Eating pears, masking drum skin, playing small people, sacrificing the White Tiger to resolve right and wrong.

1, eat pear

Hibernation has the custom of eating pear. Hibernation season, the first warm and cold, the climate is relatively dry, it is easy for people to feel dry mouth, uncomfortable. Therefore, in the folk have been eating pears in hibernation custom.

2, Meng drum skin

Loud thunder, is an important feature of the hibernation season. Ancient people imagined that the god of thunder was a bird with a beak and wings, a hammer in one hand, one hand even hit the many drums around the circumference of the sky, emitting a rumbling thunder. On the day of hibernation, the god of thunder struck the heavenly drums in the heavenly court, and the earthly world also took advantage of this time to mask the drum skins.

The Zhou Li, Volume 40, "Swinging People" on the chapter says: "Where the risk of drums must be to start the day of hibernation." Note: "The hibernation, in the midst of Mengchun also, the stinging insects began to hear the sound of thunder and move; drums, taken by the elephant also;冒, masked drums to leather." Can be seen not only the ecology of the insects and the operation of the seasons of the year in line with the spirit of mankind should also be in line with the time of day, everything can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

3, hit the little man

Hong Kong, Macao has always been "hit the little man" custom. Legend has it that the White Tiger is the mouth, the God of right and wrong, every year will come out to feed on this day, the offender will be evil villain in the year to make waves, blocking the development of the future, leading to all sorts of bad luck. Therefore, we have to buy a copy of the paper material, containing paper tigers, auspicious paper, villain paper, etc. to "fight the little man".

4, sacrificing white tiger to resolve right and wrong

In Guangdong around the folk in the hibernation "sacrifice white tiger to resolve right and wrong," the saying, allegedly the white tiger for the God of the mouth, every year will be out of the day to forage for food, open wounding, the so-called "sacrificing the white tiger," is to worship with a painted yellow and black, and the white tiger is to worship with a painted yellow and black. The so-called "sacrifice white tiger", is to worship with the drawing of yellow and black markings of the paper tiger.

The above reference? Baidu Encyclopedia - Hibernation