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Dragon Head-raising Festival, a 30-word introduction.

Dragon Head Raising (the second day of the second lunar month), also known as "Spring Farming Festival", "Agricultural Festival" and "Spring Dragon Festival", is a traditional folk festival in China.

Festival custom

1, stir-fry corn. It is said that the tradition of stir-frying corn on February 2nd every year is to commemorate Yi Long's efforts to solve the human drought, even at the expense of breaking the dogma. People get together to fry corn because they appreciate Yulong's kindness. Because it looks like golden beans in full bloom, the responsible Taibai Venus made a mistake and released Yulong. The tradition of frying corn on the second day of February every year has also been preserved.

2. Shaving the tap refers to getting a haircut on the second day of February, and giving a haircut to a child is called "Happy Head". When the dragon looks up, it will bless the healthy growth of children and get ahead when they grow up; Adults get haircuts, say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, hoping to bring good luck and a smooth new year.

3, eat sugar beans, Linyi people have February 2, farmers began to prepare raw materials for fried sugar beans. On the morning of February 2, every household fried peanuts and soybeans with sugar. Some places are called sugar beans, some places are called scorpion beans, and some places are called popcorn. In the past, they used to cook their own food, but now it's different. There is usually no home cooking.