What does it mean that the dragon looks up on February 2?

It means that spring has come, everything has revived, and the dragon has begun to move, which indicates that a year's farming activities are about to begin.

Folks say that the second day of the second lunar month is the day when the dragon king, who is in charge of sex and rain in the sky, looks up. After that, the rain will gradually increase. The so-called "dragon heads up" means that after hibernation, all insects begin to wake up. So as the saying goes, "On February 2nd, dragons looked up and scorpions and centipedes appeared." Therefore, this day is also called "Spring Festival".

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The story of the dragon looking up comes from ancient astronomy. In ancient times, people used 28 nights to indicate the position of the stars, and judged the seasons accordingly.

The ancients divided the astrology near the ecliptic into 28 groups, indicating the positions of the sun, the moon and the stars in the sky, commonly known as "twenty-eight nights", as a reference for astronomical observation. The "Twenty-eight Hostels" are divided into four groups according to the four directions of east, west, north and south, resulting in "four elephants": black dragon in the east, white tiger in the west, suzaku in the south and Xuanwu in the north. "Accommodation" means living. If you observe the movement of the moon, you basically stay for one night every day, 28 nights in turn, about one month, so it is called "lodging".

The seven nights in the East are called Jiao, Kang, Earth, Fang, Xin, Wei and Ji, which form a complete dragon-shaped astrology. People call it the Black Dragon of the East, in which the horn represents the dragon horn, Kang represents the dragon's throat, the Pleiades represents the dragon's claws, Xin represents the dragon's heart, and Wei Heji represents the dragon's tail.

In winter, these seven nights in the Black Dragon are hidden under the horizon and can't be seen after dusk. At the vernal equinox, at dusk, rhinoceros horns appear from the eastern horizon. At this point, the whole body of the black dragon is still hidden below the horizon, and only a corner is exposed, so the black dragon looks up. Looking up at the vernal equinox, the sky rises in midsummer, and the autumnal equinox dives deeply. They all refer to the subtle changes of black dragon's seven nights, but there are not really beasts and dragons changing. "Looking up at the vernal equinox" means that at the vernal equinox, angular beams begin to appear in the sky, and the oriental black dragon appears with the dragon looking up.