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History
"The Seventy-Two Waiting Episodes of the Moon Order":
February Day... All things are shocked, and the earthquake is thunder,
Therefore, it is said that the sting is the stinging insect that scares out and leaves.
The weather is getting warmer, and there are gradually spring thunderstorms,
The meaning of sting is,
Spring thunder awakened the sleeping animal.
Most of China enters the spring plowing season.
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Stinging, Three Waits
A peach shihua
Tao Shihua: The day of the sting, "Tao Shihua", the peach of the death, the burning of its glory, is the beginning of spring, red into the peach blossom tender, green to the willow leaf new, flowing water peach blossom, it will seduce a thousand and one beautiful.
Second waiting warehouse Gengming
Cang Gengming: Five days after the sting, "Cang Gengming", Cang Geng is the Yellow Oriole, the Yellow Oriole first felt the breath of spring and sun, hissed its sound, and asked for its friends. Cang is green, qing is Qing, Geng is updated, "in the past I was cloudy, Cang Geng zaiming", the literati also called it "away from the yellow", "away from the yellow through the tree language intermittently" has become a sad voice.
The three eagles turned into doves
Eagles turn into doves: On the fifth day, "eagles turn into doves", the ancients called "doves" cuckoos, and in mid-spring because "the beak is still soft, can not catch birds, staring at hunger, like crazy". By autumn, the dove is transformed into an eagle again.
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Stinging and customs
Stinging at the pear
In folklore, there is a tradition of eating pears with surprise. Regarding eating pears, the sayings vary from place to place. In northern Jiangsu and Shanxi, there is a folk proverb that "the sting eats the pear, and the spirit is spirited all year round". It is also said that "pear" is pronounced "away", and it is said that eating pears can keep insect pests away from crops and preserve a good harvest in the year.
Bulging skin
The sting is caused by thunder. The ancients imagined that Thor was a bird-billed, winged god, holding a hammer in one hand and combing many heavenly drums around him with the other, emitting a rumbling thunder. On this day of stinging, there was a thunder god in the heavenly court to beat the heavenly drum, and the human world also used this opportunity to cover the drum.
Sacrifice to the White Tiger
In Chinese folklore, the white tiger is the god of tongue and right and wrong, and every year it will come out on this day to forage for food and eat people. In order to protect themselves, everyone sacrificed the white tiger on the day of the sting. The sacrifice of the white tiger refers to the worship of a white tiger drawn on paper. When worshipping, it is necessary to feed it with fat pig's blood, so that it will no longer export and hurt people after eating, and then rub raw pork on the mouth of the paper tiger, so that it is filled with oil and water, and it is impossible to open its mouth to say whether people are right or wrong.
Spring thunder, all things long
All the dormant beauty is waking up
May you have a good spring and may you wish you well
May you live up to the spring light and live up to yourself
Co-ordination | Qin Nan Bai Meng
Editor-in-charge | Bi Zhihui
Typography | Fan Yiping Liu Hui (Student)
Source | Network Student Work Department (Division)