What interesting activities do De 'ang people have about the custom of Dragon Boat Festival?

On February 2 nd, the dragon looked up, and eating and drinking was as important as before, especially eating pig's head, which was called dragon's head. But in the Republic of China, people who ate dragon teeth, dragon hair and dragon forest didn't hear much about it, and some places changed slightly. It is the characteristic of the times to add some new things like foreign soy sauce or tomato juice to westernize it. On this day, farmers call it "eating dragon eggs" with vegetables as a group and "eating dragon whiskers" with noodles as soup cakes.

Hairdressing, as the saying goes, "the dragon doesn't look up, it doesn't rain." The dragon is auspicious and the master of weathering rain. On the second day of the second lunar month, people pray for dragons to raise their heads to make rain and moisten everything, which is called "shaving the dragon's head on the second day of February" in history. Therefore, the folk proverb says, "scraping the tap on the second day of February keeps you in good spirits all year round." On February 2, every barber shop was full of customers and the business was booming.

In addition, there is a folk saying in our country that "my uncle died in the first month", so many people don't go to the barber shop for a month after cutting their hair in the twelfth lunar month until February 2. However, this folk taboo has gradually faded in recent years. However, in fact, my uncle's death in January was misinformed. Not cutting your hair is "nostalgia" rather than "death", which is a custom that has been passed down from the late Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty.

It is understood that due to the different hairstyles of the Ming and Qing dynasties, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the Qing Dynasty ordered all citizens to have their hair cut. At that time, in order to miss the Ming Dynasty, some people did not cut their hair in the first month to show their "nostalgia", but they could not openly confront the Qing government, so there was a saying that "my uncle died in the first month", which has been passed down to this day.

There are many folk activities around the Dragon Head Festival, which are very rich in content, mainly including: On the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Head Festival used to be a day to worship the dragon god. On this day every year, people will go to the Dragon Temple or the water's edge to burn incense and offer sacrifices to the Dragon God, praying that the Dragon God will revive the clouds and turn rain into rain to bless the harvest. However, in many areas, especially in the south, people still regard the second day of February as the "land public sacrifice day" and hold social sacrifices to worship the land god.

The custom of scattering ash has a long history and is still popular in many rural areas. Ash used for spreading ash is usually wood ash, but there are also lime or chaff. The specific practices vary from place to place, as follows: sprinkling ash in front of the door is called "blocking the door to prevent disasters"; Scattering ash in the corner is intended to "destroy the insects"; Scatter the ashes in the yard, make them into circles of different sizes, and symbolically put some whole grains, which are called "hoarding" or "smashing ash" to wish a bumper year; Sprinkle ash on the edge of the well and call it "Huilong" for good weather. Spraying methods vary from place to place. Generally, it starts from the well, meanders all the way, enters the kitchen, surrounds the water tank, and the gray line twists and turns constantly, which is very interesting.

Smoked insects, in February of the lunar calendar, the weather turned warmer, and all kinds of insects began to stir. Some insects are harmful to people's health, so on February 2, people spread pancakes and burn incense in succession, hoping to drive away poisonous insects with smoke. Beating a beam is to beat a beam with a wooden stick or bamboo pole to scare away poisonous insects such as snakes and scorpions, so as not to cause harm. In some places, it is popular to knock on the edge of the kang for the same purpose as knocking on the beam.