Why do you keep dragons on February 2?

People call this day "the day when the dragon looks up" because the second day of the second lunar month is around the "shocking" solar terms. Many animals, such as snakes, earthworms and frogs. In winter, if you don't eat or drink, you will go into hibernation, which is called "entering the sting". By February 2nd, the weather was getting warmer, and some insects and animals seemed to be awakened from their sleep by the sunshine and thunder in spring, so this festival was named "Jing Zhe". In fact, the dragon looks up. The four elephants are blue dragon, suzaku and white tiger, and the seven nights in the black dragon gradually rise from the horizon. The head of a dragon is a hornbeam tree.

Around the second day of February, spring returns to the earth, and people expect dragons to kill all harmful poisonous insects and expect a bumper harvest. This is the saying "On February 2nd, the dragon looks up".

Because the lunar calendar is used, the second day of the second lunar month is just before and after the "shocking" solar terms, and it has entered the mid-spring season in February of the lunar calendar. At this time, the sun is rising, the earth is recovering and the vegetation is sprouting. It is very necessary for farmers to plow and sow in spring to keep the soil moist and moisture. If it rains at this time, it is really precious, so there is a saying that "spring rain is as expensive as oil".

In terms of solar terms, early February is between "rain", "fright" and "vernal equinox" among the 24 solar terms. This is a period of both rain and rain. How people hope to achieve the purpose of rainfall by praying for dragons. Moreover, the rise of the dragon also indicates that the sun is an elf emerging from the ground, so all kinds of stingers feel that they are starting to move, so they are shocked by the solar terms.