Why can glutinous rice exorcise evil spirits?
Because glutinous rice can be hanged to detoxify, it is often taken out of Hong Kong films to detoxify corpses. According to the classical legend of China, if a ghost wants to pass through a paddy field, it must count all the rice in this paddy field before it can pass. Make zongzi from glutinous rice and throw it into the river for fish to eat, lest they eat Qu Yuan. Therefore, it has the function of exorcism, and glutinous rice itself has the function of removing garbage from the body.
Other sayings of glutinous rice
Glutinous rice has been one of the main foods of China people since ancient times. In ancient times, whether a person had money or not was just how much morale he had and how much fertile land he could have every year. Therefore, it represents good luck and auspiciousness. The so-called auspicious characteristics of yin and yang, or gas field, is precisely the taboo of evil spirits. In addition, folk old people think that glutinous rice is sticky, and sticky things are inherently absorbent, which will absorb some bad things around them, such as viruses or evil spirits.