——Mouse——

Writer Liu Zongyuan had a fable in the Tang Dynasty, wrote to a person whose stature was born every year, " the mouse , the sub spirit too, because love mice ". There is one besides with example of personage's lookses in Liu Zongyuan's fable , see " the clear barnyard grass is copied ": "Yancheng have any the host think copies of life mouse Xiao domestic animal's cat too, see mice, prohibit people's catching often. As time passes, the mouse multiplies greatly greatly, Japan jumps the roof beam and comes in and goes out, defy people. "

Once there was woman festival in history. Generally in the 25 evenings of the first month of the lunar year, every household does not light a lamp at that night, the whole family sit in the warmer end of a kang of the central room, say a word , is it eat use of " mouse claw claw " that make ,etc. food to feel about in the dark , produce sound for give mouse marry daughter provide convenience, so as not to offend mice , bring the hidden danger to the coming year. Three is light year that residents in Taiwan think the emolument, the legend is wedding day of mouse on the third day evening, " get married by mouse " of folk paper-cut the reflection of faith, so does not light a lamp late into the night, spreading the rice , salt on the ground, people will go to bed in the morning, do not influence the happy event of the mouse .

Avoid mouse's failed customs in the area of Shanghai in old times. The mouse goes out to look for food, slips and falls, is called " the mouse fails ", it is said person who see more for being unlucky , only if disease kill promptly , must Rang solve. Method its to beg rice along the street , call one hundred rice , go home in order to cook, can be dissolved after the food. Chinese of Hubei river plain area regard little first night as mouse marry day such as woman , commonly called as " the mouse brings the case ". That day, the surface cake that every family would want to insert the flower was placed on the dark place, forbade husking rice with mortar and pestle, rubing the surface, the adult child is forbidden to make noise, if alarm mice, will do mischief the coming year. There is custom of " steaming the blind mouse " in some areas of Qinghai. Annual lunar calendar is 14 days of the first month of the lunar year, family expenses one pinches into 12 mice, does not pinch eyes in the family, then steamed and familiar with with the food steamer, wait to furnish with the altar on the Lantern Festival , click and light the lamp to burn joss sticks, begging mice to only eat the grass root, don't injure the crops, this year have a bumper harvest in order to protect. On day of the first something small and hard of the first month of the lunar year of lunar calendar, the Koreans want to carry on the smoked mouse's fire folk custom activity this day. The children of the peasant family let go and lay the straw and light at the low bank , in order to achieve and cook and cut weeds and drive away the purpose of the field mouse. The folk custom activity, is it deratize , kill worm to help, plant ash can also fertilize the soil . In addition, the son belongs to the mouse on day, fire smoked mouse fire once this day, its symbolic right to use people have received satisfication psychologically.

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