The warping sail can also be called the wind horse flag, which is a custom passed down from the ancient Zhang Xiong era. There are many customs and lifestyles of modern Tibetan compatriots and many unique ways of praying for Tibetan compatriots: such as turning to the sacred mountain, worshiping the sacred lake, scattering wind horse flags, hanging colorful prayer flags, carving stone scriptures, placing Mani piles (Yong Zhongben) The religious traditions are stone piles engraved with the eight-character mantra of light: "Om Majimou Yesalinde"), doing divination, worshiping torma plates, butter flowers, and even using prayer wheels, etc. These are all the remaining customs of Yongzhong's religion.
These square, angular, and strip-shaped flags are orderly fixed on door heads, ropes, clan buildings, and branches. They float and sway between the earth and the sky, forming a kind of connection between the earth and the sky. The realm of heaven. Strings of colorful flags hung between pavilions and pine trees are densely printed with Tibetan mantras, scriptures, Buddha statues, and mascot graphics. They are the "Wind Horse Flags" that are popular in Tibetan areas.
In Tibetan areas, small flags with scripture patterns printed on them and tied to ropes can be seen in temples and houses at the intersections of mountains and rivers. It is called "Londa" in Chinese, and some people call it "horse sacrifice", "luma", "prayer flag" and "prayer flag". However, people are more accustomed to calling it "wind horse flag" because " "Long" means wind in Tibetan, and "da" means horse.
The Tibetan people believe that the patron saints of the mountains and rivers and wilderness in the snow-covered Tibet are the gods of praise in the sky and the gods of the year on earth. They often ride wind horses to patrol the snowy mountains, forests, grasslands, and canyons. Protect the peace and tranquility of the snowy tribe and resist the invasion of monsters and evil.
Fengma flag is also called Nima flag, prayer flag, etc., or transliterated as Longda, Longda. It refers to the prayer stone or temple top that is often erected in Tibetan Buddhist areas. The eight-character mantra, six-character mantra and other sutras and mantras are written on various colored strips of cloth, tied into a bunch, and erected with wooden sticks. Because there is a wind horse painted on the cloth, it means that the prayers can be spread everywhere through the wind horse, so it is named "Wind Horse Flag".