There was a festival in history when mice married women. Generally, on the 25th night of the first month, every household doesn't light a lamp that night, and the whole family sits on the kang in the hall, silently eating food such as "mouse claws" made of flour in the dark, so as to provide convenience for the mouse to marry a daughter, so as not to offend the mouse and bring hidden dangers to the next year. Residents in Taiwan Province Province think that the third day is a small year, and it is said that the night of the third day is the day when mice get married. The folk paper-cut story of "mice get married" is a reflection of this belief. Therefore, people who don't light a lamp at night, sprinkle rice and salt on the ground and go to bed in the morning will not affect the happy event of mice.
Liu Zongyuan, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a fable about a person born in the second year, "Rats are gods because they love rats". For another example similar to the characters in Liu Zongyuan's fable, see Ren Lei Copy in Qing Dynasty: "What's Yancheng's surname? The master thinks that the core relic of life is a mouse, but he doesn't have a cat. When he sees mice, he needs to forbid people to catch them. For a long time, the mice were very happy, going in and out every day, not afraid of people. "
In the past, there was a custom in Shanghai to avoid the failure of mice. When a mouse goes out for food, it falls to the ground, which is called "mouse failure". It is said that most people you see are unlucky. If you are sick, you will die. You must solve it. Its method is to beg for white rice along the street, call it 100 meters, go home and cook, and it will be solved after eating.
In Jianghan Plain, Hubei Province, the first night is regarded as the day when mice marry women, commonly known as "adding boxes to mice". On that day, every household should put bread with flowers in the dark, and it is forbidden to grind rice and flour. Adults and children are not allowed to make noise. If they disturb the mice, they will make trouble in the coming year. There is a custom of "steaming blind mice" in some areas of Qinghai. Every year on the 14th day of the first lunar month, family members knead dough into twelve mice without pinching their eyes, and then steam them in a steamer. After the Lantern Festival, they put them on the table, lit a lamp to burn incense, and begged the mice to eat only grass roots and not hurt crops to ensure a bumper harvest in a year. On the first day of the first lunar month, the Korean people will smoke rats and make a fire on this day. The farmer's children scattered straw on the ridge, lit it, burned the weeds and drove away the voles. This kind of folk activity is beneficial to killing rats and insects, and plant ash can also fertilize the fields. In addition, Purple Day is a mouse. On this day, people are psychologically satisfied with its symbolic right to use.