Sting is the third of the 24 solar terms, and the twenty-four solar terms are the life experience summed up by the ancestors in countless years of farming life! The so-called "sting" means that animals hide in the soil in winter, and do not drink or eat. And "stinging" refers to the spring thunder that awakens those animals that live in the stung.
When the people are the most important farmers, and the sting is the first day of all things, so the ancestors will naturally attach great importance to today's days. As a result, there will be a lot of folk customs to pay attention to, for example, folk have "1 knock 2 hope 3 sacrifices 4 dozen 5 do not go out" folklore.
【Stung knocking on the pillow, gold and silver rolling home】
The so-called "1 knock" refers to knocking on the beam and knocking on the pillow. Before and after the sting, the worms recovered and moved frequently. Therefore, people should use the method of knocking on the beam and knocking on the pillow to repel insects.
Folk customs are different, the way of deworming is also different, some places people, will use the way of knocking sorghum to shake the house to repel insects, some places people also have the custom of sweeping insects, eating insects, stir-frying insects, in order to mean the removal of hundreds of insects.
【Thunder Strike Sting Valley Rice Slut】
The so-called "2 hopes" is to say that the hope is to sting and thunder, and the folk have the saying that "thunder strikes and stings the valley rice, and the sting smells of the rice like mud".
People believe that if the sting will be thunder, then the rain of the year will be a lot, which is very conducive to agricultural production, and also indicates that the wind and rain will be smooth this year. On the contrary, if there is thunder before the sting, it indicates that there will be no good harvest, so there is a folk saying that "if the thunder is not stung, people eat dog food".
The reason why there will be thunder in the sting is because when the sting is left and right, the humid and hot air meets, and there will inevitably be thunderclouds. The north-south span of the mainland is very large, and the time of spring thunder is naturally different, so the saying "thunder strikes and stings the valley and rice" is only applicable to some areas!
【Sacrifice to the White Tiger, Solve Right and Wrong】
The so-called "3 sacrifices" refers to the sacrifice of the white tiger. In folklore, the white tiger is the "god of tongue and tongue". On the day of the sting, everything will recover, and the white tiger will also be awakened from the dormancy by the spring thunder, and come out to feed and hurt people.
When sacrificing the white tiger, it is necessary to feed the white tiger with pig's blood, and then smear it on the tiger's mouth with raw pig fat, so that he can eat enough and cannot hurt people, and the mouth oil does not say whether people are right or wrong.
【Hit the villain, catch bad luck】
To "fight" on this day is to hit the villain. People will use paper to make a small person look, and then slap it with their hands, which means to drive away bad luck and drive away the little people around them.
This folk custom is actually homologous with "knocking on the pillow" and "knocking on the beam". In the beginning, it was because of the recovery of the stinging insects, so people had to use the method of "knocking on the pillow" and "knocking on the beam" to drive away these mosquitoes.
With the development, the custom of repelling insects in shock gradually evolved into the custom of "beating villains".
【Sting does not go out, bad luck does not go out】
In some local folklore, it is not recommended to go out on this day of stinging. People believe that the "thunder" of this day is the most powerful, and there may be disasters when going out on this day, and if there is no disaster on this day, perhaps in the days to come, it will also break the wealth. Because you've brought your fortune out on this day.
Of course, this is only a subjective understanding of the folk ancestors. Objectively speaking, around the sting, there may be thunderstorms, which is naturally not suitable for going out.
The folk custom of stinging is often the wisdom of the ancestors, and the sting marks the beginning of the mid-spring moon, and the "卯" has the meaning of everything coming out of the ground, so the sting also heralds the beginning of a year of farming activities. As an agricultural civilization, our ancestors were mainly farming in ancient times, and this day of natural stinging is particularly important for the ancestors!