Chinese knots are not only beautiful in shape and color, but also named after their shapes and meanings, such as coiled knots, algae-well knots and double-money knots. These reflect China's ancient cultural beliefs and strong religious color, and also reflect people's good wishes to pursue truth, goodness and beauty. Decorate a "long knot" on the hook after the wedding, which means that a pair of lovers will always depend on each other and never separate. Decorate a "happy knot" on jade, which means that contentment is always happy and everything goes well. Decorate a "auspicious knot" on the fan, which represents auspiciousness, good weather, auspiciousness and beauty.
There are a lot of vivid descriptions about the ideographic value of knots by scholars in past dynasties. Looking at China's ancient poems and songs, we can easily find that with the growth of the Chinese nation, the expansion of living space, the increase of life significance and the development of social and cultural systems, knots have surpassed their original practical functions and been passed down from generation to generation. The poem about knots in the Book of Songs: "If you tie a knot yourself, you get 90 points." . This is a scene that describes the mother and daughter getting married, and tells her daughter to pay attention to a lot of manners. This wedding ceremony made "knot" synonymous with ancient marriage.
Zhang Xian, a poet in the Song Dynasty, wrote "The heart is like a double screen with a Qian Qian knot inside", describing a lovelorn girl who misses her old friend and her thoughts are tangled. In classical literature, "knot" has always symbolized the lingering feelings of young men and women. How colorful human emotions are, there are ever-changing "knots". In the long process of evolution, "knot" has been endowed with various emotional wishes by sentimental people.