打小人 (daa2 siu2 jan2) — Villain Hitting. A Chinese Guangdong/Hong Kong folk sorcery. Demon exorcising. Symbolic objects such as a shoe is used as the villain hitter to strike paper doll villains. in Cantonese
daaˊ²打siuˊ²小janˊ²人Mandarin Pinyin: da2 xiao3 ren2
Meaning of 打小人
nounVillain Hitting. A Chinese Guangdong/Hong Kong folk sorcery. Demon exorcising. Symbolic objects such as a shoe is used as the villain hitter to strike paper doll villains.
nouna 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