What do you mean shocked today? What is the custom of being surprised?

Fifteen days after the rain, bucket handle Beidou nails. At this time, the sun runs to 345 degrees of the yellow meridian, spring thunder and thunder, and the sting insect wakes up and climbs out of the crypt, hence the name "sting".

Fried sesame cake

Sesame oil is sesame oil, which is a fatty oil extracted from sesame seeds. Sweet, slightly cold, light yellow or golden yellow oily liquid. Exposure to air does not evaporate easily. It is mainly used to treat dullness and dredge small intestine, and can also be used to treat various malignant sores, insects and baldness. Compendium of Materia Medica says that sesame oil can clear away heat and detoxify. The food fried with sesame oil is fragrant and can make the insects on the stove extinct. On this day, there is a custom of frying cakes everywhere. Commonly known as smoked insects.

Eat leek pie

On this day, leeks are made into pies because they are pungent and slightly sour, and contain volatile oil, which can dispel fatigue and promote blood circulation, warm middle-warmer and lower qi, tonify deficiency and strengthen yang, and have a disinfection effect on intestines. Leek juice can be used externally to relieve the poison of various snakes, scorpions and evil insects. If there are bugs crawling in people's ears, you can give people leek juice to drive them away.

Stir-fried thorn

In Tai Po, Guangdong and other places, every household will fry soybeans or wheat grains day and night every year, and then fry them in the spring, repeatedly saying, "Stir-fry the yellow ant claws; Spring, spring, spring, yellow ant. "This is because there is a yellow ant in the local area. As long as someone hides something like candy, it will attract a large number of yellow ants to eat, which is extremely disgusting to the locals. As a result, the custom of bombing and shaking spread. People think that this can reduce the harm of yellow ants, and there will be no ants at home that year.

Eat fried beans

In some places in Shandong, farmers will burn pancakes in the middle of the yard on the day of fright, which means smoking to kill insects. In Shaanxi, some areas have the custom of eating fried beans. People soak soybeans in salt water, then stir-fry them in the pot, making a loud noise, which means the sound of insects jumping when they are heated and tortured in the pot. In Yanbei, Shanxi, farmers eat pears on the day of fright, which means saying goodbye to pests.

Eat pears in horror.

There is a folk custom of "eating pears in surprise". There is no trace of when pears were eaten, but there is such a story circulating among the people in Qixian County. According to legend, Qu Ji, a well-known Shanxi merchant at sea, is the eldest son of Shangdang County. In the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, he took his two sons, Xin and Yi, and traded the Party's pears for coarse cloth and red dates in Qixian for profit. Over time, he had savings and settled down in Qixian County. During the Yongzheng period, the Fourteenth Canal reached the west exit, which was the day of surprise attack. His father took out pears for him to eat. He said that his ancestors sold pears to start a business and settled in Qixian after hardships. Today, you went to the west exit in surprise. Eating pears is to make you not forget your ancestors, work hard to start a business and honor your ancestors. Qu Baichuan went west to become rich in business and named the shop name "Changyuan Hou". Later, westerners followed suit and ate pears, mostly with the intention of "leaving home to start a business". Later, they were shocked and ate pears, and they also had the idea of "trying to honor their ancestors."

Curse finch.

The purpose of scaring and cursing birds is to curse birds on this day. Birds dare not peck grain until it is mature. Although it is nonsense, it is also a manifestation of farmers' love for rice. In Yiwei, Yunnan, children curse finches when they are frightened. They have to cross all the ridges in their home to go home. There is a mantra: "Golden beak finch, silver beak finch, I will curse to eat my rotten millet shell."

Sprinkle lime

It was a shocking time, and there were many ways to drive away insects among the people. Nanchang, Jiangxi fried beans on this day, called fried insects; Lime will be removed near the cornerstone of the pillar in the b# stream area, and it is said that there are no insects and ants. Every household in Tai Po, Guangdong Province repeatedly fried soybeans or wheat in spring to drive away insects and ants. In Tianmen, Hubei, children beat drums and sticks, singing and marching, which is called catching frogs; Enshi, Hubei, spread lime all over the ground to draw a bow and arrow shape, which is called shooting insects. Jiangsu fried chestnuts on this day, which was called insect explosion; Changshu residents wrote the words "February 2nd, insects and ants go straight to the ground" on white paper with a red pen and pasted them on the feet of tables and beds to drive away insects and ants. Zhenjiang and other places use the remaining candles to illuminate insects; Songjiang has the custom of burning snake king incense.

In the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the southeast coastal provinces in China, the temperature exceeds 17 degrees Celsius for more than six months every year, and it is often above 3 degrees Celsius in winter, with a warm climate and more rainfall. The air in each season is also extremely humid, which is most suitable for the reproduction of various parasites. Among them, the most harmful ones are Anopheles mosquitoes, lice, fleas, hookworms and bloodshot worms. The constitution of southerners is far less than that of northerners, which is also a big reason. Therefore, pest control in South China is more important and urgent than in North China. There is a proverb in Fujian: "If you are afraid, you will not kill insects, and you will be poor until May."

Lime is pungent in temperature and slightly toxic, which can absorb moisture and make objects dry, solid and non-corrupt. This is its characteristic. In medicine, it is mainly used to treat malignant sores and epilepsy. When used with salt, it can also heal wounds, coagulate blood and stop bleeding. Storing lime in a crock and collecting food can prevent moisture, corrosion and insects. "A Thousand Women's Moon Order" says that removing the lime from the threshold can completely drive away insects and ants in this shocking day.