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What is the date of this year's dragon head? What is the custom of dragon head up

Dragon head up on February 2. What month and date is this year's dragon head? Do you know? What's the origin and customs of the dragon's head? I think many people have a half understanding of it. Don't worry. Today's Xiaobian will take you to understand the traditional culture of February 2.

What's the date of the dragon's head on February 2, 2019

Friday, March 8, 2019

February 2nd, 1909, lunar calendar

What custom does the dragon head up

Eat dragon food

On February 2, there is a certain fastidious diet. The diet on this day is mostly in the name of dragon. Eating spring cakes is called 'eating dragon scales', eating noodles is' supporting dragon whiskers', eating rice is called' eating Longzi ', eating wonton is called' eating longan ', and eating dumplings is called' eating long ear '. All this is to awaken the Dragon King and pray to the Dragon King for a good harvest.

Of course, different regions have different food, but it is a common custom to eat spring cakes. It is recorded in the book "drink Zhong Zhi" of the Ming Dynasty: "on the second day of February, every household used millet flour and jujube cake to fry it in oil, or white flour and thin stall as pancakes, named & lsquo; smoked insect & rsquo.

haircut

On February 2, the barber shop was very busy. Everyone has to have a haircut on this day. There is a saying that people don't cut their hair in the first month of the year. Many people don't cut their hair for a month after they have their hair cut in December. Instead, they wait until February 2.

Why do people have to have their hair cut on February 2? It is said that shaving one's head on this day will bring good luck and good fortune. Therefore, the folk saying goes, "if you shave the dragon head on February 2, you'll have a mental head all year round". It seems that if you cut your hair on this day, you'll get a good haircut.

haircut

Pick up the girl

Another important custom on February 2 is to pick up the girl, that is, the mother's family takes back the married daughter. Therefore, there is the saying of "take the girl on February 2.". People in Northern Jiangsu have a lot of etiquette. In the first month, a girl can't live in her mother's house. She has to go back to her mother's home on the second day of the new year's day. However, on the second day of February, the mother's family came to pick up her daughter and stay for a few days. First, she had been busy in the first month and was very tired, so she took her back to her mother's home for a good rest; the second was that the new year was just beginning and was busy again, so she should be rewarded.

In the days when she was picked up, the girl went to the door to chat, in addition to eating and drinking. She was relaxed and happy. And the city people "take the girl" means that the girl and her son-in-law bring them back to have a good lunch. This custom is also very popular in Beijing and most parts of the north of China, and many areas have continued to this day.

Lead the Dragon

In Shanxi, the most important custom is to lead the dragon, which is called "Si Qian Long" in the northwest of Shanxi Province. Before the sun rises in the morning of February 2, every household has to carry buckets to the river or well to get water. When drawing water, there are copper coins in the bucket. When you carry the water, you can sprinkle it while walking. When you get home, you pour the remaining water into the water tank, which will lead the Qianlong back. Don't talk when quoting Qianlong, so as not to scare away Qianlong.

In the eastern part of Henan Province, on the morning of February 2 of the lunar calendar, every family must use the ash in the furnace to store in the yard and outside the gate, that is, plant ash is scattered on a long handled shovel into a circle, and then different grains are placed at the center of the circle. This is actually a kind of wish for a good harvest of grain.

Sacrificial Society

In southern China, the custom of "February 2" is still in use, such as in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions. In addition, a new "February 2" custom, which is similar to the dragon head raising festival custom, but mainly a sacrificial society custom, has been formed, such as in the Hakka area in Eastern Guangxi.

The land God was called "she" and "Sheshen" in ancient times. It is said that it was the God who managed the land. Because of the worship of the earth. After entering the agricultural society, the belief in land was linked with the abundance and failure of crops. The land God is widely worshipped in the south of China, also known as' earth God 'and' Fu Zheng God '. Hakkas call it' land uncle '. The main activities are offering sacrifices to the land and gathering social drinks to entertain people by worshipping and entertaining gods.

Dragon Head Raising Day

Taboo items on February 2nd

There are many taboos during February 2. The most common is that women are not allowed to use scissors, needle and thread. They are afraid to stab longan and wear it to the tap. They also avoid cutting the dragon head with a knife. In addition, many places in Shanxi and Hebei avoid carrying water in the morning. It is widely believed that if you get up to carry water in the morning, you will carry the Dragon back home. In Suide, Shaanxi, it is believed that carrying water early will touch the dragon head. Bad luck.

Hebei Xinhe, Shandong Teng County are bogey on the day of grinding, afraid of pressure on the head. Shandong Dongming area in the first afternoon of February to clean up the mill. Put up the upper and lower fans of the mill. Do not use it. Because the local people think that the stone mill is the dragon head, so the dragon head Festival should lift the dragon head. Until now, although the grinding surface does not use stone mill, but to this day. All the flour milling machine shops have to stop working for fear that they will break the dragon head.