Entering Wenzhou Exploring Customs--February 2, Dragon Head Raising

? Under the flying red cloth, hundreds of round tables are neatly arranged in two rows, densely packed with black heads, laughing and talking people, come together to celebrate the Dragon Head Festival, but they may not know each other.

? Why is it also called the Dragon Head Festival?

? Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a region of the emperor, delayed the time of sacrifice to heaven, the Jade Emperor was furious, ordered the Dragon King to make the region three years shall not rain. The dragon king's youngest son Qinglong could not bear to see the people suffer, and secretly sent a rain. When the Jade Emperor learned of this, he knocked Qinglong out of the heavenly palace and pressed him under a big mountain. The Jade Emperor ordered the Green Dragon to return to the Heavenly Palace only if the Golden Bean blossomed.

? Lunar February 2 came, the people to the home out of soybeans and corn for turning sunshine. An old man found that these soybeans and corn look like gold beans, so the soybeans and corn fried flowers, everyone has followed suit, the "gold beans" flowers for the courtyard. The Jade Emperor saw that every household is for the blossom of the golden beans, had to release the green dragon.

? So "February 2, the dragon head" said.

? In this festival, everything is related to the dragon.

? But this mustard rice is a little bit special. It's white with a young green color, the flavor is fresh and fragrant, and the rice is fluffy and tender.

? Into the kitchen, I probed and looked, mustard chopped, meat shredded, onion minced. The knife fell quickly on the chopping board, and the sound of the chopping board was crisp and refreshing, and it made people happy.

? Cut the meat shredded into the frying pan and stir-fried, and put into the minced green onions, shrimp, mustard greens stir-fried. The original light fresh flavor, a new, a rich oil flavor into my nose, a smell, I know, the taste of food.

? Then the rice fried scattered, add hot sauce, soy sauce, thirteen spices seasoning color, and then add peanuts stir fry, turn off the fire to load the bowl, complete. The flavor of the aroma came, let people mouth-watering.

? In special times, this dragon head festival has a unique flavor.

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