Folk custom of shocking solar terms

The custom of shocking solar terms: eating pears, covering the skin with drums, beating villains and offering sacrifices to white tigers.

There is a custom of eating pears in surprise. 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.

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.

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".

There is a folk saying in Guangdong that "sacrifice the white tiger to resolve right and wrong". It is said that the white tiger is the god of tongue, and it will come out to feed and hurt people on this day every year. The so-called "white tiger sacrifice" is a paper tiger with yellow and black stripes for sacrifice.