[23] House in the Central Park Part - Straw Rice Bag-making Experience
Ah, a baby has been born in this house.
This can actually be known first through the gold rope hung on the main gate.
The gold rope is a straw rope made of straws and hung on this sacred place.
Because it is sacred, it also has the meaning of blocking the entrance of bad things.
From long ago, the gold rope was hung on the main gate when having a baby to drive out the evil spirit.
Particularly, when a son is born, pepper would be is hung on the rope. When a daughter is born, pine twigs are hung.
This was a way to classify the gender of the new born.
The gold rope may seem like a superstition, but this was a way to prevent the contact of people with the mother and the baby who have weak immunity.
When a baby is born, the gold rope is hung for around 21 days. This notifies the recovery for the mother and the baby’s twenty-first day of life.
The gold rope is probably the sensible grace of our ancestors. In this house, craftsman makes straw bags. Straw bags are sacks made of straws.
Although the sack is made of straws, the spaces are very fine so grains do not fall through. How do the straw bags feel like? Feel and check how tightly the straw bags are made.