Chinese knot originated from the ancient ancestors for tying knots in ropes, has a long history. According to the "easy copulative" : "ancient knotting and rule, saint easy to future generations bibliography deed." Emperor wudi poem "think" in a "double yee belt between the waist, dream for double knot" of the sentence. Visible, in ancient Chinese land, "knot" is dedicating ancestors' gives a specific function, people's respect.
Chinese knot is a textile crafts with national characteristics. It is the biggest characteristic of craft is exquisite, each knot is from beginning to end with a cord, on a pair of hands, with wan, knot, wear, around, around, weaving, smoke and other technique cycle in an orderly fashion. The form is consistent, left and right sides is symmetrical, the more positive and negative, same perfect modelling of fore and aft can connect with each other. At the same time, Chinese knot, also has the characteristic of the Chinese nation symbol of "happy, such as" double sau ", "double happiness", "in extremely good fortune" "carp jump longmen", "live long and proper", "the best", "auspicious for more", etc., will be of great significance in these ornaments to relatives and friends, not only cheery, is also a kind of feeling all idea of blessing.
When weaving Chinese knot, the main material is cord. Generally speaking, used to knot arts cord is about 100 cm long, 4-6 mm thick, many, many different kinds of cord, in the past mainly include silk, cotton, hemp, modern materials increased, nylon, blending is not only the color is more bright beautiful, durability is also greatly improved, whether adopt what kind of cord, according to the purpose of the junction of weaving, the grain used to braided cord the more simple the more good.