What is the colorful thread before the Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival was originally a girl's festival, and it is China's Daughter's Day.

Multicolor consists of five colors: red, yellow, blue, green and purple. Multicolor in Ming Dynasty consists of red, yellow, green and purple underglaze colors and underglaze blue and white.

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.

Colorful lines are called "five-color lines", "Zhu Suo" and "Bai Suo", which are essential items for the Dragon Boat Festival. Shaanxi custom, on the day of Dragon Boat Festival, tie colored silk thread on children's wrists, ankles and necks, which is said to ward off evil spirits and prevent the five poisons from approaching each other. This colorful silk thread will not be cut until "June 6" and thrown into the river and washed away by the water.

Shaanxi legend believes that this is related to the story of Sun Simiao, the drug king. Throwing the flower thread into the river means taking all the diseases away, which has the nature of sending disasters. Today, silk thread is generally used for embroidery, with many colors, bright colors and flexible colors, ranging from a dozen to two or three. What color to use is also very flexible, and some people use whatever color they have at hand. On May 5th, adults and children will wear colorful ribbons. Together, they will look better than anyone and be interesting. Of course, people who are more particular still use five-color lines.