The customs of hibernation are eating donkey rolls, sacrificing to the white tiger, and beating the little man, etc.

1, eating donkey rolls is popular in the Tianjin area.

1, eat donkey roll

The hibernation eating donkey roll is a popular custom in Tianjin, people eat donkey roll means "pests die, people turn over". In the hibernation season this day, when the weather slowly warms up, we eat a little bit of sweet donkey rolls, on behalf of our life is sweet, nourishing and moist, but also on behalf of our wish to eat donkey rolls in this behavior inside it.

2, sacrificing white tiger

Hibernation has sacrificed white tiger custom, Chinese folklore white tiger is the mouth, right and wrong of the God, every year will come out on this day to forage for food, open mouth devouring, guilty of this within the year, often by the evil villain of the waves you, blocking the development of your future, leading to a hundred bad. In order to protect themselves, they sacrificed the white tiger on the day of hibernation.

3, hit the little man

Hibernation season has the custom of hitting the little man, folk custom to hit the little man hibernation symbolizes the beginning of February, will be a thunderstorm, wake up all the hibernation in the snakes, insects, rodents and ants, the home of the creepy crawlies and ants and will be up in response to the sound of the four foraging for food.

Significance of Hibernation

The Hibernation season is of great significance in agricultural work. Since ancient times, the working people of our country have attached great importance to the hibernation holiday, and regarded it as the beginning of spring plowing. Tang Poetry has the following words: "The rain is new, and the hibernation begins with a thunderbolt. A few days of idleness in the field, plowing from now on. Farmer's proverbs also say: after the hibernation, spring plowing can not be rested, nine end of the poplar blossoms, agricultural work together." At this time the winter wheat in North China began to grow, the soil is still alternating between freezing and thawing, timely harrowing is an important measure to reduce water evaporation.