Today is the second day of the first month of the second month of the lunar calendar, also known as the "Dragon Head Festival", also known as the Dragon Head Day, the Green Dragon Festival, the Spring Dragon Festival, the Spring Ploughing Festival, the Agricultural Affairs Festival and so on.
People see this day as an auspicious day, and there are many auspicious things to do on this day, such as the well-known hair cutting, which means "shaving the dragon's head". Do you know why February 2 is called "Dragon Heads Up" and why you cut your hair? What are the customs and sayings of February 2nd? Come and follow the editor to find out!
About "Dragon Heads Up"
"On the second of February, the dragon looks up"
This is the ancients looking up at the sky
The romance and magic captured
"The dragon looks up" said
Horns in the Twenty-Eight Houses (symbolizing the "Dragon Horn")
Emerges from the Eastern Horizon
At this time, the whole body of the "dragon"
Still lurking below the horizon
Only the horns are just beginning to appear
Hence the name "Dragon Heads Up"
This day
It will be held in many places
Pray for rain and release the dragon
Hope for a good year
What are the customs and sayings of February 2nd?
Dragon Ear Eater
February 2 this day
Folk food is mostly named after the "dragon"
Draught dumplings called "eat dragon ears"
Pay attention to eating "meat and vegetable dumplings"
That is, there is meat and vegetables in the filling
Take the harmonic sound of "meat dish" "rich"
It means that the money is rolling in
Eat Doudou
Quite a few places
There is also the custom of stir-frying beans and eating beans
"Eat beans on February two
People harvest without harm and disease."
Ate a variety of sautéed beans
It means that this year is over
A year of hard work is about to begin
Eat dragon scales
Eat spring cakes on the second day of February
Also known as "biting dragon scales"
Because the spring cake is round and thin in shape
It resembles scales and gets its name
Meaning "bite the dragon scales for good luck"
Cut your hair
Today's haircut is called "shaving the dragon's head",
Hope to leave the old and welcome the new,
The year gets off to a good start.
A child's haircut is called shaving his head,
Borrowing the dragon to raise its head auspiciously,
I hope that my children can thrive and turn into dragons and phoenixes.
Adults cut their hair and welcome the old and welcome the new,
I hope that the coming year will be auspicious and smooth sailing.
"The dragon looks up", good omen
In this bright spring season
Lift your own spirit head
May each of us
Don't live up to the spring light, don't live up to yourself
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Editor/Yin Xiaojie Editor-in-Charge/He Zizi Producer/Wang Zhiming
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