Marrying a mouse was once one of the main customs, and its date has two versions. In some places, it is the tenth day of the first month, and in some places it is the twelfth day of the first month. The mouse marries a wife, which expresses the simple idea that man and nature live in harmony: even the mouse has money to marry a wife, not to mention the farmers' harvest. On the day when the mouse married his wife, many villagers danced. Some pretend to be mice, and some pretend to be mice's daughter-in-law to celebrate.
Tie up the scissors and hide them: On that day, all the daughters-in-law and girls will tie up their usual scissors with red ropes or HongLing and hide them in drawers and under mattresses. The villagers said that you can't use scissors on Mouse Day. As long as you can't hear the click of scissors, you can't hear the click of mice eating at home for a year.
Carrying baskets to collect old shoes: On the morning of that day, children from all households carried baskets to collect old shoes from door to door, and villagers were willing to give away "evil" (shoes). Usually, people in the village don't sell worn-out old shoes as waste, but keep mice for daily use. Han Dawei, a 66-year-old villager, said that besides digging holes, rats are also used to hiding in old shoes that people don't wear to build nests and give birth to rats.
Bao jiaozi "squeezed the mouse's mouth": Everyone will pack jiaozi at noon. The reporter saw that the villagers all pinched jiaozi into the shape of a mouse, with mouths, ears and tails, and used mung beans as eyes. It's just a little mouse, just like a dough sculpture. The villagers say Bao jiaozi is "squeezing the mouse's mouth". If you squeeze the mouse's mouth to death, it won't bite, and there won't be any mice at home for a year.