Fujian February 2nd Dragon Heads Up Customs

Fujian February 2nd Dragon Heads Up Customs include shrine festivals and get-togethers.

In Fujian, there are both dragon head-raising festival customs and customs based on the festival society. Because the earth carries all things, gathering wealth in the ground, southern China generally worship the land god, the land god, also known as the community, the god of society, the god of the earth, the land god, Fude Zheng Shen, the Hakka people called "land Bo Gong". February 2 (in ancient times, the spring community is the fifth e day after the spring, the autumn community is the fifth e day after the autumn) social day festival is mainly to worship the land and get together for social drinking, through the gods, entertaining the gods and entertaining people.

Fujian Putian folk "February 2, the dragon carries the head, tooth festival, big meal" custom, the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as February 2, Putian people say February 2 for the first tooth, and with the 16th of Lunar New Year's Day, the end of the tooth equal importance. According to the local dialect, do tooth is also called a tooth festival. The so-called tooth festival, in the "Modern Chinese Dictionary" notes that: "the original refers to the beginning of every month, the middle of the month to eat a meal with meat, and later referred to the occasional meal to eat a hearty meal".

To the second day of February, it is the first time in a year to do teeth, so it is called the first tooth. The first tooth of the day, according to traditional practice, the stores to dusk around the time of the store, the fruits of wine and food, etc., incense and candles, burn "tribute silver", firecrackers, and so on. The city put the offerings in front of their own store, the countryside to the fields, the community temple sacrifices to the land god, praying for a good harvest. Then, to the gods of the blessed surplus, invited to hire friends craftsmen dinner, not invited, it means that the "dismissal".

Customs

February 2 is the time when dragons raise their heads, and many foods are associated with them. Beijing folk food, a kind of thinly branded cakes, also known as pancakes, the northern region is also fashionable consumption of noodles, dumplings and so on. Every year on the first day of spring, Beijingers eat spring pancakes, called "Biting Spring". On the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, Beijingers also eat spring pancakes, called "eat dragon scale".

In the northwestern region, people prevailed in the "Division of money dragon", the morning sun is not out of the mountains, every family to carry a teapot, to the river or well to go to draw water. According to the projections of the year several dragons to rule the water, put a few coins or coins in the teapot. After drawing water, they would pour a trail of water as they went, and when they returned home, they would pour all the remaining water and money into the water tank, and the money dragon would be drawn home, which meant that they would be rich in the year. It is especially important not to talk when "drawing the money dragon" so as not to frighten away the money dragon.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Dragon Carrying Heads