The custom of shocking solar terms in ANT FOREST

(1) covering the drum skin. Fear is caused by thunder. Thor, as the god of nine days, has a lofty position. The ancients imagined Thor as a bird's beak, a winged god, holding a hammer in one hand and knocking on many drums around his body in the other, sending out rumbling thunder to shake the world, so there was a custom of offering sacrifices to Thor in the past. On this shocking day, Raytheon played drums in the sky, and the world also took this opportunity to cover the drums. The article "Swinging People" in Volume 40 of Zhou Li said: "Whoever beats the drum starts to stab it."

(2) "Beat the villain" to drive away bad luck. The thorn symbolizes the beginning of February, when a thunder on the ground wakes up all the hibernating snakes, insects, mice and ants, and the reptiles and ants at home will get up and look around for food. Therefore, in ancient times, people would smoke the four corners of their homes with incense and wormwood to drive away snakes, insects, mosquitoes, rats and musty smells. Over time, it gradually evolved into the habit of those unhappy people slapping their opponents and driving away bad luck, which is the predecessor of "beating villains".

(3) Sacrifice the white tiger to resolve right and wrong. In Guangdong, there is a custom of "offering sacrifices to white tigers to resolve right and wrong". It is said that the white tiger is the god of tongue, and it will come out for food on this day every year, opening its mouth to hurt people. The so-called white tiger sacrifice refers to the white tiger painted with paper for sacrifice. Paper tigers are usually yellow and black, with a pair of fangs painted on the corners. When offering sacrifices, you need to feed it with the blood of the fat pig, so that it won't hurt people after eating it, and then put raw pork on the mouth of the paper tiger, so that it is covered with oil and water and can't open its mouth to tell people right and wrong.