清末民初,在现代公共卫生事业尚未产生之前,河南民众普遍是靠民间防疫活动祛病避邪的。即便到了公共卫生事业已在乡村零星出现的民国时期,广大民众仍然更愿意秉承民间传统,结合当地的风物和民俗,以自发的防疫避瘟活动来驱除病魔。这种自发的群体性的民俗防疫活动,往往是和 At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, before the modern public health undertakings had come into being, Henan people generally resorted to ill-gotten gains by private epidemic prevention activities. Even in the period of the Republic of China where the public health undertakings had sporadically appeared in the villages, the general public were still more willing to inherit the folk traditions and combine the local scenery and folklore with the spontaneous epidemic prevention and quarantine activities to get rid of the disease. This kind of spontaneous mass group epidemic prevention activities are often and