What is the relationship between the god of thunder and the hibernation festival?

In the past, many villages when hibernation came, self-organized peasants beat gongs and drums, striking the drums as if they were thunder, and the deafening sound of the drums was somewhat like thunder. Therefore, these rural recreational activities are also regarded as Leigong worship by the farmers.

1. Insects Wake Up

In the cold winter, insects and small animals hide in the soil and hibernate.? The "Collected Explanations of the Seventy-two Waiting Periods of the Monthly Orders" describes hibernation as follows: ? "In the February festival, all things come out of Zhen, and Zhen is thunder, so it is called hibernation, and it is the stinging insects that are startled and go out." It means that the earth warms up, the spring thunder moves at first, and everything is reborn, waking up the animals hibernating in the earth.

2. Deworming activities

Every family must carry out various forms of deworming activities.? "Spring Thunder Jing Hundred Insects." Around the time of the vibration, various dormant insects, including poisonous insects, begin to awaken, and the more traces there are, the more frequent the activity. In order to prevent poisonous insects from harming their families, farmers and families have to carry out activities such as insecticides and repellents, and the custom has become habitual with the passage of time.

3. Worshiping Leigong

The year's program is in the spring. In order to pray for good weather and a good harvest, farmers, facing the yellow earth, worship the "God of Thunder", which is closely related to the quality of the harvest, just as the god of the season awakens the hibernators. In the past, on the occasion of the hibernation, farmers either put a picture of the god of thunder in their main house, burned incense and prayed, or brought incense sheets and offerings to temples to burn incense and worship. In the past, when hibernation arrived in many villages, self-organized peasants beat gongs and drums, striking the drums like thunder, and the deafening sound of the drums was somewhat like thunder. As a result, these rural recreational activities were also regarded as Thunder God worship by the peasants.

Many villages when the hibernation comes, self-organized peasants beat gongs and drums, drums like thunder, deafening drums sound a little like thunder , "hibernation" worship Lei Gong also came.