Dragon custom

Longxu Noodles is a kind of traditional pasta, which is popular in northern China. It is a kind of slender noodle shaped like Longxu Noodles, which evolved from Lamian Noodles, Shandong Province and has a history of more than 300 years. In China, on the second day of the second lunar month, dragons look up, and the custom is to eat Longxu Noodles. Now it is a common food for residents, and it is eaten all year round.

2. Dragon Dance on Lantern Festival

Dragon dancing, commonly known as playing with dragon lanterns, is one of the traditional folk cultural activities of the Han nationality in China. Dragon dances are performed every festival to pray for peace and harvest. When dancing the dragon, the dragon follows the hydrangea to do various movements and interpenetration, constantly showing various postures such as twisting, waving, leaning back, kneeling, jumping and shaking.

3. Dragon Boat Race

Dragon boat race is an ancient Han folk activity. According to legend, after Qu Yuan, a doctor of the State of Chu in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by throwing himself into the river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the people of Chu were reluctant to part with Qu Yuan, a wise minister. Many people rowed boats to rescue the driver, which is the origin of the dragon boat race, and then rowed dragon boats on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year to commemorate it.

4.the zodiac

Dragon ranks fifth among the traditional Chinese zodiac animals in China, and the corresponding earthly branch is Chen, so it is called Chen Long. Dragon, phoenix, unicorn and Xuanwu are also called "Four Spirits".

5. Descendants of dragons

The so-called descendants of dragons mainly refer to the inheritors of dragon blood. They believe that ancient ancestors are the product of the intercourse between man and dragons, and secondly refer to the inheritors of dragon's fearless spirit.

In addition to the Han nationality, China Baiyue Zhuang Dong Tai Lao Shan Mang and other ethnic groups are said to have been born because Shennong married the dragon daughter of Dongting Jun. One of the ancestors of Miao nationality, Chiyou, is said to have two horns, and some ethnic minorities in Northeast China, such as Tibetan Mongolians and Manchu, also worship dragons.