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Why do people wrap colorful silk threads around their arms? Women's bun is dressed as a servant with a hairpin cut out of multicolored silk.

Long life is one of the customs of Dragon Boat Festival.

Long life thread is also known as "multicolored silk", "continuation of life", "Bing Bing", "Zhu Su" and so on.

Liang Chao Chung, the Southern Dynasty, wrote in the book "Jingchu year old time": "the five colored silk arm, the name of the soldier, is a small disease and plague......"

It is evident that evil spirits drive away the plague.

It is said that this custom is also related to Qu Yuan just like the Dragon Boat Festival.

When Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the people used zongzi as a sacrifice, but they were often eaten by the dragon. So people came up with a way to make the string of green, yellow, red, white and black silk tied into five strings to fasten the zongzi, so as to avoid the dragon's rush to eat.

Later in the Dragon Boat Festival, children are asked to pray for their children to grow healthily.

"Qing Jiali" volume five has recorded: "in May 5th, the five colored silk is the rope, the arm of the child, the male left female right", and has created a new name "longevity line" for it.

The characteristic ornaments of the Dragon Boat Festival, which began in the Han Dynasty, have experienced more than two thousand years of history. They are different from the times and regions.

It is also the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival in the ancient time to cut the multicolored cotton and make it into the bun.

In Song Dynasty, Guang Ji, Dragon Boat Festival: "(at the age of miscellaneous notes): Dragon Boat Festival scissors are used as small symbols to strive for ingenuity on bun.

The capital is also sold, the name of the hairpin.

"The color line is wrapped around the red lower arm, and the small sign is hanging on the green cloud servant" to show the bustling scene of the Dragon Boat Festival in ancient times.

Whether wearing a long life line or wearing a hairpin, it is the embodiment of Chinese blessing psychology, a product of culture, and an important evidence for clothing and folklore.