The 2022 Lunar River Village February 2 Ancient Temple Fair
Author: Xue Yuchun
March 4, 2022, is the second day of the second month of the second lunar month. In the folk, it is also known as "Dragon Head", also known as "Spring Ploughing Festival", "Agricultural Festival", "Green Dragon Festival", "Spring Dragon Festival", etc., which is a traditional Chinese folk festival. "Dragon" refers to the Oriental Dragon Seven Stars in the Twenty-Eight Houses, and it is also a sacred beast revered in people's minds. At the beginning of the mid-spring moon of each year (dou refers to the east), the "dragon horn star" rises from the eastern horizon, so it is called "dragon head up".
Folk have such a saying:
On the second of February, the dragon looked up.
The wind and rain are good, and the harvest is good.
Big tun full, small tun stream.
Good year, the beginning of spring.
Good days, generations to come.
……
Therefore, the folk celebrate the "Spring Dragon Festival", and all localities carry out similar commemorative activities according to their own customs and habits.
February 2, is also our Gaotang Zhenjiang Village Yaowang Cave Temple Fair, when this temple fair began, it is impossible to verify. However, on the second of February every year, the local people with a radius of nearly 100 miles come to the place and spontaneously gather in the Yaowang Cave to pay homage to commemorate the Yaowang Sun Simiao.
According to legend, the medicine king Sun Simiao (541-682), a native of Jingzhaohuayuan (present-day Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province), a Tang Dynasty medicinal scientist and Taoist, was revered by posterity as the "Medicine King". Born in a poor peasant family, the medicine king Sun Simiao was brilliant from an early age, and when he grew up, he began to love the Taoist Lao Zhuang doctrine, and during the Sui and Tang dynasties, he saw many state affairs, wars, and the people were miserable. Sun Simiao lived here in seclusion, treating the suffering of the poor people in the local area...
Later, in order to commemorate him, people burned incense here every February 2 to pray for health and peace, smooth wind and rain, and abundant grain!
On The second of February this year, the sky is clear, the sun is shining, the spring breeze is gentle, Vientiane is fresh, and it is the season of agricultural leisure. People fade their heavy cotton clothes, change into brisk spring clothes, help the old and the young, walk together, visit temple fairs, see beautiful scenery, enjoy food, listen to Qin dialect, gossip, pray for peace, so that the whole activity atmosphere is thick, the grand situation is unprecedented, and the liveliness is extraordinary.
Happy and shocking gongs and drums, swing away the dullness of midwinter!
Sunshine man, forever dancer!
Dance dragon lanterns and pray for good luck.
Descend the ganlin and ensure a good harvest.
Good luck, good omen.
Karma flourishes, pray for peace.
Good health, sweet days.
Send blessings, blessings full of house.
Happy Boundless.........
Dragon heads up, may our good days have a head start, and all things have a good start!
I work, I am happy!
Sweet and soft mirror cake (alias)
Hard work and happiness!
Gaotang's specialty, persimmon fried noodles
A happy and happy life is among us all...
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Original author: Xue Yuchun
Finishing editor: all the way to the wind, Huazhou literature and history