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What is the significance of Ronda paper?

The meaning is to pray that the whole family will be safe and go smoothly throughout the year.

Wind horse paper is made of five-color square paper with horses and scriptures printed on it, also called "Londa". Prayer flags are hung here at the beginning of every new year, and people passing by scatter the five-color wind horse paper. The method is to use the wind to flutter prayer flags and wind horse paper.

Lunda is a transliteration from Tibetan and is a "small piece of paper" used for religious sacrifices and prayers.

A square, palm-sized piece of paper with black religious patterns printed on it, in the same five colors as hada (red, yellow, white, green and blue, one piece of paper has one color). Use tossing method and let it blow in the wind.

By the way, "Long" means wind in Tibetan. Because the wind can blow the prayer flags, the sound of Lunda being blown by the wind also sounds like the sound of reciting scriptures, so it is a very sacred and beautiful ceremony, and a dialogue with the gods.

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The Fengma Banner is a custom passed down from the ancient Xiangxiong era. There are many customs and lifestyles and many unique ways of praying: such as turning to the sacred mountain, Worship the gods at the lake, spread the wind horse flags, hang colorful prayer flags, carve stone scriptures and place Mani piles.

The eight-character mantra: "Om Zhimou Yesalinde" stone pile), perform divination, offer torma plates, butter flowers, and even use prayer wheels, etc.

These are the customs left by the Yongzhong religion. These small square, angular, and strip-shaped flags are fixed in an orderly manner on door heads, ropes, clan buildings, and branches. They flutter and sway between the earth and the sky, forming a realm that connects the earth to the sky.