Why do you want to bring colored ropes on the Dragon Boat Festival?

Multicolored lines are called multicolored longevity lines in ancient times. Dragon Boat Festival was originally a girl's festival, and it is China's Daughter's Day. This is an ancient custom in the Song Dynasty, wearing colorful immortal wisps. Red, green, yellow, white and black thick silk threads are twisted into colored ropes and tied around the girl's arms and neck, which are called long life strands and long life strands. It is this custom that Yu Youding, an Amin, said that "five lives can be sustained" in "Song of the Imperial Capital for Five Days". Han Yingshao's "Customs Pass" reads: "On May 5, five-color silk was tied to the arm, which was called long life." Later generations are also called "extending life". Accordingly, this custom lasted for two thousand years from the Han Dynasty. In traditional customs, the five-color silk thread is twisted into a general shape and tied to the child's arm. It was not until Qi's birthday on July 7th that he untied it and burned it with the golden coffin. It is also said that cutting colorful threads and throwing them in the rain on the first rainy day after the Dragon Boat Festival will bring you good luck for a year.

In our place, we have been using a very familiar grass, which is long and thin. Few people use ropes! Immortal fire, I hate wearing ornaments on the Dragon Boat Festival. It is also called life-sustaining line, lifeline, life-prolonging line and longevity line. It is also called "Bai Suo", "Little Ice" and "Colored Line" with different names and basically the same shape and function.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, it is made of five-color silk, or hung at the door, or worn around the child's neck, or tied on the child's arm, or hung on the bed curtain, cradle and other places. It is said that it can avoid disasters, protect health and prolong life. This festival has five shapes: simple five-color silk threads are combined into a rope and tied to the arm; Decorate Suk Kim ornaments on colorful ropes and hang them around your neck; Colorful ropes are folded into squares and decorated on the chest; Colorful knots are worn by portraits; Embroider the sun, moon, stars, black beasts and other things with colored silk thread to pay tribute to the elders. This custom began in the Han Dynasty.

Ying Shao wrote "Lost Customs" in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "In the afternoon, tie your arms with colorful silks to avoid ghosts and soldiers, so that people will not get sick. One is a long-lived ghost fire, and the other is a soldier. " Later, they gradually got used to it, until it was near modern times. Qing Fu Chaton's "Yanjing Years" recorded the custom at that time: "Every time the sun goes down, those who are clever in the boudoir will make tigers, zongzi, gourds, cherries and mulberries with colored threads and hang them on their hair pins or tie them on the backs of children." Among them, in the Tang and Song Dynasties, the imperial court gave ministers things like saving things. In the first year of Xingyuan in Tang Daizong, the court gave one hundred rope axes. "Book of Rites XV": "The day before, the golden thread was given an official life extension, and the colored thread was given an official life extension. Wear it on holidays. "