打小人
daa2 siu2 jan2dǎ xiǎo rén
English
- a Chinese custom akin to a Voodoo doll, where a person can hire someone to use a wooden block or shoe to hit a man-shaped piece of paper with another person's name and birth date (or other details) on it, believing that it can curse one's enemy with bad luck
- a ritual offered to those who wish to do harm to an enemy which involves beating a cut-out representation of the person, i.e. a form of sympathetic magic, particularly popular at the Spring solstice; literally: to beat the little person
粵語 — Cantonese
- 一種詛咒或泄憤嘅傳統民間儀式，大力打代表某個人嘅小型人形紙樣；喺驚蟄當日（西曆三月五日或者六日）特別興
Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk