Dragon Boat Festival hand rope weaving

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional folk festival in China, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. This festival pays attention to the meaning of "promoting red and avoiding epidemic, praying for health and praying for disaster relief". In this festival, people not only eat zongzi, but also carry out some traditional custom activities, such as dragon boat racing, making zongzi, hanging calamus and eating realgar wine. Among them, weaving hand ropes for the Dragon Boat Festival is also one of the important custom activities.

Dragon Boat Festival hand rope, also known as five-color hand rope, consists of five different colors of rope. There are many ways to weave hand ropes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Here is a simple and easy-to-learn knitting method.

Step 1: Prepare five ropes of different colors.

Step 2: Overlap the ropes into a cross in turn, then buckle one end of the rope and tighten it by hand.

Step 3: Count the first rope clockwise, bend it into an arc to the upper right, pass through a hole in the middle, and then pass through the same hole again from the lower right.

Step 4: Next, continue to bend each string into an arc clockwise, pass through the middle hole, and then pass back to the same hole from the lower right.

Step 5: When all five ropes pass through the hole in the middle, fasten the thread head at the other end and tighten it by hand.

Step 6: After the completion, tie the prepared Dragon Boat Festival hand rope on your wrist and pray for health, peace and good luck.

Although the hand rope weaving of Dragon Boat Festival looks simple, it needs care and patience. Traditional folk activities are not only a cultural heritage, but also a spiritual heritage, which makes us feel the profoundness of folk wisdom and culture. The compilation of hand ropes for the Dragon Boat Festival can not only experience the charm of traditional culture, but also exercise patience and manual skills, which is a very meaningful activity.