Is Dragon Head Carrying a Traditional Festival

Dragon Carrying Heads (February 2 of the Lunar Calendar), also known as "Spring Plowing Festival", "Agricultural Festival", "Spring Dragon Festival", is a traditional Chinese folk festival. Every year, on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, it 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. "February 2, the dragon carries the head", ancient astronomy, ancient China with twenty-eight hosts to indicate the position of the sun, moon and stars in the sky and judge the season, every February after the spring breeze, dusk, "Longjiao star (i.e., the corner of the hosts of a star and the corner of the hosts of the second star)," on the horizon from the East Appeared on the eastern horizon, so it is called "dragon head-raising". February 2, in southern China, is the birthday of the Land God, called "land birth", in order to give the Land God "warm life", some places have the custom of organizing the "land will": family In order to warm up the birthday of the God of the Land, some places have the custom of organizing a "Land Festival": every family will raise money to congratulate the God of the Land on his birthday, burn incense and offer sacrifices at the Land Temple, and beat gongs and drums and firecrackers. Chinese folk believe that the dragon is an auspicious thing, and the master of the wind and rain, and the lunar calendar, "February 2 dragon head" this day is the day of the dragon wants to ascend to heaven; from the festival, the beginning of the second month of the lunar calendar, in the "rain", "hibernation" and "spring". Between the "rain", "hibernation" and "spring equinox", many places in China have begun to enter the rainy season, will be held in honor of the dragon to pray for rain, release, in order to seek a year of good luck and a good harvest