao, five color thread, Zhu Suo, etc. It is said that Qu Yuan was also the cause of the disaster, which can be eliminated.