What do you mean, the dragon looks up?

The second day of the second lunar month. China ancient peace festival. Legend has it that the dragon looked up after sleeping for a winter.

The second day of this month, commonly known as Qinglong Festival.

The origin of the Qinglong Festival is related to the "fright" in the 24 solar terms. After the shock, the earth recovered and the yang rose. There is a saying in Shanxi folk proverb that "on February 2nd, the dragon looks up".

On the second day of the second lunar month, people call this day "the dragon looks up", which symbolizes that spring returns to the earth and everything recovers.

On the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, there is a proverb in China, "On the second day of February, the dragon looks up", which means that spring comes, everything recovers, and the dragon begins to sting people, which indicates that a year's farming activities are about to begin.

In the north, February 2 is also called Dragon Head-Up Day, also known as Spring Festival. It was called the picnic festival in the south and the vegetable picking festival in ancient times. China people have had the custom of "February 2nd" since the Tang Dynasty. According to records, the origin of this sentence is related to the understanding of star movement in ancient astronomy and agricultural solar terms.

"On February 2nd, the dragon looked up" was also explained in ancient astronomy. Experts say that in ancient China, 28 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 lodging houses, the horn, sound, rafter, room, heart, tail and dustpan constitute a complete dragon constellation, among which the horn is like the dragon's horn. After the spring breeze in February, the "Dragon Horn Star" appeared from the eastern horizon at dusk, so it was called "Dragon Head Up".

At the same time, spring is slowly coming to earth, and there will be more rain. On this festival, the earth turns green and spring ploughing begins from south to north. Folk proverb "On February 2nd, the dragon looked up; Big warehouse is full of small warehouses, and people have a strong desire to pray for the dragon's blessing, good weather and good harvest. Therefore, February 2, also known as "Spring Farming Festival", "Farming Festival" and "Spring Dragon Festival", is a traditional folk festival of Han nationality.