Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - What's so particular about solar terms?

What's so particular about solar terms?

Eating pears, offering sacrifices to white tigers, playing drums, beating young people, etc.

1, eating pears: there is a custom of eating pears in shock. Stunning solar terms, warm and cold at first, dry climate, it is easy to make people feel thirsty and uncomfortable. Therefore, people have the custom of eating pears in shock.

2. Sacrificing white tigers to resolve right and wrong: In Guangdong, there is a saying that "sacrificing white tigers to resolve right and wrong". It is said that the white tiger is the god of tongue, and it will come out to feed and hurt people on this day every year. The so-called "sacrifice to the white tiger" is to worship a paper tiger with yellow and black stripes.

3. Cover the drum: Thunder is an important feature of solar terms. The ancients imagined Thor as a bird's beak, a winged god, holding a hammer in one hand and knocking on many drums around his body in the other, making a rumbling thunder. On this shocking day, Raytheon played drums in the sky, and the world also took this opportunity to cover the drums.

4. Beating villains: Hong Kong and Macao have always had the custom of "beating villains". Legend has it that the white tiger is the god of words and right and wrong, and it will come out for food on this day every year. Criminals were made waves by evil villains during the year, which hindered their future development and led to various difficulties. So everyone should buy a piece of paper, including paper tiger, auspicious paper, villain paper and so on, to "beat villains".