Customs of Hibernation

The customs of hibernation are as follows:

1, hibernation sacrifice to the god of thunder

The god of hibernation is the god of thunder. Ancient people imagined that the god of thunder is a bird with a beak and a human body, a winged god, a hammer in one hand, one hand even hit around the body of the many drums in the sky, making a rumbling sound of thunder.

2, hibernation eat pear

"Hibernation ate a pear, a year of spirit", hibernation has the custom of eating pears. Hibernation season, the first warm and cold, the climate is relatively dry, it is easy for people to feel dry mouth, uncomfortable body. Therefore, in the folk have been eating pears in hibernation custom.

3, Meng drum skin

Hibernation is caused by thunder. On the day of the hibernation, the heavenly court, the thunder god hit the sky drum, the earth also use this time to mask the drum skin.

4, sacrifice white tiger

The so-called sacrifice white tiger, is to worship the white tiger painted with paper, paper tigers are generally yellow and black speckled, painted with a pair of fangs at the corner of the mouth. 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.

5, hit the little man, drive bad luck

Hibernation symbolizes the beginning of February, will be a thunderstorm, waking up all the hibernation of snakes, insects, rodents and ants, home creepy crawlies and ants and will be up in response to the sound, foraging around. Therefore, in ancient times, people will hold the day of hibernation, incense, mugwort, smoked four corners of the home to the fragrance to drive away snakes, insects, mosquitoes, rats and moldy smell. Over time, gradually evolved into the bad luck of the people who beat the head and drive away the habit of bad luck, that is, "playing small people" predecessor.