The custom of ant forest in the season of fright.

It is the custom in ANT FOREST to beat villains and offer sacrifices to white tigers.

1, hit a villain

The thorn symbolizes the beginning of February, when a thunder on the ground wakes up all the hibernating snakes, insects, mice and ants, and the 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 those unhappy people slapping their opponents and driving away bad luck, which is the predecessor of "beating villains".

Step 2 sacrifice the white tiger

In Guangdong, there is a custom of "offering sacrifices to white tigers to resolve right and wrong". It is said that the white tiger is the god of words, and it will come out for food on this day every year, and it will hurt people. 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.

The origin of fear

What is surprising is the beginning of the official calendar Uzuki. Everything comes out of the ground, representing vitality. Mao, the mid-spring moon, the hexagrams are in the earthquake position, and everything is shocked, which is the image of hair growth. It was built at one year and twelve months, and each month corresponds to a hexagram. Uzuki (including two solar terms, namely, fright and vernal equinox) corresponds to a ray divination. The divination of Dazhuang hexagrams is that the sky begins to thunder, and the thunder rings in the sky, which is very vivid.

Dade in the Western Han Dynasty, Xia said, "The first month of the month began to stab, and the words made him stab. Everything is out of shock, and shock is thunder, so this is a surprise, this is a sting of leaving. " Wu Cheng's "Twenty-four Solar Terms" in Yuan Dynasty: "On February Festival, everything thunders, so it is called" sting ".The symbolic feature of the sting solar term is that spring thunder suddenly moves and everything is full of vitality.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Scare.