Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - What's the use of raising your head and cutting your hair on February 2?

What's the use of raising your head and cutting your hair on February 2?

Shaving the tap, one of the customs on February 2, means that children get a haircut on February 2, which is called "shaving their heads". It is an auspicious time to take advantage of the dragon's head to wish children healthy growth and get ahead when they grow up. Adults get haircuts, say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, hoping to bring good luck and a smooth new year.

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After the shock, it is a good time for everything to grow, and this kind of crops can be planted.

As a solar term with the fastest annual temperature rise, except for the winter scenes in the northeast and northwest, the average temperature in most parts of China has risen above 0℃, the daily average temperature in North China is 3-6℃, the temperature in the south of the Yangtze River is above 8℃, and the temperature in Southwest China and South China is above 10- 15℃, which is already a harmonious spring and sunny.

"Twenty-four solar terms" said: "February Festival, everything vibrates, and when it vibrates, it thunders, so it is called thunder. It's an escaped cockroach. "Modern meteorological science shows that the occasional thunder before and after the" panic "is caused by the increase of the earth's humidity, which leads to the rise of hot air near the ground or the strong and frequent northward movement of hot and humid air.

Judging from the natural phenological process in various parts of China, due to the large span between north and south, the time when spring thunder begins to ring is different in the morning and evening. On the average for many years, thunder can be heard in southern Yunnan around the end of 1, and the first thunder day in Beijing is in late April. The saying that "thunder begins with you" only conforms to the climate law in the south of the Yangtze River basin.