ANT FOREST custom in the season of fright.

The custom in ANT FOREST is to beat villains and offer sacrifices to white tigers.

1, play a villain

Sting symbolizes the beginning of February. When a thunder on the ground wakes up all the hibernating snakes, insects, rats and ants, reptiles and ants at home will get up again and look around for food. Therefore, in ancient times, people would smoke the four corners of their homes with incense and wormwood to drive away snakes, insects, mosquitoes, mice and musty smells. Over time, it gradually evolved into the habit of those unhappy people slapping their opponents and driving away bad luck. This is the predecessor of "beating villains".

Step 2 sacrifice the white tiger

In Guangdong, there is a custom of "offering sacrifices to white tigers to solve right and wrong". It is said that the white tiger is the god of words, and it comes out for food every year on this day, opening its mouth to hurt people. The so-called white tiger sacrifice refers to the white tiger painted with paper for worship. Paper tigers are usually yellow and black, with a pair of tusks painted on the corners.

The origin of fear

What is surprising is the beginning of the official calendar Uzuki. Everything emerges from the ground, representing vitality. Mao, the mid-spring moon, the hexagrams are in the earthquake position, and everything is shocked, which is the image of hair growth. It was built at one year and twelve months, and each month corresponds to a hexagram. Uzuki (including two solar terms, namely, fright and vernal equinox) corresponds to a ray divination. The divination of Dazhuang hexagrams is that the sky begins to thunder, and the thunder rings in the sky, which is very vivid.

In the Western Han Dynasty, Dade and Xia Zhengxiao said: "The first month of the first month stung, and words stung. Everything is not shocked, shock is like thunder, so this is a surprise and a sting of leaving. " Wu Cheng's "Twenty-four Solar Terms" in Yuan Dynasty: "On February Festival, everything thunders, so it is called" shocking ".The symbolic feature of the shocking solar terms is that the spring thunder suddenly moves and everything is full of vitality.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Frightened.