The Dragon Boat Festival colorful rope customs: 1, in the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival day before the sun came out, adults get up in the sleeping children wrists, ankles, neck tethered to the Dragon Boat Festival line. In some places, the colorful rope can be worn the night before. 2, the colorful rope when the child can not speak, and wear a good child can not be arbitrarily pulled off or discarded colorful rope.
Of course, the five colors of the Dragon Boat Festival colorful rope is not just any five colors on the line, but must be green, white, red, orange and yellow. These five colors from the yin and yang five elements doctrine, respectively, on behalf of wood, gold, fire, water, earth. They also symbolize east, west, south, north and center, and contain the power of the five gods, which can drive away evils and demons.
The five-color silk currently only represents symbolism. Liao and Jin emperors tied five-color silk, and all the five-color silk given to the group of ministers and bureaucrats, also known as the gift of longevity strands. Jiangnan with paper and silk folded rhombus square and then wrapped in colorful silk, in the festival of mutual gifts, women will be called "crease square" holiday ornaments decorated in the chest, to show that women in the female labor achievements.