Are there any customs and habits besides killing villains and offering sacrifices to white tigers on Frightening Day?

First, the folk custom of the season of fright

Sacrifice the white tiger to solve right and wrong

According to the folklore in China, the white tiger is the god of tongue and right and wrong. On this day every year, it will come out for food and bite. If you commit a crime, you will often be made waves by evil villains this year, which will hinder your future development and lead to all kinds of difficulties. In order to protect themselves, everyone sacrificed the white tiger on the day of shock. The so-called white tiger sacrifice refers to the white tiger painted with paper for sacrifice. Paper tigers are usually yellow and black, with a pair of fangs painted on the corners. When offering sacrifices, you need to feed it with the blood of the fat pig, so that it won't hurt people after eating it, and then put raw pork on the mouth of the paper tiger, so that it is covered with oil and water and can't open its mouth to tell people right and wrong.

Eat pears in horror.

There is a folk custom of "eating pears in surprise". There is no trace of when pears were eaten, but there is such a story circulating among the people in Qixian County. According to legend, Qu Ji, a well-known Shanxi merchant at sea, is the eldest son of Shangdang County. In the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, he took his two sons, Xin and Yi, and traded the Party's pears for coarse cloth and red dates in Qixian for profit. Over time, he had savings and settled down in Qixian County. During the Yongzheng period, fourteen canals ran through the west, which was a shocking day.

After his father took out pears for him to eat, he said that his ancestors sold pears to start a business and settled in Qixian after hardships. Today, you went to the west in shock. Eating pears is to make you not forget your ancestors and work hard to start a business and honor them. Qu Baichuan went west to become rich in business and named the shop name "Changyuan Hou". Later, westerners followed suit and ate pears, mostly with the intention of "leaving home to start a business". Later, they were shocked and ate pears, and they also had the idea of "trying to honor their ancestors."

There are several other sayings about eating pears in shock:

It is because of this solar term that everything recovers! The season of fright is still cold at first glance. In addition to paying attention to cold and warmth, the dry climate is also easy to make people thirsty and cough. Therefore, people have the custom of eating pears, which can be eaten raw, steamed, juiced, roasted and cooked. At this time, diet and daily life should follow the nature of the liver. Eating pears is helpful to temper, make the five internal organs calm, and enhance physical fitness to resist the invasion of germs.

There are many kinds of ancient creatures. Some infectious diseases have no specific drugs of 65,438+0,000%, and the day of awakening is the time when all insects wake up. Eating pears is to remind everyone to take precautions.

There is a saying in northern Jiangsu and Shanxi that "I am shocked to eat a pear and I am full of energy all year round!" Folk proverbs. Some people say that "pear" is homophonic "Li". It is said that eating pears can keep pests away from crops and save the good harvest in 2008. On this day, the whole family will eat pears.

Mongolian skin

Fear is caused by thunder. 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. Li Zhoujuan's 40 "Swing Man" said: "Whoever beats the drum begins to stab it." Note: "Stings, even in Meng Chun, sting insects move at the sound of thunder;" Drum, like also beat; Take it, I don't know it. " It can be seen that not only the ecology of various insects adapts to the operation of the four seasons, but also human beings, as the spirit of all things, should adapt to the weather, so that everything can get twice the result with half the effort.

Defeat the villain

"Get rid of musty.

The wake-up call symbolizes the beginning of February. It will wake up all hibernating snakes, insects, mice and ants, and reptiles and ants at home will get up and look around for food. Therefore, in ancient times, people would smoke the four corners of their homes with incense and wormwood to drive away snakes, insects, mosquitoes, rats and musty smells. Over time, it gradually evolved into the habit of slapping unhappy people and driving away bad luck, which is the predecessor of "beating villains".