What are the traditional customs that shock the solar terms?

In the twenty-four solar terms, awakening reflects the phenomenon of biological germination and growth under the influence of rhythm changes. It is the reflection of ancient farming culture on natural festivals, which is of great significance in busy farming. This small series sorts out the traditional customs of shocking solar terms for your reference.

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Shocking traditional customs of solar terms

The legendary story of fear

How to sacrifice the white tiger?

Shocking traditional customs of solar terms

Sacrifice the white tiger to solve right and wrong

According to the folklore in China, the white tiger is the god of tongue and right and wrong. Every year it comes out to feed and eat people. If you commit a crime, you will often be made waves by evil villains this year, which will hinder your future development and lead to all kinds of troubles.

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.

You should eat pears when you are frightened.

Because the weather is obviously warmer after the sting, people are prone to dry mouth and cough due to exogenous factors. Pear is cold and sweet, and has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, nourishing yin and clearing heat. Eating pears at this time is very nourishing to the body.

You should put on a drum skin when you are afraid.

Fear is caused by thunder. 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.

"Beat the villain" to drive away the bad luck

The folk custom of "beating a villain" symbolizes that in early February, all hibernating snakes, insects, rats and ants will be awakened 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 "beating villains".

Many people deify "beating villains", but this is purely a folk custom. The purpose of beating villains is to drive away the villains around you and vent their inner dissatisfaction by patting the paper dolls representing their opponents.

The purpose of most people beating villains is to hope that everything will go well in the new year, and the targets of being "beaten" are mainly "villains" and so-called "mistresses" encountered in life and work.

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The legendary story of fear

The sound of spring thunder woke the sleeping white tiger on the mountain. It bends back and forth, stretches the two channels of Ren Du, swings from side to side, and moves the liver and gallbladder meridians. After the activity, it felt that there was nothing in its stomach, so it went straight to the village at the foot of the mountain to prepare to go into the village for food. Suddenly, I saw many white tigers with fangs in the village talking to the villagers. Although I can't hear clearly what it is, I can see the villagers nodding to the white tiger frequently. The white tiger is terrible. It seems that villagers can't be provoked. If they are provoked, the white tiger in the village will eat me. Look carefully, every white tiger's mouth is stained with blood, and his chin is still dripping blood. I wonder to myself: if I go out now, I will be laughed at by these stuffed tigers. People are full of blood, and I am still hungry here. It's really a great shame. I can't afford to lose this "tiger" Then I turned back to the mountain and continued to sleep soundly, and I didn't hurt the people below. When people saw the white tiger go down the mountain, they were very scared. They dare not talk nonsense, nor dare they talk nonsense, so as not to anger the tiger and suffer the consequences. After the tiger left, the villagers met each other like guests, with little right and wrong, and their lives were happy. The custom of offering sacrifices to white tigers began to spread on the day of fright.

The thunderbolt in spring also woke up a nest of snakes and rats, because snakes and rats are a family. The snake told the mouse that the fragrance came from the outside. You and I are separated. You take your people to Henan to go in and out of the cave, and I will take my entourage to Shandong to go in and out of the rafters. what do you think? The mouse said: I think this will do. Immediately, the two forces followed their respective leaders and marched separately. This snake is very fast and arrived in Shandong this morning. The smell of pancakes has been sucked into the snake's stomach. The head snake couldn't bear it, so he stuck his head out of the rafters to find out. I saw black smoke rising, hitting my nose and mouth, entering my lungs and shouting: My life is over. Is that the lungs explode and the ground is chopped. The remnant army was scared when they saw this scene, and then got off the beam and escaped from the hole, afraid to offend again. Another group of mice went straight into the cave and pushed towards Henan. A few days after arrival, the rat head gently pushed open the eluvial soil at the mouth of the cave, ready to explore. Unexpectedly, a flat thing lay across his head, facing the center of Xiang Ying Cave, and was beaten back into the cave, lying dead on the ground. The two leaders were furious and shouted "revenge", that is, they rushed to see it, exactly the same, and they were also taken back. Fortunately, it missed the point. Immediately led the troops to Shaanxi, and when they arrived in Shaanxi, they heard something on the ground. The rat team was terrible. Because of the previous losses, neither of the two leaders dared to take it lightly. After careful analysis, he came to the final decision of the mouse Committee: Shaanxi is more fascinated and knows the arrival of the mouse team. Not only is it ready, but the machine gun is still firing and there is plenty of ammunition. So I decided to let the rats go back to their original place. Since then, whenever people are shocked, the custom of spreading pancakes, frying beans and beating villains has spread.

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How to sacrifice the white tiger?

According to Guangdong custom, the white tiger is sacrificed to beat the villain on the day of fright. In China folklore, the white tiger is the tongue and the god of right and wrong. On this day every year, it will come out to feed and eat people. If you commit a crime, you will often be made waves by evil villains this 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. There is also a saying that the dormant animals began to feed after being awakened by the spring thunder, and it is said that the white tiger, one of the evil spirits, went out to feed. Therefore, it is for the sake of peace to sacrifice to the white tiger on this shocking day.

White tigers are usually made of yellow paper, with black stripes on their bodies and teeth in their mouths. They are placed in front of the altar. The yellow paper tiger represents the white tiger, with black stripes on the paper and a pair of brushed teeth on the corner. When offering sacrifices, small pieces of raw pork are usually dipped in pig blood and put into the mouth of a paper tiger (fed to the paper tiger), so that the tiger will not hurt people after eating it.

When worshipping the goddess, the paper tiger's mouth will be smeared with fatty raw pork, which will make the paper tiger's mouth full of oil and water, meaning "if you eat enough oil and water, you won't open your mouth to hurt people." You can't talk about people's right and wrong. In some places, the paper white tiger will be burned after the sacrifice, or its head will be cut off with a bronze sword.

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