What are the customs of hibernation season twenty-four seasons hibernation folk culture introduction

Hibernation customs and folklore:

1, sacrificing the white tiger to resolve right and wrong.

Chinese folklore is the white tiger is the mouth, the god of right and wrong, every year will come out on this day to forage for food, open mouth devouring, the offender is within the year, often by the evil villain of the wind on you to make waves, obstructing the development of your future, leading to all kinds of bad luck. In order to protect themselves, they will sacrifice the white tiger on the day of hibernation.

The so-called sacrifice white tiger, is to worship with paper drawn white tiger, paper tiger is generally yellow and black speckled, the corner of the mouth painted with a pair of fangs. When worshipping, you need to feed it with fat pig's blood, so that it will not hurt people after eating, followed by raw pork smeared on the mouth of the paper tiger, so that it is full of oil and water, and can not open their mouths to say what is right and what is wrong.

2, masked drum skin.

The hibernation is caused by the sound of thunder. The ancients imagined that the God of Thunder is a bird beak person, a winged god, a hammer in one hand, one hand even hit around the body of the many drums in the sky, the sound of rumbling thunder. On the day of hibernation, the god of thunder struck the heavenly drums in the heavenly court, and the earthly world also utilized this time to cover the drum skins. The Zhou Rites, Volume 40, "Waving People", says: "All drums must be used to start the day of hibernation.

"Note:" hibernation, the middle of spring also, the stinging insects began to hear the sound of thunder and move; drums, taken by the elephant also;冒, masked drums to leather." Visible not only the ecology of the insects and the operation of the seasons of the year in line with the spirit of mankind should also be in line with the time of the day, everything can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

3, hit the little man.

"Beat the little man" to drive away bad luck hibernation symbolizes the beginning of February, will be a thunderstorm, waking up all the hibernation in the snakes, insects, rodents and ants, the home of the crawling ants and will be up in response to the sound of the ants and foraging around.

So in ancient times on the day of hibernation, people will hold incense, wormwood, smoked four corners of the home to scent away snakes, insects, mosquitoes, rats and mildew, over time, gradually evolved into the bad luck of the people who beat the head and drive away the bad luck of the habit, that is, the "hit the little man," the predecessor.

So every year on the day of the hibernation, there will be an interesting scene: a woman with wooden slippers while slapping the paper doll, while reciting under her breath: "hit you a small person, hit you have gas not fixed shaking, hit you eat relatives wild all vomit" of the small person incantation.

The "Thousand Gold Monthly Order" says: "On the day of the hibernation, take the lime grits outside the door limit, can stop the insects and ants." Lime originally has the efficacy of killing insects, on the day of hibernation, sprinkled outside the threshold, that insects and ants will not dare to come to the door within a year, which is the same as the smell of thunder shaking clothes, are in the hundreds of insects out of hibernation when it is a downward spiral, hope that the pests do not come to harass themselves.

4, express inner wrath.

Many people will "hit the little man" myth, in fact, this is purely a folk custom, the intention of hitting the little man is to represent the opposing party through the shooting of paper dolls, to drive away around the villainous plague, to vent their inner dissatisfaction, the majority of people go to hit the little man.

The general purpose is to seek a new year, there are small people to engage in shock, and the object of the "fight", mainly second wife and work on the "Goldfinger". The purpose of playing the villain is to hope that they know how to retreat and express their personal wrath.