Why are red, green, white, yellow and blue flags hanging everywhere in Tibet? Are you particularly worried about this?

Prayer flags are common totems in Tibetan areas. Write it on cloth and linen, and then insert it in places such as hilltops, intersections and rivers. Its significance is to use force of nature to recite the scriptures and protect Anji Xiang.

The prayer flags are long and short, and the patterns are different. The longest prayer flag is 3-5 meters long and 60 centimeters wide. It is printed with Buddhist scriptures and bird and beast patterns, and the color is red or white. It is usually hung on prayer flags in front of squares and temples.

Short prayer flags are generally square prayer flags in five colors: blue, white, red, green and yellow, with Buddhist scriptures and bird and beast patterns printed on them. They are often put on a long rope and hung on a sparsely populated mountain pass. The prayer flags hanging on the roof are generally non-sparking banners with five banners of blue, white, red, green and yellow, and a main banner with a monochrome edge below. The prayer flags dancing with the wind are also called style flags.

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The meaning of the color of prayer flags

Blue flag is a symbol of the sky, white flag is a symbol of white clouds, red flag is a symbol of flame, green flag is a symbol of green water, and yellow flag is a symbol of land. In this way, the arrangement order of prayer flags from top to bottom is also fixed, just like the nature with blue sky above and loess below remains unchanged through the ages, so the arrangement order of prayer flags of various colors cannot be changed.

In addition, the most common spark banner has a main banner with a border under it. The color of the main flag is five colors like other flags, and the color of the border is five colors, but it is different from the color of the main flag. This kind of streamer with no words is often hung on the roofs of residential houses, which actually becomes a special symbol of the family living in this house.

The color of the main flag represents the birth year of the most respected elder in this family, or iron or earth or wood or fire or water, white represents iron, yellow represents earth, green represents wood, red represents fire and blue represents water.

The colors of the side decorations of the main flag cannot be matched at will, and must conform to the principle of mutual development in the Tibetan calendar: the main flag is blue and the side decorations are white; The main banner is green and the edge is blue; The main banner is white and the edge is yellow; The main banner is red and the edge is green: the main banner is yellow and the edge is red.

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