The implication of dragon dance on February 2 nd

The second day of the second lunar month is the Dragon Head Festival, also known as the Dragon Head Festival or the Spring Dragon Festival, which is one of the traditional festivals in China. Dragon dancing has a good meaning.

It is between rain, shock and vernal equinox. Spring returns to the earth, and everything revives. In winter, animals crouching in caves begin to wake up, and the legendary dragon wakes up from a deep sleep. On February 2, the dragon looked up; Big warehouse is full, and small warehouses are constantly flowing, which places people's strong desire to pray for the blessing of dragons, good weather and abundant crops.

Fuxi, one of the ancient Huang San, once cultivated land on the second day of February every year. The purpose is to set an example for the officials and people and encourage them to be diligent. Later monarchs followed suit, so it became a festival again.

Historical source

In the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Han listened to the doctor Jia Yi's advice of "storing and thinning" and advanced the spring ploughing ceremony to the first month of each year. Since then, the Spring Farming Festival and February 2nd have been divided into two festivals. In the ancient royal family, a very grand spring ploughing ceremony was held in the first month of each year. On that day, I will plow the fields myself and persuade farmers to plant mulberry. However, the folk festivals and custom sacrificial activities on February 2nd still remain.

On February 2 nd, the festival of raising the head of the dragon first appeared in the northwest, among the adherents of the Zhou Dynasty. Slavery prevailed in the Western Zhou Dynasty, countries in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty fell apart, and the world was in chaos. In ancient times when science and technology were underdeveloped and human life was as cheap as dirt, whenever people could not survive, they would pin their hopes for survival on inhuman gods, thus forming the worship of dragons.