Dragon Boat Festival colorful rope origin and symbolism

The origin of the colorful rope: the five-color silk thread originated in China's ancient concept of the five elements, or for the ancient times of the ancient Yue people in the south of the ancient times of the tattoo custom. It is an ancient custom to tie the colorful threads on the Dragon Boat Festival.

The colorful thread is the Dragon Boat Festival auspicious objects and ornaments, with the role of warding off evil spirits, as well as praying for good luck and good fortune. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival flying dragon in the sky, the dragon gas (Yang Qi) is strong, all the evil are avoided, the Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day to ward off the evil of the yin, which gave rise to a series of customs to ward off the evil, including the five-color thread tie arm, is the Dragon Boat Festival to ward off the evil of the customs of a.

The Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day to ward off the evil of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Colorful ropes: Tying colorful ropes for children is an important custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, which has a good meaning of praying for good luck and good fortune.

Duanwu Festival with colorful silk threads prepared into a rope, hung around the neck of the child to avoid evil, known as the "long life strand". Also known as "renewed life wisp", "to avoid military bindings", "five-color silk", "long life life line" and so on.

Anciently, May is a bad month, the weather is hot and steamy, disease is easy to epidemic, since the Han Dynasty, that is, before and after the month of heavy five, colorful silk threads tied to the arm, said to protect the peace and health, but also said that the disaster can be avoided, so it is known as the knife and the soldier. Dragon Boat Festival wear colorful thread is very delicate. The colorful thread is woven with five colors of silk thread.

Duanwu Festival customs

1, eat zongzi

Zongzi as sacrificial offerings, as early as the Spring and Autumn period has appeared, but zongzi was formally designated as a Dragon Boat Festival food, is in the Jin Dynasty, the period, package zongzi raw materials in addition to glutinous rice, but also added the Chinese traditional medicine Yizhi Ren, cooked zongzi called "Yizhi zongzi".

2, tethered five-color thread

Traditional Chinese culture, a symbol of the five sides of the five elements of the five colors "green, red, white, black, yellow" is regarded as an auspicious color. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, children tie five-colored threads around their wrists and ankles to protect their health.

3, drink xionghuang wine

Duanwu drink xionghuang wine custom, ancient times in the Yangtze River Basin region is extremely prevalent. As the old saying goes, "If you drink Xionghuang wine, all the diseases will be far away".