1, you just have to go to Tibet, whether it is the golden dome of the glorious temples, or the towers of the common people; and no matter whether it is the rich and bustling Lhasa market, or in the remote mountainous intersection of the bridge; no matter whether it is in the top of the mountain passes, or in the river riverside riverside roadside forks. Where it is considered to have the spirit of the place can be seen strings of five colors. The brilliantly written Tibetan flags are dancing in the wind, and from afar, they look like swaying flowers and dancing feet of fairies, which is a great sight to see. People who have never been to Tibet before will be amazed and ask: what is this? If you've been to Tibet, you'll know that it's called a "warp streamer".
2, in the wind fluttering streamers, for thousands of years, it has supported how many poor Tibetans beautiful and unrealizable dreams; now, but also contains the Tibetans here on the magnificent hometown of unlimited attachment and beautiful vision, looking forward to the desire for happiness and well-being of the more with the wind rise. Yes, the new year has begun, the happy life is like the wind in the flag of the scripture has opened a new chapter.
3, that one after another in the wind fluttering streamers, so how many Tibetan compatriots soul, it is the strong nation's unique spiritual character. If you don't visit the scene, you can't experience its heart-stopping charm; if you don't have pious veneration, you can't know its y embedded national sentiment.
4, Tibet's sacred mountains, sacred lakes almost all have with the wind fluttering streamers. Sutra streamers are generally hung on top of mountains, intersections, lakeside or on the roof, is the kind of printed with a lot of scriptures and cut strips of fabric, blue, white, red, yellow, green, five colors * even as a string, symbolizing the earth, water, fire, wind, air, the five major elements. Colorful scripture streamers "hula-hula" fluttering in the wind, sent people's devout prayers.
5. The reason why they are called sutra streamers is that these streamers have Buddhist scriptures printed on them, and in the view of the people who believe in Tibetan Buddhism, one fluttering of the sutra streamers dancing in the wind is chanting sutra once, conveying one's wish to God and praying for God's blessing. In this way, the scripture streamers become the link between the gods and people. Where the streamers are means where the gods are, and where people pray to the gods. The streamers hold the good wishes of the people.
6. Whenever I encounter frustration and confusion in my life, I close my eyes, raise the colorful streamers in my heart, give up everything, immerse myself in my dreams, and enjoy the sun in my heart. Thus, my heart dances with the fluttering streamers and my soul burns with the flaming streamers.
7, the Tibetan language called "Lunda". Is a kind of cotton, linen, silk and other materials made of rectangular color flag, *** blue, white, red, green, yellow five colors, color sequence can not be misplaced, respectively, to symbolize the sky, auspicious clouds, flames, rivers and the earth. Tibetan Buddhism also gives five colors for the five Buddhas and five kinds of wisdom meaning. Some scholars even think that the five-color sutra streamers are also integrated into the ancient five elements of the Chinese nation, representing gold, wood, water, fire and earth, respectively.
8, I stood in a high hillock, long stood on the side of these streamers. This speechless streamers, years and years quietly stand in this desolate plateau, with the snowy plateau of the blue sky, white clouds, in the plateau of the strong wind blowing, constantly up and down, like the Tibetan people never stop chanting, praying. I can not help but subconsciously gently touch it with my hand, recognizing those long time wind and rain and more and more mottled traces of the Tibetan scriptures, the heart gradually grew up a wave of unspeakable feelings:
9, Tibet's sacred mountains, sacred lakes are almost all with the wind fluttering streamers. Warp streamers are generally hung on top of mountains, intersections, lakeside or on the roof, is the kind of printed with many scriptures and cut into long strips of fabric, blue, white, red, yellow, green, five colors in a string, symbolizing the earth, water, fire, wind, air, the five major elements. Colorful streamers "hula" in the wind fluttering, sent people devout and beautiful prayers
10, these colorful streamers, the color has a fixed meaning. The blue streamer is a symbol of the sky, the white streamer is a symbol of white clouds, the red streamer is a symbol of the flame, the green streamer is a symbol of green water, and the yellow streamer is a symbol of the land. In this way, it also fixes the order of the sutra streamers from top to bottom, just as the nature of blue sky on the top and yellow earth on the bottom remains unchanged for ages, the order of the various colors of the sutra streamers cannot be changed either.
11, the traditional sutra streamers are divided into white sutra streamers and five-color sutra streamers (sutra streamers composed of five colors: blue, white, yellow, red and green). White is the main, according to the introduction of the various colors of the colored sutra streamers are fixed,, and can not be changed at random, the order of arrangement of the various colors is also strictly prescribed, and must be in accordance with the order of the five Buddha Department of conformity, there can not be any error. The uppermost part of the five-colored sutra streamers is blue, symbolizing the blue sky; coming down is white, symbolizing the white clouds; coming down is red, symbolizing the flame; and the lowest part is yellow, symbolizing the land or earth.
12, these scripture streamers are generally cut from one-foot-square colored cloth, in the order of yellow, green, white, red, blue every five pieces of a string, sewn on a fresh clean tree branch or hanging on the root of the horizontal rope. The colors of the sutra streamers all have fixed meanings. The blue streamer is a symbol of the sky, the white streamer is a symbol of white clouds, the red streamer is a symbol of flames, the green streamer is a symbol of green water, and the yellow streamer is a symbol of the land. In this way, it also fixes the order in which the scripture streamers are arranged from top to bottom, and just as the nature of blue sky on the top and yellow earth on the bottom has remained unchanged for ages, the order in which the various colors of scripture streamers are arranged cannot be changed either.
13, I stood on the eleventh floor of the home living room in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, see the distant snow-covered botanical gardens, see in front of the staggered roofs of the buildings are also covered with snow, suddenly the distant fluttering of the red colored flags into my eyes, looking at the view in front of my eyes to become colorful, ah, into the five-colored scripture streamers, which is thirty years ago to see the scripture streamers, my heart and the scripture with the streamers fluttering up, my heart and the scripture streamers together. Perhaps this is a spiritual induction, the first day of the Tibetan New Year this year happens to be the first day of this year's Spring Festival, it is simply too magical coincidence, the Tibetan scripture streamers hinted at me in advance.
14, the first time on the plateau let me feel excited! Curious and surprised by everything! Especially see the grassland raised, mountains, roadsides, lakeside, pagodas, Tibetan houses ...... The fluttering streamers are an impulse to shoot it all down. In my eyes: it's the streamers that dress up the plateau charming, add softness to the pale mountains, and make the golden grassland colorful in autumn ...... And then to the plateau, the purpose of the streamers and then not just the color of the tone, I know that behind each streamer contains a wish, a blessing.
15, the phenomenon of sutra streamers, both a long history and rich cultural connotations, the sutra streamers is the Tibetan people's faith in the world of the factual record, it sends the Tibetan people on the future of the world's longing and the fate of the prayers. In their minds, the wind blowing the scripture streamers is equal to chanting the scriptures to the God who dominates heaven and earth. The five-colored scripture streamers floating on the colorful clouds are the prana of gold, the essence of wood, the soul of water, the spirit of fire, and the nature of earth. The fluttering sutra streamers are the messengers of the wind, the way of existence and the home of faith for all things on the plateau. The fluttering scripture streamers between the earth and the dome of the sky are the language of communication between the earth and heaven, and the flame of man and god **** dance, which constitutes the mood of connecting the sky to the ground.
16, the scripture streamers are long and short, and the patterns are different. The longest scripture streamers are 3-5 meters long and 60 centimeters wide, which are printed with Buddhist scriptures and bird and animal designs, either red or white in color, and are generally hung sideways in the square, in front of the temple on the scripture streamer poles. The short sutra streamers are generally blue, white, red, green and yellow colors of the square sutra streamers, printed with Buddhist scriptures and bird and animal designs, often worn on a long rope, hung horizontally in the sparsely populated mountain passes. The sutra streamers hanging above the roofs are usually star-fire wordless streamers, consisting of five blue-white-red-green-yellow streamers on top and a main streamer with a single-color border on the bottom.
17, who has been to Tibet, who will not forget the Potala Palace's golden dome, the Great Show Monastery of the Tangfan Alliance monument, Songtsen Gampo and Princess Wencheng's statue, Lopblinka Han Chinese characteristics of the birds and flowers, as well as the holy snow-capped mountains of Mt. Everest, the turquoise blue Namucuo the world's highest salt-water heavenly lake of the beauty of the ...... people on Tibet! There are countless kinds of fantasies, for Tibet's mysterious and sacred also have different definitions, but I am fond of the Tibetan streamers. It has become a unique and distinctive symbol of the natural and humanistic environment of the Tibetan area, as have the glittering snowy peaks, the green carpet of meadows, the vast expanse of desert fields, and the gilded temples.
18, you see, that streamer, colorful and auspicious, has achieved the right result. However, you see, he is still meditating and practicing, negative his mission. You see, the believers simmering sang smoke, from the colorful streamers in the interpretation of the wisdom of the offbeat. However, you see, those listening to Zen grass is still so small and green. Are the questions and prayers of all beings too heavy? Can't the winds of the wilderness blow away the tears of the world? Why is your asceticism scattered in mountains, rivers, lakes, meadows and canyons? Why do you bear the burden of the world alone?
19, in the vast Tibetan area, everywhere can be seen hanging in the mountain passes, bayous, bridgeheads, homes, tents, roofs, treetops, and temples and other places are considered to have the spirit of the place of the colorful streamers. It with silver glittering snowy peaks, green carpet of meadows, vast vast desert field, the same as the golden temples, become a unique and distinctive symbol of the natural and human environment of the Tibetan area. The reason why they are called sutra streamers is that these streamers have Buddhist scriptures printed on them, and in the view of people who believe in Tibetan Buddhism, to flutter the sutra streamers dancing in the wind is to recite scriptures once, conveying people's wishes to God and praying for God's blessing without stopping. The sutra streamers are the link between God and people, and they hold people's good wishes in their hearts.
20, whether people celebrate birthdays, New Year's festivals, are to be inserted to hang colorful streamers, symbolizing the sky, earth, people, livestock harmony and good luck; by the water and grass and live in the pastoralists, every migration, after pitching a tent, the first thing is to tie up the streamers, in order to pray around the permission of the gods and blessings. Pilgrims trekking in the desert and wild mountains, but also must hang a striking banner, praying to avoid getting lost in the disaster. Riverside lakeside people all over the inserted streamers, to show the tree spirit of the water god's reverence and worship. The people living in the forests and mountains hang up the sutra streamers to show their devotion and offerings to the mountain gods and rock gods. In the holy sites and ancient temples hanging colorful wind streamers, expressed to the gods and Buddha ancestral souls and selected philosopher sage worship and salute.