What colors should be used for the colored rope of Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China. Many areas have the custom of wearing colored ropes for children during the Dragon Boat Festival. Multicolored ropes are woven with ropes of five colors. Wearing them on children's wrists, ankles or necks means longevity, health protection, good luck and so on, so they are also called longevity elves. Multicolored ropes should be in five colors: blue, red, yellow, white and black, representing five elements and five parties, and should not be used indiscriminately. Here's how to weave colored ropes. Let's have a look. 1. What is a multicolored rope?

Multicolored rope, also known as long life thread, multicolored silk, multicolored silk, etc. , the mascot and ornament of the Dragon Boat Festival, evolved from the custom of ancient tattoos. In ancient times, people believed in the theory of yin and yang and five elements. The implication of wearing colored ropes representing five elements on Dragon Boat Festival is to ward off evil spirits, protect children's health and bring good luck to children. Legend has it that the custom is to tie colorful ropes around children's arms or necks on Tanabata until they are untied and burned, or throw colorful ropes in the rain and float away on the first rainy day after Dragon Boat Festival, which can bring good luck and bless children's healthy growth.

2. What colors are used for the colored rope of the Dragon Boat Festival?

The colored ropes used in the Dragon Boat Festival are red, blue, yellow, white and black. These five colors can't be changed at will, because in ancient times, these five colors were considered as auspicious colors. They represented the five elements and five orientations, and they interacted with each other, which had the mysterious effect of exorcising evil spirits and welcoming auspiciousness. These five colors should be arranged in the order of green, red, yellow, white and black.

Cyan five elements belong to wood, representing the east and corresponding to Qinglong; The red five elements belong to fire, representing the south and corresponding to Suzaku; The yellow five elements belong to the soil, representing the central government and corresponding to Huanglong; The white five elements belong to gold, representing the west and corresponding to the white tiger; The black five elements belong to water, representing the north and corresponding to Xuanwu. In the theory of Yin-Yang and Five Elements, these five colors represent gold, fire, water, earth and wood respectively. At the same time, it also symbolizes the divine power in five directions: east, west, north and south.

Three, the Dragon Boat Festival colorful rope weaving method

It is an important custom to tie colored ropes for children during the Dragon Boat Festival, which has a beautiful meaning of praying for Najib. On the Dragon Boat Festival, the first thing adults do after getting up is to tie colorful ropes around the wrists, ankles or necks of sleeping children. Children can't talk when they are tied with ropes. So how do you weave colored ropes? Here are some common knitting methods:

1, snake knot weaving method

This is a relatively simple knitting method. Instead of five ropes, buy a rope with five kinds of gradient colors and fold the rope in half. The right thread winds clockwise around the left thread from back to front, and the left thread winds counterclockwise from back to front, and then passes through both ends of the right thread tension thread to form the first knot. In this way, several knots are wound circularly and then connected end to end, making a beautiful colored rope.

2, loop knitting method

Straighten one end of the line and wrap the other end in a circle on a straight line, from the starting point to the end point. The number of laps depends on the need. Put the original straightened end into the ring, pull it out and tighten it. If there are beads, they can also be mixed in the rope and woven at the intersection of colors.

3. Five-strand knitting method

Weave five strands with five threads of different colors from the middle, which can be folded in half when buttonholing. Take a thread and wind it to make a button. At this time, each color has two lines. Then prepare the same color thread to fold in half, and weave 4 strands with the same color respectively; At this time, take another thread and tie a flat knot on the previously braided four strands. Pay attention to weaving five four-strand braids on the same plane, tie a double-thread big knot at the end, and cut off or burn the excess.