Do adults wear a pair of colorful ropes during the Dragon Boat Festival?

Multicolored rope is the mascot and ornament of Dragon Boat Festival, which has the function of exorcising evil spirits and praying for the beautiful meaning of Najib. Multicolored rope originated from the concept of five elements in ancient China and evolved from the ancient tattoo custom. During the Dragon Boat Festival, heaven and earth are pure and full of righteousness. It is an important custom of the Dragon Boat Festival to exorcise evil spirits with the help of pure Yang in heaven and earth. Among many customs to ward off evil spirits, tying arms with five-color silk thread was once a very popular holiday custom. Spread to later generations, five-color silk has developed into a variety of exquisite ornaments, and its production has become increasingly exquisite, becoming a unique folk art of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Traditionally, thick red, green, yellow, white and black silk threads are twisted into colorful ropes and tied around children's arms or necks. From May 5th, it was not until Qi's birthday that they were untied and burned together with Jin Jun ... It was also said that cutting colorful threads and throwing them away in the rain on the first rainy day after the Dragon Boat Festival would bring good luck for a year. You can wear it with one hand or both hands, and different places will be different.

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Multicolored rope evolved from multicolored thread wrapped around arm. It is an important custom to tie colorful ropes to children during the Dragon Boat Festival, which has a beautiful meaning of praying for Najib. These customs spread to later generations, that is, developed into a variety of beautiful and fun sachets and other accessories. For example, "Tokyo Dream" records that during the Dragon Boat Festival in Kaifeng, Northern Song Dynasty, it is necessary to buy "Bai Suo He Ai (perennial vegetation with fragrant leaves, which can be used as medicine, as a hemostatic agent for oral administration, or as moxibustion. It is also called "osmanthus fragrans and silver-like drum flower".

The custom of wearing sachets evolved from wearing colored lines. Sachet, commonly known as sachet, is also an object that people must wear during the Dragon Boat Festival. The sachet is made of cloth of various colors, and is filled with powder made of clove, vanilla, angelica dahurica, Gan Song, atractylodes macrocephala and realgar. Wearing multicolored thread as a rope on a child's body also serves to ward off evil spirits. The predecessor of longevity lock is "longevity line", also known as "longevity line" Longevity lock is a mascot and ornament. It is actually a kind of metal (mostly silver) ornament, which is in the shape of an ancient lock (dragon) and engraved with the words "long life" and "long life and wealth".

This is an ornament hanging around children's necks. According to the traditional view, as long as this ornament is hung, it can help children eliminate disasters and ward off evil spirits and "lock" their lives. Therefore, many children hang this ornament soon after birth, and some still hang a longevity lock at the ceremony when the newborn turns 100 or one year old until adulthood. The ancients believed that once a child was locked, he could grow up safely without disaster. Longevity lock is more of a blessing from elders to younger generations.

In addition to the custom of wearing colored ropes, there are peppers and tiger's head shoes on the Dragon Boat Festival. Children write the word "Wang" on their heads to stop the children from making trouble, also to drive away disasters and plagues.