The Red Brocade Lasso is Hu Sanniang’s concealed capture weapon in Water Margin. Its flexible loop and metal hooks complement her paired sabers, allowing a mounted duel to end through control rather than a killing blow.
Chapter 55 says that she hangs her twin sabers on the saddle, draws the red brocade lasso from beneath her robe, and casts it as Peng Qi pursues. Its twenty-four golden hooks catch him and pull him from his horse. The passage supplies both the named object and its practical action.
The lasso strengthens Hu Sanniang’s identity as an agile mounted fighter who changes methods at the right moment. The number of hooks is textual; their exact spacing and ornament remain visual choices. The weapon is specialized martial equipment, not a spell or an automatically successful magic snare.
