The meaning of yellow ribbon: mourning, missing, praying, hoping and expecting the safety of relatives.
What the colors of the hand rope represent.
Blue rope represents career, white rope represents luck, black rope represents evil spirits, red rope represents health, yellow rope represents marriage, pink rope represents love, golden rope represents financial resources, purple rope represents wisdom and green rope represents stability.
The five colors of the five-color silk represent the five elements. In the Han Dynasty, they believed in the theory of five elements of yin and yang, and the five colors represented five directions, which had the mysterious function of exorcising evil spirits and welcoming good luck.
Blue is wood, representing the East, red is fire, representing the South, yellow is earth, representing the Central Committee, white is gold, representing the West, and black is water, representing the North. Animals are symbols, with Qinglong in the east, Suzaku in the south, White Tiger in the west, Xuanwu (tortoise and snake) in the north and Huanglong in the middle, all of which are spiritual objects. The symbolic significance of five-color silk to ward off evil spirits and plagues is far more obvious than the actual function, because there is no specific explanation why these colors can eliminate disasters and diseases.
It can be seen that this is a magical thing with magic and symbolic significance in folk beliefs, which is obviously different from the medical functions used by mugwort, calamus and realgar in festivals, purely for the needs of folk beliefs and good luck. On the other hand, however, the five-color silk of the festival fully shows the significance of congratulations.
Children tie their necks, hands, feet and wrists with colored silk, commonly known as long-life rope, long-life rope, century-old rope and health rope.