Dragon Boat Festival is approaching last year's handle monkey how to deal with?

It is best not to throw it away, you can waste and utilize it, move your hands to transform it into something useful, or store it for next year, it is also a good way.

The handle monkey is a Han Chinese Dragon Boat Festival custom it is popular in northeast China and other regions. On the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, clever women, daughters-in-law or grandmothers sew cloth monkeys with red, yellow and white cloths, either single-stitched or double-stitched, i.e., big monkeys carrying small monkeys, and hang them by the door along with moxa leaves and peach tree branches. The shape is simple and clumsy, which makes people love it, and it is believed that it can drive away evil and welcome good luck.

Hanging cloth monkeys is a traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival in the north. Cloth monkey folk have "watchman monkey" said, is a traditional custom of the northern Dragon Boat Festival, the cloth monkey hand holding trumpet handle, meaning that all the plague gods, demons and ominous things all swept out the door.

Also, colorful threads are hung elsewhere. In ancient times, the Dragon Boat Festival was considered the most unlucky and poisonous day of the year. Therefore, during the Dragon Boat Festival, families tied colorful strings around their children's wrists to drive away evil spirits and turn evil into good fortune.

Later, the colorful county was also called Wugu County, a symbol of the abundance of grains. On the first rainy day after the Dragon Boat Festival, the colorful ropes were cut and thrown to float in the rain. This will pray for a year of peace and good luck for your child, as well as a year of good weather.

Expanded Information:

Putting on the door of the monkey is a Han Chinese Dragon Boat Festival custom, popular in the Northeast. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, folk ingenious women, daughter-in-law or grandmothers will red, yellow and white cloth sewn, or single-stitched or double-stitched, that is, the big monkey on the back of the small monkey, with ai leaves, peach branches to hang up the door edge. The shape is simple and clumsy, which makes people love it. People believe it can drive away evil and welcome good luck.