Watercolor on watercolor paper

Beating villains is a custom of traditional Chinese folk beliefs, and its origin can be traced back to ancient times. People believed that villains would bring bad luck, so they used villains to express their dissatisfaction and anger and hoped to transfer bad luck to villains, so as to obtain peace and harmony. happiness.

In Hong Kong, beating villains is also a traditional folk belief activity. Among them, beating villains on Bowrington Street in Causeway Bay is a relatively well-known activity. This activity is usually held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Participants will beat kraft paper figurines to pray for peace and happiness. In the process of beating the villain, participants need to beat the villain with bamboo sticks or shoes in order to pray to the gods to ward off disasters.

Since Bowrington Street is called Goose Neck Street in Chinese, the artist drew the store owner as gooses to fit the theme.