How much do you know about the custom of wearing colored ropes?

1. Every family wears colored silk ropes for their children during the Dragon Boat Festival to ward off evil spirits. Therefore, traditionally, five-color silk ropes are woven with silver locks and wrapped around children's arms to pray for evil spirits, disaster elimination and longevity. Multicolored rope, worn by men left and women right, can be tied around the neck or ankle. Another person said that if a child is less than one year old, he will only wear red thread.

On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, the first important thing for adults after getting up is to tie colorful ropes around the wrists, ankles and necks of sleeping children. The child can't talk when the thread is tied. There are also some married men who are forced to wear colored ropes by their wives. Many men are worried about others watching jokes and quietly tie them to their ankles.

3. The time of this five-color rope is particular, so it must be tied before the sun comes out, otherwise it will not work, and the five-color rope cannot be broken or discarded at will. If the five-color rope is broken, it can only be thrown into the drainage ditch of the courtyard wall after the Dragon Boat Festival and washed away with the rain.

The five-color rope will not be untied until Qi's birthday on July 7th, and it will be burned together with the golden coffin. In some places, when it rains for the first time after the Dragon Boat Festival, it is picked and thrown into the river to be washed away with the rain.

Some female friends like to fold colored rope into Fang Sheng, which is an auspicious pattern similar to Chinese knot. For example, many people will embroider various objects with colorful lines, such as the sun, the moon, stars, black animals and so on. But this kind of embroidery is definitely more complicated than before.