How to wear the folk dragon tail?

Hanging the dragon's tail: one of the important customs of February 2 in southern Liaoning. The dragon tail is very artistic, which combines painting, carving, cutting and folding. It takes time and material, so we must do it well in advance. Some of them begin after the Spring Festival, but they are usually on the "Dragon and Phoenix Day" on the 25th day of the first month. Dragon and Phoenix Festival is a traditional folk festival of Han nationality in southern Liaoning. On that day, every household made all kinds of dragon tails with colored paper or cloth heads. There are many kinds of dragon tails, which can be summarized into three types: one is paper dragon tails, which are made by folding, cutting, pasting and piercing various colored papers, and their forms are stacked into various flowers, usually a string of five, with colored straw in the middle and colored paper strips at the bottom. The second type is cloth dragon tail, which is made of small square and prismatic colored cloth, including cloth faucet and dragon tail, and small dragon tail made of corn flower, sorghum flower, colored cloth and peach tree strips. These little dragon tails are for children to wear on their arms or for women to wear on their heads. Third, straw and beaten tail are mixed together. Straw or corn stalk is used as raw material, cut into thin slices with ponytail, rolled into thin slices with rolling pin, cut into flowers, birds, fish, insects or figures, operas and stories with scissors according to the designed "heart diagram", and then glued together with paste according to the design. Every dish of this kind of dragon tail is a dish of flowers, such as chrysanthemum and peony, or it can be a play. Five dishes and five plays are very artistic and ornamental, and hanging on the beams is very interesting. After all kinds of dragon tails are finished, hang long dragon tails on the beams before the sun comes out on the second day of February. There is a little dragon's tail hanging on the sheepfold in the cowshed, corn flowers and peach tree strips hanging on the children's back collars, and sorghum flowers on the women's heads. The former prayed for peace at home and prosperity for future generations, while the latter had the hope of becoming a dragon.

Smoked insects: In the old society, there were many mosquitoes in the countryside, so there was the custom of smoking insects on February 2. First, fragrant chickens smoke insects. The fragrant roots of the first month were boiled in water and mashed into fragrant chicken, and then dried. At the dawn of the second day of February, all the places with insects should be lit and smoked, and then the lit spicy chicken should be used to take pictures everywhere where insects often appear. Second, light shines on insects. That is, leave lights in front of the genealogy of the fifteenth day of the first month, add new oil in the morning of the second day of February, take pictures in places where insects are infested, and say, "On February 2, dragons look up, I look up, but insects and mosquitoes don't look up." Repeat this action until you have taken photos of the corner of the house.

Other customs: In rural areas, there is a custom of not shaving their heads in the first month, so on February 2, people shaved their heads one after another, which is called "shaving the faucet". On February 2, rural women in southern Liaoning did not move a needle and a thread, saying: Move a needle and a thread, stab a longan, and it won't rain. In terms of diet, eating pig's head is the most popular.