It is one of the 24 traditional Chinese solar terms, usually on March 5 or 6 every year, marking the official beginning of spring, when the weather is getting warmer and everything begins to revive and grow.
As the saying goes: A thunderstorm starts, and all things are born in spring. The sting is the day when the heavens and the earth thunder and all things recover. Why is it called "stunning"? Let's take a look at the word "sting", the top is an attachment, and the bottom is a worm, which can be interpreted literally as: a hundred insects insist on hiding under the ground and do not come out. The word "surprise" means that the spring thunder will wake up all things, including the insects that hibernate underground, and there is also the beginning of the "thunder starts, all things are born". But in reality, many insects cannot hear thunder. And they end their hibernation because they perceive the change in climate, so they will "run away", so the stinging solar term has become a "watershed" for the recovery of all things.
Let's take a look, according to the wisdom of the ancients, what kind of customs are there on this day? The plan of the year lies in spring, first of all, on this day, you should get up early and don't sleep lazy. And eat three things:
1.Pears: Eat pears in shock, and wish yourself all bad things to stay away. The weather is significantly warmer when the sting occurs, and people are prone to dry mouth and coughing. The pear is cold and sweet, and has the effect of moistening the lungs and relieving cough, nourishing yin and clearing heat. Eating pears at this time is very nourishing for the body. Pears, homonym "away", in ancient times, also meant that eating pears can keep oneself away from diseases, keep insects away from crops, and obtain a good wish for a bumper harvest.
2.Beans: Eat beans in surprise, wishing yourself to become rich and thin. In ancient times, everyone would fry soybeans at home on this day. Fried beans, also known as fried insects, because the sound of soybeans crackling in the pot is like the sound of insects being fried and fleeing in all directions, and people believe that such a sound can scare away pests, implying repelling insects and warding off evil spirits. At that time, people believed that pests would come out in response to the sting season and bring disaster to crops, so people used fried beans to drive away pests. I hope that agriculture will have a bumper harvest and a bumper harvest of grains. Therefore, as the saying goes: If you eat beans and beans, people will not get sick, and the land will be harvested.
3.Eggs: Eat eggs in shock, and wish yourself what you want this year. The ancients believed that the white tiger was the god of the tongue, every year when the sting, all things germinate, the white tiger also has to come out to forage for food, open the mouth to hurt people, and the boiled egg can block the mouth of the white tiger, so eat eggs on this day, avoid the battle of the tongue, and try to have a peaceful house.
In addition, if possible, you can order moxa sticks at home and smoke them around the house to drive away bad luck and some small insects that wake up due to stinging.
Finally, I wish you all to grow together with all things and welcome the spring of the new year.