Is February 2 Dragon Heads Up a traditional holiday?

Dragon Heads Raising is a traditional festival. February 2 is also known as Spring Plowing Festival, Agricultural Festival, Spring Dragon Festival, is a traditional Chinese folk festival. It is the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year, which is said to be the day when dragons raise their heads. The Dragon Head Festival is celebrated to honor the dragon and pray for rain so that God will bless the harvest.

Origin of Dragon Head Raising

The second day of February, commonly known as the Green Dragon Festival, is a traditional festival in rural areas of China, named Dragon Head Festival. In the north, February 2 is also called Dragon Heads Day, also known as the Spring Dragon Festival. In the south, it is called Treading Green Festival, which is anciently known as Pick Vegetable Festival. Since about the Tang Dynasty, Chinese people have had the custom of celebrating February 2nd. Chinese folk believe that the dragon is an auspicious object, in charge of clouds and rain, and the day of the second month of the lunar calendar is the day when the dragon wants to ascend to heaven. In terms of festivals, the beginning of the second month of the lunar calendar is between rain, hibernation and the spring equinox, and many places in China have begun to enter the rainy season. This is a law of nature, but the ancients believed that this was due to the dragon. Moreover, the dragon has a very high status in the minds of the Chinese people, not only is it a thing of auspiciousness, but also the master of harmonizing the wind and rain. Therefore, there is a February 2, the dragon head said.

Customs of the Dragon's Head

February 2 and there are many customs about the dragon's head, such as shaving the dragon's head, fried corn, open the pen to write, avoiding needles piercing the dragon's eyes, eating dragon food.

Shaving the dragon's head: refers to the second day of February haircut, children's haircut, called shaving the head of joy, borrowing the dragon's head of auspicious times, blessing the children healthy growth, grow up to be a man of the world; adult haircut, the old year to welcome the new, hope to bring good luck, the new year smoothly.

Fried corn: Legend has it that the tradition of fried corn on February 2 every year is to commemorate the righteous dragon to solve the suffering of the drought on earth, and even at the expense of offending the rules of the sky. Legend has it that the Jade Dragon was imprisoned by the Jade Emperor because he could not bear the suffering of the people in drought and helped the people to bring down rain, and made a rule that only the blossoming of the golden bean would be released. The people were grateful for the Jade Dragon's act of charity and gathered together to fry corn, which looked like the blossoming of golden beans and caused the guardian of the Great White Star to look at it wrongly, and released the Jade Dragon. The tradition of frying corn on the second day of the second month of every year has been preserved.