Folk custom of shocking solar terms

The folk customs of shocking solar terms include offering sacrifices to Raytheon, eating pears, covering the skin with drums, offering sacrifices to white tigers, beating villains and so on.

1, shocked and sacrificed Thor.

The god of solar terms is Raytheon. 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.

2. eat pears.

"After eating pears, I feel refreshed all year." There is a custom of eating 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.

3. Drum skin

Fear is caused by thunder. On this shocking day, Raytheon played drums in the sky, and the world also took this opportunity to cover the drums.

Step 4 sacrifice the white tiger

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.

Step 5 defeat the villain

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 those unhappy people slapping their opponents and driving away bad luck, which is the predecessor of "beating villains".