What is the function of colored cloth strips?

1. One is a flag printed with "Wind Horse". It is printed with red or black crossword puzzles and scriptures on rectangular, triangular or square monochrome pieces, the largest of which is more than two feet, and the smallest is more than two feet, which is mainly used for hanging or inserting. Every five colors are a group, hanging array. It can be long or short, depending on the needs of the environment and terrain. The old man is 100 meters long, and as short as a piece of fresh Caiqi Yang, he is inserted on the roofs of grassland tents, farmhouses and urban and rural residents.

2. Only the prayer flags inserted on the roof of each collector should be replaced every year. A new day is calculated according to the Tibetan calendar. Choose a good day after the first day of the Tibetan New Year. This morning, when the sun just rose and shone on the roof, all the people in the hospital were dressed in festive costumes and gathered on the roof to hold the annual grand and joyful "Tuosan" ceremony, replacing the prayer flags, offering sacrifices to the gods and praying for blessing. The other is "Wind Horse" film printed on paper. It is mainly used as a mascot for offering sacrifices to gods, mountain gods, praise gods, dragon gods and Buddhist sacrifices, and can also be hung or posted indoors and outdoors as a group of offerings. The big one is more than a foot and the small one is only a few centimeters. The most common thing is to print the image of the wind horse on a piece of paper four or five centimeters square. This kind of wind horse paper is printed thousands of times, and it is also used as a sacrifice. When the mulberry is simmering, it is sprinkled on the blowing smoke and rises with the cigarette. Every religious festival, there are often fragments of wind horse paper flying around beside the mulberry stove in front of all temples, including Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, and they fall on the ground and pile up into a thick layer.

3. The third category is all kinds of prayer flags, which can be roughly divided into two categories according to color: one is to print prayer flags on a whole piece of white cloth in black or vermilion; One is the same prayer flag as the "Fengmaqi", which is made by alternately combining scriptures and symbols on a blue, white, yellow, red and green cloth.

4. The Wind Horse Flag also has an unusual function, that is, in the case of the death of the living Buddha, every household should tilt the Wind Horse Flag on the roof to show their condolences.