What do you mean by raising your head and cutting your hair? What are the holiday customs of looking up?

Looking up at the dragon is a traditional folk festival, also known as Zhonghe Festival and Dragon Head Festival. People in many areas will have their hair cut on this day, especially children. This day has a certain meaning. In addition to cutting hair, there will be various customs and habits all over the country on the day when dragons look up. Let's get to know each other.

What does it mean that the dragon raises its head and shears its hair? Because people don't pay attention to haircuts in the first month. In many areas, there is a saying that "getting a haircut in the first month will kill your uncle". /kloc-before 0/2, children should pay attention to leaving a pinch of "uncle hair" at the back of their neck when cutting hair. Therefore, we must wait until the second day of February to take care of our own "faucet" and get a haircut on this day, then the significance of raising the dragon head and eliminating "worry" means that there is no worry, worry and sadness in a year.

It is said that the Dragon King of Guan was awakened by thunder or pious people on this day, and the rain gradually increased and everything revived. Folk call it "the dragon looks up". People don't get a haircut in the first month, but just wait in line for a haircut on this day, and take the auspicious meaning of "the dragon looks up", hoping to be proud and prosperous in this year. Children, in particular, have good academic performance and good health.

However, some places have the opportunity to cut the hair on the dragon's head, because the dragon can't move a knife or needle and thread on that day, but it's not surprising that ten miles are different.

What festivals and customs do dragons look up? There are differences in holiday customs in different regions, and some holiday customs are sorted out.

On the morning of February 2, every family must get up early. At dawn, they put some ashes in the yard with shovels and baskets. There is also a ladder outside the trash can, which means that the granary is very high and needs a ladder to get up. The ladder should be played outside, not inside. If "inside" means loading food from home. After the trash can is finished, put some grain or something in the middle. See what the chicken eats. Which chicken to eat means that the harvest this year is average. If you don't eat the rest, it means that you can have a bumper harvest, because you can't eat or eat enough.

Dragon lantern dance most villages have dragon lantern props, and young and capable young people in the village dance dragon lanterns, causing social fires. Pray for a bumper harvest and the life of the whole village will be prosperous.

On the second day of the second lunar month, all kinds of hibernating animals will wake up from hibernation one after another, and plants will begin to sprout and grow. In order not to be harmed by various insects in a year, the custom of smoking insects and eating fried beans was formed on this day. In order to drive away pests, people usually fry soybeans on this day, which is called fried bug eyes, and some are called fried scorpion beans.

On this day, some people will burn weeds and dead leaves in vegetable gardens and fields in order to kill pests with fireworks.

In some areas where sacred worms are eaten, the breakfast on February 2 is to eat sacred worms and leftover cakes provided last year. A family should eat the holy worms one by one, because it is an auspicious day, and eating the holy worms will be full of vitality and good luck in a year.

Pray for the land temple in some villages with land temples, people will come to the land temple in droves to burn paper and pray for the land god to guide the gods to drive away the disaster. When burning paper, they prayed, "The real name of the landowner is Han, and he is stationed at the head of the village. If he is not careful, he will be driven out to protect humans and animals. "

When the beams of the older generation were illuminated, there were no roofs in rural areas. After getting up, they had to light the beams on the roof with lanterns. They murmured, "On February 2nd, the beams were lit, and scorpions had nowhere to hide.".

On February 2nd, the dragon looked up and was afraid to embrace the grass. Holding grass is disrespectful to the dragon, saying that it is holding grass to skin the dragon. If the dragon skin is peeled off, it won't get to the sky, so the rain will decrease this year. This is actually a traditional holiday custom handed down from the older generation.

Taboo burning yellow, the so-called burning yellow is wildfire. It means that the dragon skin is burned, and the dragon can't go to heaven if it is injured.

Elsewhere, housewives can't do needlework on this day. Because on this day, the dragon will look up at the world, afraid that when doing needlework, the careless needle will stab the dragon's eyes. In other places, you won't go to the well to fetch water on February 2, because you are afraid of touching the tap. So fill the water tank with water in advance the day before. Don't push the mill, support the millstone with stones to avoid crushing the faucet.

For example, on the day of picking up stones, they are all off work, and they are not allowed to pat stones, saying that they are afraid of peeling Long Lin and hurting the dragon. In the old days, there was a saying that it was not broken or ground, all of which were afraid of hurting dragons.

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In fact, festivals in China are not only philosophical, but also interesting. Starting from the first month, there is a festival in the first month. On February 2nd, March 3rd, Dragon Boat Festival in May, June 6th, July 7th, August 15th, September 9th and October 1st, Laba Festival is held almost every month. On February 2nd, the festival was shocking and everything revived. The hibernating snake is also out of the hole. The snake is also called Xiaolong in the zodiac. This is a festive day for dragons to raise their heads, and farmers will start another year of hard work.

Judging from the solar terms, on February 2nd, the arthropods woke up around the time of the fright. These animals all have the characteristics of dragons. From an astronomical point of view, this is the moment when the horns of the seven stars of the East appear. The east is also called "dragon", and the horn is the head of the dragon.