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Colorful rope weaving steps

Colorful rope weaving steps are as follows:

1. Prepare the colorful thin rope. Wrap it around your hand and measure the length of your wrist. Find the position you think is suitable, and pinch the position when you find it.

2, with this position as the center point, two fingers each crossed a distance, and then one side of the finger does not move, the other side of the finger unidirectional twisting of the hand of the line. Then merge the two sides of the fingers pinched together, and the twisted thread in the center will automatically twist.

3. Tie a knot so that the clasp of the bracelet is ready. Two fingers pinch the remaining thread and the clasp area respectively. Hold them in the little thumb of one hand, and then twist the threads in your hands outward together with both hands, as if you were using them as an axis to wrap the two threads of the chosen color.

4, wrapped, tighten, push in the direction of the buckle, it will form this, and finally in accordance with the size of their hands to choose, and then tie the knot. Finally according to the size of their hands, and then tie the knot.

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Colorful rope, also known as colorful silk, five-color silk, etc., the Han Chinese festival customs, generally in the Dragon Boat Festival to wear five-color silk to ward off evil spirits, and also pray for blessings and good fortune of the good significance. Colorful rope from the evolution of China's ancient concept of the five elements.

The Dragon Boat Festival, heaven and earth pure yang is very strong, with the help of heaven and earth pure yang is an important custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, in the many customs to ward off evil spirits, to five-color silk thread arm, was a very popular festival custom. Passed to the later generations, the five-color silk that developed into many kinds of beautiful ornaments, the production is also becoming more and more sophisticated, become the Dragon Boat Festival unique folk art.

Traditional custom, with red, green, yellow, white and black threads rolled into colorful threads, tied to the arms or neck of small children, since the 5th of May tied up, until the birthday of the seventh night of the "seven mother mother", only to be dismantled together with the gold kozo burned. There is also a saying that in the first rainy day after the Dragon Boat Festival, the colorful threads cut down and thrown in the rain to float away, will bring a year of good luck.

The five colors of the five-color silk represents the five elements, the five-color thread of the custom from China's ancient concept of the five elements, the ancient reverence for the five colors, to the five colors for the auspicious color. The five colors represent the five directions, which are mutually reinforcing and have a mysterious effect of driving away evil and welcoming good fortune.

Cyan is wood, representing the east, red is fire, representing the south, yellow is earth, representing the center, white is gold, representing the west, black is water, representing the north. Using the four elephants as symbols, the East is the Green Dragon, the South is the Vermilion Bird, the West is the White Tiger, the North is the Xuanwu (Tortoise and Serpent), and the Center is the Yellow Dragon, all of which are spiritual beings.

The colorful threads are not randomly woven in five colors, they must be white, red, black, yellow, and green (blue); because in the yin and yang doctrine of the five elements, these five colours represent gold, fire, water, earth, and wood; and also symbolize east, west, south, north, and south, and contain the divine power of the five directions.