Today is the tenth day of the first lunar month, which is the day of our local folklore "Mouse Marrying Relatives". In fact, this is a custom of "sacrificing rats"! Rats marry relatives in this ancient traditional folklore in China

Today is the tenth day of the first lunar month, which is the day of our local folklore "Mouse Marrying Relatives". In fact, this is a custom of "sacrificing rats"!

The ancient traditional folklore of rats marrying relatives is very popular throughout China, and as a Chinese folk belief, it is one of the most influential topics in traditional Chinese folk culture, which is a rat sacrifice held on the first month of the new month. The plot version is different, the specific date varies from place to place, some on the third, seventh, fifteenth, sixteenth, and twentieth days of the first month of the first month, but there are more than ten bodies at the beginning of the first month. It is said that on the night of the sixteenth day of the first month in the suburbs of Shanghai, every household stirs sesame candy, which is a happy candy for the mice to take kisses.

In fact, this is a kind of "mouse" custom, rat behavior is very destructive, they steal people's food, eat people's clothes, furniture, and even infect diseases, but people in the happy Spring Festival, but also put 🐀 rats 🐭 on the celebration ceremony, is a psychological reaction to profit and avoid harm. During the Spring Festival, "rats marry relatives" reflects a folk activity in the agricultural era to sacrifice rats, respect rats, and beautify rats as a means to achieve the "purpose" of rats, rat repellents, rats, rats, rats, and rat extermination. It reflects the original desire of people to put an end to rat infestations and pray for peace. According to legend, the rat king chose to marry the daughter on the twenty-fourth day of the waxing moon, just when the human world was busy with new year goods, people pushed and grinded the spoon, making a lot of noise, the rat king was angry: "People make trouble for me for a day, I make trouble for a year", people suffered a big loss, and it was stipulated that the rat was not allowed to push and grind the spring on the day of marrying a relative.

The elders said: At 12 o'clock in the middle of the night today, put on the old sheepskin jacket, have a donkey dung egg in their mouth, hide behind the millstone, and you will see rats marrying relatives, and the rats of the two families who marry relatives meet in the middle of the road, do not give in to each other, and finally fight into a mess.