The origin of multicolored rope?

Five-color silk thread originated from the concept of five elements in ancient China, or it was the custom of tattooing of ancient Vietnamese in the south in ancient times.

Dragon Boat Festival is a colorful line, which is an ancient custom. Multicolored thread is the mascot and ornament of Dragon Boat Festival, which has the function of exorcising evil spirits and the beautiful meaning of praying for Naji.

In the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the dragon spirit (yang spirit) is strong, and all evils are avoided. Midday is an auspicious day to ward off evil spirits, which leads to a series of customs to ward off evil spirits. Among them, tying the arms with five-color silk thread is one of the customs to ward off evil spirits in the Dragon Boat Festival.

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It is an important custom of Dragon Boat Festival to tie colorful ropes for children, which has a beautiful meaning of praying for Naji. These customs spread to later generations, that is, they developed into many kinds of beautiful and fun sachets and other ornaments.

For example, "Dream of China in Tokyo" recorded that Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty wanted to buy it after the Dragon Boat Festival, "Baisuo and Ai (perennial grass and wood, with fragrant leaves, can be used as medicine, and can be used as hemostatic agent for oral administration, and also for moxibustion. It is also called "Ai Gui or Zanyi) flower and silver-like drum flower". Is to wear accessories.

The custom of wearing sachets evolved from tying colorful threads. The sachet, commonly known as the sachet bag, is also an object that people must wear during the Dragon Boat Festival. The sachet is made of various colors of cloth, and is filled with perfume powder made of clove, vanilla, angelica dahurica, Gan Song, atractylodes rhizome and realgar. It is worn on children with colorful thread as a rope, and its function is also to ward off diseases and ward off evil spirits.

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