The implication of hanging brooms on Dragon Boat Festival
In some areas, people believe that ghosts from the underworld will wander among the dead during the Dragon Boat Festival, bringing bad luck to the people they meet, while wormwood means praying, and hanging a broom means driving away the "broom star" and driving away bad luck. Although the customs in each region are different, there is a common good wish, that is, I hope that the family will be happy and safe every day.
The implication of hanging other pendants on Dragon Boat Festival
bottle gourd
"Twelve Scenes of Beijing Folk Songs" said: "In May, at the end of the year, children are happy, mugwort leaves are inserted in front of the door, people change clothes, and gourds are nailed to the side." The method of this kind of gourd is to make cotton into a small waisted gourd as big as a chopstick head, and then wrap it with colorful wool. Then string the small gourds with colored threads and nail them on the girl's clothes. It is said that they can drive away plagues and ward off evil spirits.
satchel
The custom of hanging sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival has lasted for thousands of years. "Five poisons coming out of Dragon Boat Festival" means that all kinds of poisons come out in midsummer, not only poisonous insects such as poisonous snakes, insects, mosquitoes and ants, but also poisonous "qi" that causes diseases, such as summer evil, damp evil and epidemic diseases. But as long as you hang a sachet full of herbs, you can protect yourself from getting sick.
This is a colorful dragon tail.
This is an ancient custom, which existed in the Song Dynasty. Red, green, yellow, white and black thick silk threads are twisted into colored ropes and tied around the girl's arms and neck, which are called long life strands and long life strands. It is this custom that Yu Youding, an Amin, said that "five lives can be sustained" in "Song of the Imperial Capital for Five Days". The colored thread was mysteriously tied to the arm. Adults said it was to make good luck and drive away disasters. Multicolored thread is often prepared by aunt or sister on the first day and twisted into a rope.