What's the meaning of the solar term of fright? Is there customs?

On March 5th and 6th, every year, when the sun reaches 345 degrees, it is "in a daze". Sting is the third of the 24 solar terms. "Twenty-four solar terms" said: "February Festival, everything vibrates, and when it vibrates, it thunders, so it is called thunder. It's an escaped cockroach. "In this season, spring thunder will ring, and insects hibernating in the soil will wake up and start to move, so it is called enlightenment. Later, in order to avoid the name of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty Liu Qizhi, it was changed to Jingzhi.

Tao Yuanming, a poet in the Jin Dynasty, said in a poem: "In the spring rain, the east corner began to thunder, and everyone was lurking, and the vegetation was comfortable." In fact, insects can't hear thunder. Spring is back, and the warmer weather is the reason why they end their hibernation and "run away in surprise".

The custom of being startled?

1, eat pears

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.

Step 2 defeat the villain

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".

3. Drum skin

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.

Refer to the above content: China Meteorological Bureau-the origin of the solar term of fright.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Scare.