When did the dragon look up?

In traditional customs, the dragon rises on the second day of the second lunar month, and then the rain will gradually increase, indicating a bumper harvest this year.

We often call talented and capable people "dragons", and vice versa. He also entrusted an important task to a capable person and was ready to throw off his arm to do great things. As the saying goes, it is called "the dragon looks up".

The folk proverb says: "On February 2nd, the dragon looked up; The big warehouse is full and the small warehouse flows. " It is believed that the second day of the second lunar month is the day when the dragon in charge of clouds and rain rises, and then the rain will gradually increase, indicating a bumper harvest this year. Therefore, this day is called the Spring Festival. "Shuo Wen Jie Zi" contains: "The dragon, the scale worm's length, can be quiet and bright, can be long and short, the vernal equinox reaches the sky, and the autumn equinox is deep."

On the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, it is the beginning of the Spring Dragon Festival, which scares the dragon to look up, and the vernal equinox dragon ascends to heaven. On February 2 nd, it was also called "the dragon looked up". Dong Liu, a Ming Dynasty man, said in Spring Field, Volume II of Scenery of the Imperial Capital: "On February 2nd, the dragon looked up, fried the leftover cakes of the New Year, smoked the bed kang, and said," Smoke insects ":it means that the dragon is attracted and the insects can't get out."

Amin Shen Bang's Miscellaneous Notes also said: "People call February 2nd' the dragon looks up', and villagers scrape ash into the kitchen outside the door and swirl around the water tank, which is called' the dragon looks up'." "The imperial court also attached great importance to this festival." On February 2nd, makeup was removed in front of each palace, and each family fried it with millet flour and jujube cake, or spread it thinly as pancakes, which was called "smoked insects". ?