What is the Dragon Head Festival

The Dragon Heads Festival, also known as Dragon Heads Raising or Spring Dragon Festival, is celebrated on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar.

Historical origin of the Dragon Heads Festival:

The second day of the second lunar month as the Dragon Heads Festival officially began in the Yuan Dynasty, when the Analyzing Jin Zhi recorded that the second day of the second lunar month was called the Dragon Heads Festival.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, the festival began to prevail, the Qing Pan Ronghong, "Imperial Capital Years and Years of Jisheng" records: the second day for the Dragon Heads Day. Villagers use the ash from the door winding cloth into the house kitchen, circling the water tank, called for the dragon back. All people with corn flour, jujube cake, wheat and rice and other things fried in oil for food, said fumigating insects. Because ancient China is farming-based, so people attach great importance to agriculture, the beginning of February is in the rain, hibernation, the equinoxes between the three festivals, when crops need rain period, people very much hope that through the act of praying to the dragon to achieve the purpose of rain.

What are the traditional customs of the Dragon Head Festival:

1. Getting a haircut on the Dragon Head Festival.

2. Celebration ceremony on the day of Dragon Head Festival.

3. Spreading grass and wood ash on Dragon Head Festival.

5. Burning incense at the Land Temple on Dragon Head Festival.

6. Not eating noodles on the Dragon Head Festival.