Shu Bit, a Qing Dynasty writer, wrote a poem entitled "Qian Miao Bamboo Poem - Red Miao": "Weaving Ban Si is not given away, and transferring to the copper drums to race
Shan Shen, the two feelings of the veins are silent, and tonight the empty room is to avoid the Yin." (Note: Red Miao only Tongren Province, clothing all with Ban silk, women's red as a matter of business. Strike the copper drum to inspire, the name is tuning the drum. May c every year, couples do not sleep, do not dare to
speak to each other, thought to commit tiger injury.) Yin for the tiger, who dared to violate the custom of avoiding Yin, May Yin day if the couple sleep in the same room, the tiger will hurt them. It is the custom of avoiding Yin that has been passed down in some local folklore.
White Tiger God is the guardian deity of ancient Chinese Taoism, originally for the name of the ancient star officials, twenty-eight stars in the west of the seven lodges, because of its tiger shape is located in the west of the west, according to the five elements with the five colors, so it is called. It is also one of the gods of the four directions. Li Ji - Qu Li on the "before the Zhu Bird, after the Xuan Wu, the left blue dragon, the right white tiger" said. Tujia more
Believe in the white tiger god, Hubei Tujia sacrifice white tiger, palm altar division to use a pig knife to cut their own head to bleed, drop in the paper money, hanging after burning. Hunan Tujia children get feet wind disease, often thought to be caused by the White Tiger must be
Shamans to drive away the "White Tiger". Drive, to put a chair in the outdoor, tied to the bamboo with branches and leaves, on the bundle of a white rooster, by the sorcerer in the indoor spell, if the rooster crowing, the white tiger even if the drive away.
Shanxi has a child-rearing custom of sending cloth tigers. When a child reaches the full moon, the uncle's family will send a tiger made of yellow cloth, and when entering the front door, the tiger's tail will be broken off and thrown outside the door. Send cloth tiger is to wish the child to grow up as strong as the tiger; break the tiger tail, it is hoped that the child in the process of growing up free from disaster. Shanxi is popular throughout the child-rearing custom of sending a tiger pillow. Whenever a child's birthday, when the uncle to send nephew a or a pair of tiger pillows, not only as a pillow, but also as a toy, but also expressed blessings.
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Belt popular "hanging tiger bun" marriage customs. Welcome the new, the male uncle's family to steam a pair of tiger buns, tied with a red rope in a harvest, the bride arrived, the tiger buns will be hung on her neck, removed after the door, by the bride and groom to share the food, the table
Shows that the two with the date. It is worth mentioning that this bun also has a male and female points, the head of the male tiger bun has a "king" word, said the man to be the king of the house; female tiger bun forehead in a pair of birds, said the wife with the husband to fly. Each tiger
neck there is a small tiger, said wishing the newcomers an early birth.