Brief introduction to the custom of shocking and stinging

1, the stinging of the sting means the state of biological dormancy.

2. In winter, some animals will go into a state of inactivity without eating or drinking, which is called "dormancy" or "dormancy". When spring comes, the activity of the atmosphere will make the clouds thunder, and at the same time, the temperature will rise, and hibernating animals will become active. This solar term is called "Jing Zhe".

3. The meaning of fear

When the weather gets warmer, spring thunder begins to sound.

In the season of fright, the spring is budding, the temperature rises, the spring thunder bursts, and the spring rain falls, and nature glows with new vitality, and a year of spring ploughing begins.

4. The custom of scaring

(1) Sacrifice the white tiger and turn evil into good.

According to the folklore in China, the white tiger is the god of tongue and right and wrong, and it will come out for food and eat people on this day every year. If you commit a crime, you will often be made waves by evil villains within one 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.

(2) Beating villains to drive away bad luck

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". Therefore, every year, there will be an interesting scene on the day of panic: while beating the paper doll with wooden slippers, the woman mumbles, "Hit your little head until you get angry and vomit when you eat."

(3) Provide drum skin to Raytheon.

Fear is caused by thunder. Thor, as the god of nine days, has a lofty position. 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, sending out rumbling thunder to shake the world, so there was a custom of offering sacrifices to Thor in the past. 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. 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.

(4) Eat pears when you are scared

There is a folk custom of eating pears in shock. In traditional culture, eating pears is generally taboo on holidays. However, eating pears in shock is to isolate from pests and stay away from diseases. As the saying goes, "cold comes and summer goes, and the vernal equinox is warm and cold." Midspring and February are also in the midst of sudden cold and warm, with changeable temperatures and relatively dry climate, and it is easy to get thirsty and cough due to exogenous factors. Eating pears helps to calm the temper and the five internal organs, thus strengthening the physique and resisting the invasion of germs.