Why do you keep dragons and cut your hair on February 2?

Around the second day of the second lunar month is one of the 24 solar terms. After hibernation, on this day, the dragon was awakened by the rumbling spring thunder and stood up. Therefore, the ancients called the second day of the second lunar month the Spring Festival, also known as the Dragon Head Festival or the Qinglong Festival.

On this day, people go to the river to worship the dragon god. So the barber shop is empty all month, and the business is very light. On February 2 nd, people who cut their hair were in an endless stream.

In the past days, there was a folk saying: "If you have money, you can shave your head in the New Year." On this day, girls can get their ears pierced.

In fact, the saying "On February 2nd, the dragon looked up" is related to ancient astronomy. In ancient China, twenty-eight nights were used to indicate the positions of the sun, moon and stars in the sky and to judge the seasons. In the twenty-eight lodgings, the horn, sound, fork, room, heart, tail and dustpan form a complete dragon constellation, and the horn is like the horn of the dragon. After the spring breeze in February, the dragon horn star appeared from the eastern horizon at dusk, so it was called "the dragon looked up".