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What do you mean you got stung?

Animals hide in the soil in winter and don't eat or drink.

The ancients said that animals hiding in the soil in winter without drinking or eating were called stings. The moment of panic is between March 5 and 6 of the Gregorian calendar. At this time, the weather is getting warmer and warmer, and there is spring thunder, which wakes up the animals that are dormant and hibernating in the soil, so it is called this day.

Sting, animals hibernate, hide without eating or moving. Sting, called "starting sting" in ancient times, is the third of the 24 solar terms. Around March 6, the sun arrived at 345? When it started. At this time, the weather gets warmer, the spring thunder begins to shake, and all kinds of hibernating animals that are dormant in the soil will wake up and start to move, so it is called a fright. During this period, the eggs laid by overwintering insects will also begin to hatch. Some parts of China have entered the spring ploughing season. As the proverb goes, after the shock, it is warm and harmonious, and the old toad sings folk songs. Surprised as a plow, the vernal equinox is full of gas. The earthquake does not reach thunder, and the rain is like a dragon.

What's the point of shock?

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During the period of fright, the weather gets warmer, but there is a great temperature difference between day and night during the period of fright, and there is often a chill in spring before and after the fright, especially in rainy days. Bare limbs can easily cause local numbness, soreness and other symptoms, which will lead to arthritis for a long time. Therefore, we must pay attention to cold and warmth, mainly covering.

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Life articles

Spring thunder rings, everything grows, and everything recovers in spring. People often feel sleepy, sleepy and sleepy in the spring after the shock, and wake up very late in the morning. This is what people often call spring sleep. However, it is necessary to conform to the natural law of spring, make the spirit happy, enhance physical fitness, go to bed early and get up early.

Stinging custom

Sacrifice the white tiger to solve right and wrong

Defeat villains and drive away bad luck.

Sting symbolizes the beginning of February in the lunar calendar. It will wake up all hibernating snakes, insects, rats and ants with a thunder, and reptiles and ants at home will also get up and look for food everywhere. 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 slapping unhappy people and driving away bad luck, which is the predecessor of hitting villains.

In Shandong, people who eat pancakes are shocked.

Shaanxi startled to eat fried beans

In Shaanxi, some areas want to eat fried beans after being electrocuted. People soak soybeans in salt water and stir-fry them in a pot, making a crackling sound, which symbolizes the jumping sound of insects when they are tortured by heat in the pot.

In Guangxi, frightened insects eat fried insects.

In ethnic minority areas, Yao people in Jinxiu county, Guangxi want to eat fried insects on the day of fright. After the worms are cooked, they are placed in the hall, and the family sits around and eats, shouting while eating: eat fried worms, eat fried worms! There will be a game in the fun place. Whoever eats fast and chews loudly will be congratulated for his contribution to eliminating pests. In fact, the worm is corn, which is symbolic.

Prohibition of marriage

According to the folk custom, before and after the fright, Lei Gong often went out to do business and thundered from time to time, so it was forbidden to do marriage between people during this period. If there is an offender, he will be punished by Lei Gong, and his marriage will be improper and his family will be unhappy. Therefore, in order to avoid taboos, there is generally no blind date, engagement or marriage during this period.