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Mid-spring February Spring Dragon Festival Day (February Phenology of China Lunar Calendar)

20 16-03-26 07: 16 People's Daily Overseas Edition

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Original title: Mid-spring February Spring Dragon Festival Day (February phenology of lunar calendar)

Overseas Edition of People's Daily (2065438+060326th Edition 10)

February in the lunar calendar is the second month of spring, because it is in the middle of spring, so it is called "mid-spring". There is a saying in Historical Records Yao Dian that "birds in the sun are in the middle of spring", which means that when spring comes, you can just see the "bird" star (alpha star of Ophiuchus today) when you look up at the sky due south after dark at night.

There are many other aliases in February, such as Kazuki Watanabe musician, Li Yue, Apricot, Mid-Month, John, Central, Home, Dazhuang and Uzuki. February is a season of warm spring in bloom, so people give February so many intoxicating names (the last three names are from melody, divination and earthly branch). Important traditional festivals in February include Spring Dragon Festival, Spring Club Day and so on, and there is also a very important solar term-vernal equinox.

The Spring Festival is on the second day of February, which is the most important festival in February. The formation of the Spring Dragon Festival is related to the "Oriental Black Dragon" stars, and the "Oriental Black Dragon" seven nights is also an important star used by the ancients to set seasons. Every year at the beginning of February in the lunar calendar, the first night of the Black Dragon appears on the eastern horizon-Jiaosu, and people know that it is time to start spring ploughing. There is a folk proverb in the north of China: "On February 2nd, the dragon rises, big warehouse is full, and small warehouses flow". "The dragon looks up" means that the head of the black dragon star (marked by two dragon horns) rises from the eastern horizon, because the air in Long Zaitian is in charge of sex and rain, and when the dragon looks up, the rain will increase. At this time, we must not miss the farming season, and we can sow in time before autumn.

Having a haircut on the second day of February is called "shaving". According to the custom in many areas, you can't get a haircut in the first month.

Having a haircut on the second day of February is called "shaving". According to the custom in many areas, you can't get a haircut in the first month, otherwise it will bring disaster to your uncle. Having a haircut on the day when the dragon looks up will bring good luck, so many people shave their heads on the second day of February. There is also a saying in old Beijing that "on February 2nd, scorpions and centipedes have nowhere to hide". Scorpions and centipedes who are about to recover light candles on the beams and smoke them down, because dragons are the king of scale insects, and they can exterminate insects and plague with the help of faucets. This is called "attracting dragons to smoke insects".

There is also an important festival in February-Spring Festival.

It is a bit complicated to determine the date of the Spring Festival club. The calendar stipulates that the fifth "E Day" after beginning of spring is a social day. The so-called "May Day" refers to the days with "E" in the "official calendar". In this way, the lunar calendar date of Spring Club Day changes greatly every year, but it is basically in February. Looking at the Gregorian calendar, Spring Festival always falls within five or six days before and after the vernal equinox. This year's Spring Festival falls on the ninth day of February (March in Gregorian calendar 17).