Today is the second day of February in the lunar calendar, the day when the dragon raises its head, and it is a traditional festival of mainland folk.
Legend has it that there is a saying that "shave the dragon's head on the second of February", so today many people will go to get a haircut and ask for a good head. Speaking of "the dead uncle who cuts hair in the first month", after a month, most people need to get a haircut.
So, do you know why there is a saying that "the uncle died in the first month of the haircut" and "the second dragon looked up in February"? Let's take a look at it with Xiaobian!
Originally, "the dead uncle who cut the hair in the first month" was misinformed, and at first it was only used to express the thoughts of the previous dynasty, which was actually "thinking of the old", and it was passed around as "dead uncle".
About "Why does the dragon look up on February 2"? This has to start from the astronomy of the ancient times, when astronomers, in order to let everyone better observe the celestial phenomena, divided the stars near the ecliptic into twenty-eight groups, that is, "twenty-eight houses".
The "Twenty-Eight Lodges" are divided into four groups according to the four directions of east, west, south, north, and south, into four groups: the Eastern Dragon, the Western White Tiger, the Southern Suzaku, and the Northern Xuanwu, but in the Eastern Group, there are also 7 groups of Horns, Kang, Qi, Fang, Heart, Tail, and Ji to form a dragon-shaped astrological sign, that is, the "Eastern Dragon", and the Horns are the Dragon Horns. Soon after the night of mid-spring each year, Kakuju appears from the eastern horizon, but other parts are hidden below the horizon, so it is called "dragon head".
Now, do you understand?
Source: Popular Science China