What do you mean by pulling the red line?

Pulling the red line is matchmaking. This statement originated from ancient myths and legends in China, where the old man in charge of marriage fixed the marriage for men and women with red lines.

The elder under the moon, referred to as "the elder under the moon" for short, is the god in charge of marriage in China mythology. In the Tang Dynasty, it was recorded in The Shop of Continuing Mysteries and Fixing Feelings that Du Gu and Yuan He had been in Song Cheng for two years when they met an old man leaning on a cloth bag and picking up books under the moon. When asked what book he was looking for, Gu replied, "The world is a wedding." He asked what was in the bag and replied, "red rope ears." To tie the feet of husband and wife, and their lives, then the situation is related. Although _ the enemy's family, the noble and the humble are separated, the end of the world is official, and Wu Chu is a foreign land, but this rope is tied and will never be lost. " From then on, there was a folk god who fixed the marriage for men and women all over the world with red lines.

In a Dream of Red Mansions written by Cao Xueqin in the Qing Dynasty, there is an allusion to this red line: "If the old man under the moon doesn't have to be tied with a red line, he will never get anywhere again." "Since ancient times, there has been a saying that' a thousand miles of marriage is a thread'." In charge of marriage, there are old people under the moon, and it is destiny takes a hand to trip these two people's feet with a HongLing. "There is a legend, the old man likes to drink under the moon, and when he is drunk, he goes with mortals. Because my eyes are dim and messy after drinking, I have many friends who are husband and wife. They are noisy all day, their homes are restless, but they are tied together all their lives.