What do you mean by stinging the solar terms?

Jingzhe is the third solar term in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar, which is called "Qi Zhe" in ancient times, marking the beginning of the mid-spring season. At this time, the sun reaches 345° of the Yellow Meridian, the weather turns warm, and there is gradually spring thunder. Animals hide in the earth in winter and do not drink or eat. It is called "sting", and "Jingzhe" is the day when heaven wakes up dormant animals with thunder. At this time, most parts of China enter the spring season.

What do you mean by "Stunning"?

Insects are of great significance in busy farming. Since ancient times, the working people of our country have attached great importance to the Jingzhe solar term and regarded it as the day when spring ploughing began. Tang poetry has a cloud: "light rain all flowers new, a thunder Jingzhe began." Tian family a few days idle, farming from now on. "There is also a saying in farming proverbs: " After the Jingzhe Festival, spring ploughing cannot rest,"" Nine Yang flowers bloom, farm work comes together. "Winter wheat in North China begins to grow green again, soil is still frozen and thawed alternately, timely raking is an important measure to reduce water evaporation. "Stinging insects without raking the ground is like steaming steamed buns," which is the valuable experience of local people in preventing drought and preserving moisture.

Climatic Characteristics of Jingzhe Solar Term

"Spring thunder rings, everything grows", Jingzhe season is a good "Jiujiu" sunny day, the temperature rises, rain increases. In addition to the northeast and northwest regions are still covered in silver makeup winter scene, most of our country's average temperature has risen to 0℃ above, North China's daily average temperature of 3~6℃, Jiangnan area along the river is above 8℃, and southwest and south China has reached 10~15℃, has long been a warm spring.

"Spring thunder startles hundreds of insects", warm climate conditions are conducive to the occurrence and spread of a variety of diseases and insect pests, weeds in the field also sprout one after another, should do a good job in pest control and intertillage weeding in time. "Peach blossoms bloom, swine fever comes", poultry and livestock epidemic prevention should also attract attention. At this time, the temperature rose rapidly, and most areas of the Yangtze River Basin had gradually had spring thunder. In most parts of southern China, spring thunder can also be heard in perennial rain and stinging insects, while thunder usually occurs in Qingming in northwest China except for a few years, which is the latest area where thunderstorm starts in most parts of southern China.

Folk custom of Jingzhe solar term

1, sacrifice white tiger to resolve right and wrong: Chinese folk legend white tiger is the tongue, the god of right and wrong, every year will come out to feed on this day, open the mouth to bite people, commit it in the year, often by evil villains to make waves against you, obstruct your future development, resulting in all kinds of bad luck. In order to protect themselves, everyone sacrificed white tiger on the day of Jingzhe. The so-called sacrifice white tiger refers to the white tiger drawn on the sacrificial paper. The paper tiger is generally yellow and black striped, and the mouth is painted with a pair of fangs. When worshipping, you need to feed it with fat pig blood, so that it will no longer hurt people after eating, and then wipe the mouth of the paper tiger with raw pork, so that it is full of oil and water, and cannot open its mouth to say right and wrong.

2, Jingzhe eat pears: There is a folk custom of "Jingzhe eat pears". Jingzhe eat pear from when, no trace can be found, but Qi County folk has such a story passed down from generation to generation. It is said that the famous Jin Shang Qu family in the sea, ancestor Qu Ji is Shangdang Changzi County people, Ming Hongwu early years, with Xin, Yi two sons, with Shangdang Lu Ma and pear exchange Qi County coarse cloth, red dates, back and forth between the two places from profit, long time has savings, settled down in Qi County City. Yongzheng years, the 14th canal Baichuan go west mouth, it is the day of Jingzhe, his father took out pear let him eat said, ancestors peddle business, after hardships, settled in Qi County, today Jingzhe you want to go west mouth, eat pear is to let you not forget ancestors, strive to start a business Guangzong Yao ancestors. Qu Baichuan went west to become rich in business and named the brand "Changyuanhou". Later, those who walked Xikou also imitated eating pears, which meant "leaving home to start a business". Later, they also ate pears on the day of Jingzhe, and also had the idea of "striving to honor ancestors".

3. Mongolian drum skin: Jingzhe is caused by thunder. The ancients imagined that Thor was a great god with wings and a bird's beak, holding a hammer in one hand and hitting many drums around his body in the other, making rumbling thunder. Jingzhe day, heaven has thunder god beat the drum, the world also uses this opportunity to drum skin. "Zhou Li" volume 40 "waving people" chapter said: "Every time the drum will be opened to the day of sting. "Note: " Jingzhe, Mengchun also, dormant insects began to hear thunder and move, drum, take the image also, emerge, Meng drum to change." It can be seen that not only the ecology of a hundred insects is consistent with the operation of the four seasons of the year, but also the human beings, the spirit of all things, must conform to the weather, so that everything can achieve twice the result with half the effort.

4,"hit the villain" drive bad luck: Jingzhe symbolizes the beginning of February, will be a thunder on the ground, wake up all hibernating snakes, insects and ants, the reptiles at home will rise again, foraging everywhere. Therefore, in ancient times, on the day of the sting, people would hold fragrance, wormwood, smoke the four corners of the house, with fragrance to drive away snakes, insects, mosquitoes, rats and mildew, over time, gradually evolved into the habit of beating the right person and driving bad luck, that is, the predecessor of "beating the villain". Therefore, every year on the day of the sting, there will be an interesting scene: the woman slaps the paper doll with wooden slippers while muttering: "hit your little head, hit you until you are angry and trembling, hit you to eat relatives and vomit".

5, to express inner anger: many people will "hit villain" deified, in fact, this is purely folk custom, hit villain is intended to represent the opponent by beating the paper doll, drive the villain around the god of plague, vent inner dissatisfaction, most people to hit villain, the general purpose is to seek the new year everything goes well, no villain to shake, and be "hit" object, mainly mistresses and work "golden finger". The purpose of beating villains is to hope that they will retreat from difficulties and express their inner resentment.