Feng Ma Qi is a custom handed down from the ancient Xiangxiong era. Many customs and lifestyles of our modern Tibetan compatriots and many unique ways of praying for blessings by Tibetan compatriots:
For example, turn to Shenshan Mountain, worship Shenhu Lake, spread wind and horse flags, hang colorful prayer flags, carve stone scriptures, place mani piles (the tradition of Yongzhong Benjiao is that the stone piles are engraved with bright eight-character mantra: "Hum the horse's plan also leads to Linde"), divination, sacrifice to Sodom, butter sculpture and even use prayer wheels. Are these relics of Yongzhong Benjiao? .
These square, angular and strip-shaped flags are fixed on doorways, ropes, national buildings and branches in an orderly way, swaying between heaven and earth, forming a realm of heaven and earth. Hanging between pavilions and pine trees are strings of colorful flags, which are printed with dense Tibetan spells, scriptures, Buddha statues and mascots. They are the popular "Wind Horse Banner" in Tibetan areas.
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Fengmaqi material
The common wind horse flags are mostly made of cloth, and there are also materials such as flax, silk and homemade paper. Wind horses are square, angular and strip-shaped. , usually 10-60 cm long or square. The wind can be as small as a wisp, or as big as a whole piece of cotton cloth, or hung on a rope in a string, or thrown at will. The wind is blowing, and pieces of wind horses are flying all over the sky against the background of blue sky, snow-capped mountains and bright lakes.
colour
The colors of fengma chess are white, yellow, red, green and blue. Folk songs sang: the yellow banner symbolizes the emergence of lotus, the red banner symbolizes rain and harmony, and the green banner symbolizes future generations; The red flag is inserted in the lawn, as dazzling as antlers; The red banner is inserted on the roof and will prosper forever ... The color of cloth has a clear meaning here, which is the so-called four directions of the universe: west red, east green, south yellow and north green.
In the eyes of Tibetans, white is pure and kind, red is vigorous, green is gentle and peaceful, yellow is kind and knowledgeable, and blue is brave and witty.
Because of the symbolic meaning of color, farmers put five-color prayer flags on the roof during the Spring Festival, some of which are very simplified. Only on a branch with many branches, single-color cloth pieces are hung from top to bottom, and no images are printed on the cloth pieces, and five pieces of one color are hung horizontally. Therefore, the five-color wind horse prayer flags fully represent the god of heaven and earth. Five-color arrow, five-color dakini, five-color wool and four-color protector are all related to this symbolic meaning.
model
The common pattern center of Feng Ma Qi is mostly a vigorous BMW with burning monk's three treasures on its back. The four corners of the ring are engraved with four protectors, which can eliminate the negative effects. They are golden-winged birds symbolizing profundity and perfection, dragons symbolizing penetrating power, tigers symbolizing alertness and lions symbolizing victory.
This composition represents the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, which means that the five elements are cyclical and endless. In addition, there are Buddha statues, eight treasures auspicious, Buddhist scriptures, etc., most of which are printed by woodcut, but there are also stone carvings and metal carvings.
Yongzhongben believes that the five animals in the wind horse symbolize the five components of human beings, namely, the horse symbolizes the soul (or auspiciousness), Peng symbolizes vitality, the tiger symbolizes the body, the dragon symbolizes prosperity, and the lion symbolizes fate. A paragraph or sentence is scattered among them, and the pictures and texts set each other off.
Several traditional workshops and monasteries near Lhasa, Xigaze in Tibet and Dege in Kangqu, are the three printing centers of Fengmaqi. After a phoenix horse was carved (mostly made of wood, but also made of stone and metal), it was printed on white, yellow, red, green and blue cloth, and the phoenix horse was born immediately.
Feng Maqi's printing technology is not complicated, but full of religious seriousness. For example, the cloth, paper and ink used (black ink is preferred in Tibetan areas before and after) must be clean, and the wood blocks must be smoked and mulberry before they can be used again. Artisans should also burn incense and chant Buddhist scriptures before work, and try to choose a house facing southeast as a workshop, otherwise it will damage the sacred power of Feng Ma Qi. ?
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Fengmaqi