February 2 what festival

February 2 is the Dragon's Head Carrying Festival, also known as Spring Plowing Festival, Agricultural Festival, Green Dragon Festival, Spring Dragon Festival, etc. It is a traditional Chinese folk festival.

In the Yuan Dynasty, the second day of the second month of February was known as the day of the dragon's head. The second month of the lunar calendar has entered the mid-spring season, "February 2" in the twenty-four solar terms "rain", "hibernation", "equinoxes "Between. Since ancient times, people in the mid-spring "dragon head" this day to honor the dragon to pray for the dragon to eliminate disasters and blessings, wind and rain, a good harvest.

Lunar "February 2", both "dragon head-raising festival", but also the birth of the land god "Social Day Festival". Southern "February 2" (ancient times for the spring after the fifth e day) still follow the sacrifice of the community (land god) customs, such as in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions, both similar to the dragon head-raising festival customs, but also to the sacrifice of the community customs based on the new "February 2" customs, the South The south generally worship the land god. p>"Dragon head-raising is a reflection of the ancient Chinese farming culture for the festival, which originated from the worship of natural celestial phenomena, and is related to the understanding of astronomy on the operation of the stars and agricultural festivals in the ancient times. Ancient Chinese astrological culture has a long and profound history, and the ancients began to explore the mysteries of the universe at a very early stage, and thus deduced a set of complete and profound stargazing culture.

The purpose of the ancient people's observation of the sky was to determine the time, so as to provide services for agricultural production. "Dragon head" has a long history of origin, appeared in the literature will be associated with the festival is after the Yuan Dynasty. Since ancient times, people have also taken the Dragon's Head festival as a day to pray for good luck and good fortune.

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