Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - What do you mean by raising your head and cutting your hair? What are the holiday customs of looking up?

What do you mean by raising your head and cutting your hair? What are the holiday customs of looking up?

Wanglong is a traditional folk festival, also known as Zhonghe Festival and Dragon Head Festival. People in many areas will have their hair cut on this day, especially children. This day has a certain meaning. In addition to cutting hair, there will be various customs and habits all over the country on the day when dragons look up. Let's get to know each other.

What does it mean that the dragon raises its head and shears its hair? Because people don't pay attention to haircuts in the first month. In many areas, there is a saying that "the haircut in the first month killed the uncle". Children before 12 should pay attention to leaving a pinch of "uncle hair" at the back of their neck when cutting hair. Therefore, we have to wait until the second day of February to take care of our own "faucet" and get a haircut on this day. Then it means to look up and get rid of "worry", which means that there is no worry, worry and sorrow for a year.

It is said that the Dragon King of Guan was either awakened by thunder or by pious people on this day, and the rain gradually increased and everything recovered. Folk call it "the dragon looks up". People don't get a haircut in the first month, but just wait in line for a haircut on this day, taking the auspicious meaning of "the dragon looks up", hoping to be proud and have good luck in this year. Children, in particular, are successful in their studies and healthy.

However, some places have the opportunity to cut their hair on the tap, because the dragon can't move a knife or a needle and thread, but it's not surprising that it's ten miles different.

What festivals and customs do dragons look up? There are differences in holiday customs in different regions, and some holiday customs are sorted out.

On the morning of February 2, every family has to get up early. Just before dawn, they put some ashes into the yard with shovels and baskets. There is a ladder outside the trash can, which means that the granary is very high and needs a ladder to get up. The ladder should be played outside, not inside. If "inside" means loading food from home. When the trash can is finished, put some grains or something in the middle. See what the chickens eat. Which chicken to eat means that the harvest this year is average. If you don't eat the rest, it means that you can't eat or have enough, and you can have a bumper harvest.

Dragon lantern dance most villages have dragon lantern props, and young and capable young people in the village dance dragon lanterns, causing social fires. Pray for a bumper harvest and the life of the whole village will flourish.

On the second day of the second lunar month, all kinds of hibernating animals will wake up from hibernation one after another, and vegetation will begin to sprout and grow. In order not to be harmed by all kinds of insects in a year, the custom of smoking insects and eating fried beans was formed on this day. In order to get rid of pests, people usually fry soybeans on this day. This practice is called frying insect eyes, and some are called frying scorpion beans.

On this day, some people will burn weeds and dead leaves in vegetable gardens and fields to kill pests with fireworks.

In some areas where caterpillars are eaten, the breakfast on February 2nd is caterpillars and leftover cakes provided last year. The family should eat the holy worm one by one, because it is an auspicious day, and eating the holy worm will be full of vitality and good luck in a year.

Pray for the land temple in some villages with land temples, people will come to the land temple in droves to burn paper and pray for the earth god to show his spirit to drive away the disaster. While burning paper, they prayed: "The real name of the land Lord is Han, and he is stationed at the head of the village. If he is not careful, he will be driven out to protect people and animals. "

When the beams of the older generation were illuminated, there was no roof in the countryside. After getting up, they want to use lanterns to illuminate the beams on the roof. They mumble, "On February 2nd, the beams were illuminated, and scorpions had nowhere to hide.".

On February 2 nd, the dragon looked up, and it was forbidden to hold grass. Holding grass is disrespectful to the dragon, saying that it is holding grass to skin the dragon. If the dragon skin is peeled off, it can't go to the sky, so the rain will decrease this year. This is actually a traditional holiday custom handed down from the older generation.

Taboo burning yellow, the so-called burning yellow is wildfire. It means that the fire hurt the dragon skin, and the dragon was injured and could not go to heaven.

Elsewhere, housewives can't do needlework on this day. Because on this day, the dragon will look up at the world, afraid of being accidentally pricked in the dragon's eyes when doing needlework. In other places, you don't go to the well to draw water on February 2, for fear of hitting the faucet. So fill the water tank with water one day in advance. Don't push the mill, support the millstone with stones for fear of crushing the tap.

For example, on the day of picking up stones, they were off work, and they were not allowed to pat stones, saying that they were afraid of peeling Long Lin and hurting the dragon. In the old days, there was a saying that there was no pressure and no grinding, all of which were afraid of hurting dragons.