The content of the February 2nd Dragon Heads Up Handbook

The content of the February 2nd Dragon Heads Up handbill is as follows:

Festival Folklore Yearbook: February 2nd Dragon Heads Up

The second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, China's folk "February 2, the dragon carries the head" proverb, indicating that the spring is coming, the recovery of everything, the stinging dragon began to move, heralding the start of the year's agricultural activities. In the north, February 2 is also called Dragon Head Raising Day, also known as the Spring Dragon Festival. In the south, it is called Treading Green Festival, which is also known as Pick Vegetable Festival. Since about the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese have had the custom of celebrating February 2nd. According to records, the origin of this phrase is related to the ancient astronomical knowledge of the operation of the stars and agricultural festivals.

Ancient Chinese astronomical observation mode, in the circumference of the ecliptic to determine the 28 constellations, known as the 28 hosts. The ancients divided these 28 constellations into 4 palaces according to the southeast, west, north and west, with 7 hosts in each palace, and attached the four palaces to 4 animals according to their images. Among them, the 7 constellations of the Eastern Palace were visualized as a huge dragon stretching from north to south, consisting of 30 stars.

The stars are relatively immobile, when the position of the Earth's rotation so that the Dragon constellation and the sun in the same direction, the sun's light will drown out the starlight, people will not see the dragon in the sky; and after a period of time, the position of the Earth is shifted, the Dragon constellation will re-emerge, and so on and so forth, the ancients found this law, and use it to judge the season.

On this day in ancient times, the folk to the green bag containing hundreds of grains, fruits and seeds to give each other, called the "dedication of the child". To brew "Yichun wine" to sacrifice the hook mang god, praying for a good year. Officials were also required to read the book of agriculture to show that they had to do their work. Green is the color of the east, and the dedication to each other of a variety of seeds contained in green cloth pockets, which are connected to seeds and seeds, and the dedication to others of the wishes for farming and the prosperity of the family, is the basis for a neutral relationship.

The "Dragon's Head" and "Hibernation" festivals often fall on the same day. Hibernation is hiding, and the dragon's head is the submerged dragon rising from its slumber, which is called hibernation - "the great rising that disturbs everything." The dragon exhales as thunder, thunder out of the ground excited, all things respond to the same, is the same thunder. Thunder wind line, thunder wind phase thin, it triggered the spring of vitality.