What is the legend of February 2nd Dragon Heads Up?

The proverb "February 2, the dragon carries the head", legend has it that in ancient times, Guanzhong area drought did not rain, the Jade Emperor ordered the East China Sea small dragon to go to sow rain. Little dragon playful, head into the river no longer come out. There was a young man who went to the cliff to pick up the "Dragon Bucking Water" and stirred up the river. The little dragon revealed its head from the river and competed with the young man, and the little dragon was defeated and had to broadcast rain. In fact, the so-called "dragon head-raising" refers to the hibernation, the insects began to wake up. Therefore, as the saying goes, "On February 2, the dragon raises its head, and scorpions and centipedes show their heads."

Story 2

"On February 2, the dragon raised its head, and spring rain fell everywhere. The thunderbolt startled the world, how could I know that the Dragon King had sorrow in his heart." In this earthy nursery rhyme, there is a touching story.

A long, long time ago, the Dragon King of the East China Sea gave birth to three dragon sons, but lacked a dragon daughter. The king thought that it would be great if he had another princess and two sons and daughters! When the Queen Mother knew about this, she gave the Dragon Mother an elixir, and soon the Dragon Mother became pregnant. On the second day of the second month of the following year, the dragon mother did give birth to a white, chubby daughter.

The little princess grew up day by day, tired of the life in the Dragon Palace, and longed to go to earth to find true happiness. The mother of the dragon knew her daughter's heart, and she advised the princess, "My child, the dragon palace is carefree and has everything it wants, so why go to earth?" The dragon lady said, "The dragon children and grandchildren only know how to eat, drink and have fun, I must go to the earth and look for a life with real fun." The Dragon Mother saw that her daughter was determined. She quietly sent her out of the Dragon Palace and gave her a pouch.

The dragon maiden reluctantly bid farewell to her mother, flew over ninety-nine rivers, crossed ninety-nine mountains, and came to a big mountain, the princess looked around, only to see that the land near and far were dry and cracked their mouths, and the crops were hanging their heads low, and the sun was scorching hot and baking the earth, and not far from there, a young man labored strenuously in a field, and the princess went over, and asked, "In such a dry day , will you get any harvest from your farming?" The farmer smiled bitterly and said, "What can I do? My old mother at home still relies on me to feed her!" The dragon lady sympathized with him, took out a few red beans from her pouch and sprinkled them into the ground, and in a while, a thick fog rose in the field, and the parched seedlings turned green. The farmer hurriedly bowed to her and said, "Fairy Goddess, there is a great drought for hundreds of miles around here, please save the poor people." The dragon lady was very touched, she thought, "He is really a good man, thinking of others. He is really my soulmate! So she grabbed a handful of red beans from her pouch and threw them up into the sky, and suddenly the electricity flashed and thunder roared, and a heavy rain fell soundly. After the rain cleared, the mountains were green, the crops were green, and people had a smile on their faces. The young man thanked the girl gratefully, the princess's face flew up red clouds, said: "Do not thank me, just pray for a hundred years of good relations between us." The young man heard this, and sweetly led the girl home.

Then again, the princess left the Dragon Palace to run away from the matter was known to the Dragon King, the Dragon King is very annoyed, but also does not allow the dragon mother to go to see their daughters. The mother of the dragon misses her daughter every day, and every year on the second day of the second lunar month, she floats out of the sea and lifts her head in the direction of her daughter's departure and cries bitterly. Her cries turned into thunder and her tears into spring rain.

Story 3

There is another way of saying "February 2" is called the Spring Dragon Festival. Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi (Explaining Characters in Chinese) recorded: "The dragon, the longest among the scales, can be dark and bright, fine and huge, long and short, ascends to the sky at the spring equinox, and dives into the abyss at the fall equinox." This is probably the earliest record of the custom of "Spring Dragon Festival".

Legend has it that when Wu Zetian became emperor, the Jade Emperor ordered that no rain should fall on earth for three years. But the Jade Dragon in charge of the Heavenly River could not bear to see the people suffer and starve, and secretly sent down a heavy rain, and when the Jade Emperor learned of this, the Jade Dragon in charge of the Heavenly River was knocked down from the Heavenly Palace, and pressed under a big mountain. A monument was erected under the mountain, which reads: The Dragon King violated the rules of heaven by sending down rain, and should be subjected to a thousand sins on earth. If you want to climb back up to the Spirit Pavilion, you have to do it when the golden beans are in bloom.

People searched everywhere for the blossoming golden beans in order to save the Dragon King. To the second day of the second month of the next year, people are turning golden corn seeds, suddenly remembered, this corn is like the golden beans, fried flowers, is not the golden beans blossom? So every family popcorn, and set up in the yard burning incense, for the "blossom of the golden beans", specifically for the Dragon King and the Jade Emperor to see. The Dragon King knew that this is the people in the rescue it, shouted to the Jade Emperor: "Golden Bean blossomed, let me out!" The Jade Emperor took a look at the golden bean blossoms opening in every yard on earth, so he had to pass an order and edict the Dragon King to return to the Heavenly Court and continue to give rain to the earth by raising clouds and spreading rain.

Since then, the folk formed a habit, every February 2 this day, people will pop corn flowers, there are also fried beans. Adults and children also read: "February 2, the dragon carries the head, big warehouse full, small warehouse flow." Some places in the yard with the stove ash sprinkled into a large circle, the grains and cereals in the center, called "playing hoard" or "fill warehouse". The intention is to wish a year of grain abundance, warehouse hoard full. Festivals, the name of the food is also commonly added to the title of the "dragon". Eat dumplings called to eat "dragon ear"; eat spring cakes called to eat "dragon scale"; eat noodles called to eat "dragon beard"; eat rice called to eat "dragon child "

This is the first time I've ever seen a Chinese woman eat a Chinese food dish, and I've never seen one.

This day, other customs are also many, before getting up, read "February 2, the dragon raised head, the dragon does not raise my head." After getting up, but also hit the lantern to shine the beams, while shining while reading: "February 2, shine the beams, scorpions and centipedes have nowhere to hide." In some places, women do not move the needle and thread for fear of hurting the eyes of the dragon; in some places, they stop washing clothes for fear of hurting the skin of the dragon, and so on.

From a scientific point of view, the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar is in the "hibernation" before and after the earth began to thaw, the weather is gradually warming up, the farmers said goodbye to idle farming, began to work on the ground. Therefore, in ancient times, the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar was also known as the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar. Therefore, the Spring Dragon Festival, which is prevalent in Chinese folklore, was also called the "Spring Plowing Festival" in ancient times. It is said that on this day, if you have not woken up, the booming thunder will come to call it.