What's the difference between the second day of February? Pray for the great gods.

This custom was recorded in the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi's poem "February 2" said: "On February 2, the new rain is dark, and the grass-toothed vegetables are born for a while. The light shirt is ok, Ma Qing is young, and the cross is full of words. " At that time and later, people asked each other about their heritage with knives and rulers, welcomed wealth with 100 grains, melon seeds and fruits, and had activities such as picking vegetables, hiking and welcoming wealth. Yuan Fei wrote in "The Past Life in China": "On February 2nd, Youth Day, people in Renjun County visited and enjoyed the scattered suburbs. ...... ",and Wang Hao quoted" Guangqun Landscape Spectrum "as saying:" Luoyang customs take February as the Flower Lang Festival, which is also the vegetable picking festival. " After the Ming Dynasty, there were many customs about the dragon's head rising on February 2nd, such as scattering ashes to recruit dragons, helping dragons, smoking insects to avoid scorpions, shaving the dragon's head, and avoiding acupuncture longan, so it was called Dragon's Head Rising Day. Qing Xianfeng's "Wuding County Records": ... February 2 is the Spring Dragon Festival, and the kitchen is as gray as a dragon and snake, and it is called Lucky Dragon. In addition, there are activities to preserve customs, such as rushing to work, trial farming, frying scorpion beans, wearing grass, offering sacrifices to the dragon king, respecting land and grain, marrying women to live in spring, and writing by boys. Buyi people will hold a three-day festival on February 2, mainly to worship the land god. On the day of the festival, every family kills chickens to worship their ancestors and eats two-color (black and white) glutinous rice to pray for the peace of the whole village. There are many activities about dragons on this day, so it is called Dragon Head-Up Day. The custom of raising dragons' heads on February 2nd can be seen in Dong Liu and Yu Yizheng's "A Brief Volume of the Scenery of the Imperial Capital in Spring" in the Ming Dynasty: "Raising dragons on February 2nd, leaving leftover cakes on the first day of the New Year's Day, smoking on the bed, saying that insects are attracted, but insects can't come out." The Qing dynasty still followed its customs. Fu Cha Dunchong's Chronicle of Yanjing: "On February 2nd, the ancient Chinese Peace Festival was also celebrated. Let people look up. During the eclipse, those who eat cakes are called Longlin cakes, and those who eat noodles are called Longxu Noodles. Don't sew in the boudoir, lest you hurt the dragon's eyes. " The dragon is a saint in the ancient culture of China, an auspicious thing, and the master of wind and rain. As the saying goes, "the dragon doesn't look up, it doesn't rain", and the dragon looks up to make rain, and heaven and earth make love clouds to make rain, which is the condition for all things to have children. In addition, in ancient times, it was believed that the dragon was the essence of scale insects, and all kinds of insects were long. When the dragon came out, all kinds of insects hid. At the beginning of February, it is the time when spring returns to the earth and farming begins, and it is also the time when hundreds of insects are stinging and ready to move. Therefore, there are folk actions to help the dragon head, recruit the dragon head and shave the dragon head, and there are customs to eat dragon skin, dragon beard, dragon son and dragon forest cake, as well as taboos such as stopping needles and avoiding grinding. The origin of February 2, the folk proverb says, "On February 2, the dragon looks up." Around the second day of the second lunar month is one of the 24 solar terms. It is said that the hibernating dragon was awakened by the rumbling spring thunder on this day and stood up. Therefore, the ancients called the second day of February in the agricultural season the Spring Dragon Festival, also known as the Dragon Head Festival or the Qinglong Festival. Therefore, on this day, people go to the river to worship the dragon god. "China Folk Customs, Shouchunsui" says: "On the second day of February, incense is burned to worship the dragon god." As we all know, the dragon is a totem that the Chinese nation has believed in since ancient times. Therefore, we proudly declare that the descendants of the Chinese people are descendants of the dragon. For thousands of years, people have regarded dragons as mysterious mascots. February 2nd is the day when dragons raise their heads, so it naturally becomes an important folk festival, and many customs are related to dragons. In fact, the saying "On February 2nd, the dragon looked up" is related to ancient astronomy. In ancient China, twenty-eight nights were used to indicate the positions of the sun, moon and stars in the sky and to judge the seasons. In the twenty-eight lodgings, the horn, sound, fork, room, heart, tail and dustpan form a complete dragon constellation, and the horn is like the horn of the dragon. After the spring breeze in February, the dragon horn star appeared from the eastern horizon at dusk, so it was called "the dragon looked up". The Spring Festival on February 2nd has a long history. Leave many customs behind. In "Miscellaneous Notes of Ten Thousand Departments" written by Shen Bang in the Ming Dynasty, he said: "In February, dragons are attracted, and a hundred insects smoke. ..... Villagers use grey cloth to enter the kitchen from the outside and turn around the water tank, which is called "Huilong". Spread pancakes with noodles. Smoked bed kang to prevent insects. " "The History of the Forbidden City in Ming Dynasty" said: "The second day of the second day ... everyone uses millet flour jujube cakes, fried them, or spread them into pancakes with fine noodles, which is called smoked insects." Guo Chong of Fu Cha of A Qing Dynasty also said in The First Year of Yan: "On February 2nd, ... people today called on the dragon to look up. During the eclipse, the person who eats bread is called Long Lin, and the person who eats noodles is called Longxu Noodles. Don't sew in the boudoir, lest you hurt the dragon's eyes. " One of them is that this custom has been passed down to this day. In the mid-1980s, northern Henan still maintained the custom of eating millet. On the morning of February 2, every household will fry millet rice cakes, which the masses call rice cakes. Another ballad goes like this: "On February 2nd, fry rice cakes, slowly, and don't burn the old man's beard." Eat "old dragon cloth eggs" at noon. That is, corn molts, commonly known as corn and noodles. In fact, people pay attention to the various forms of "Dragon Rise" commemoration, and the fundamental reason is related to agricultural production. As this folk song says: "On February 2nd, the dragon looked up, the big warehouse was full, and the small warehouse flowed." Because February is the season for planting crops. In the era of underdeveloped science, people have placed a strong desire to pray for the dragon's blessing, good weather and abundant crops through various commemorative activities. There is also a jingle among the people: "On February 2, the dragon looked up and the emperor plowed the fields and drove the cattle; Queen Gong Zheng came to deliver the meal, and the current minister threw away the seeds. Xia Geng leads the world in spring ploughing, and the grain harvest is peaceful and autumn. "The imperial court Lao Tzu led the Manchu minister to participate in spring ploughing production, which shows the importance of spring ploughing in cooperation with farming season. In the north, February 2 is also called Dragon Head-Up Day, also known as Spring Festival. It was called the picnic festival in the south and the vegetable picking festival in ancient times. China people have had the custom of "February 2nd" since the Tang Dynasty. According to records, the origin of this sentence is related to the understanding of star movement in ancient astronomy and agricultural solar terms. Why did the dragon look up on February 2? Because February of the lunar calendar has entered the mid-spring season, at this time, the sun is in full swing, the earth is recovering, and plants are sprouting. It is very necessary for farmers to plow and sow in spring, so it is necessary to keep the soil moist and water-retaining. If it rains at this time, it is really precious, so there is a saying that "spring rain is as expensive as oil". In terms of solar terms, early February is between "rain", "fright" and "vernal equinox". This is a time when it needs to rain, and it may rain. How people hope to achieve the purpose of rainfall by praying for dragons. Why does the dragon "look up"? Because before and after the shock pad in early February, all kinds of animals that had been dormant for a winter recovered their vitality, so it's time to do something. The dragon looks up, indicating that the dragon is also moving and has to perform the duty of rainfall. However, this statement is the usual explanation of "the dragon rises on February 2", which is easy to understand. However, "the dragon looks up" has an ancient astronomical explanation and is often ignored. The ancients thought that the earth was motionless and the sun was moving. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period or even earlier, people regarded the annual orbit of the sun between stars as a circle, which is the so-called ecliptic. Then use some stars to divide the circle into 28 equal parts to form 28 intervals, called 28 places. " Accommodation means living. If you observe the movement of the moon, you basically stay for one night every day, 28 nights in turn, about one month, so it is called "lodging". Divide these 28 huts in four directions: southeast, northwest and northwest, and there will be 7 huts in each direction. For these 28 nights, they are all named. The seven hotels in the East are called Jiao, Kang, Bian, Fang, Xin, Wei and Ji, which are combined into one group and called the Oriental Black Dragon. Among them, the horn is the symbol of the dragon's head, the kang is the dragon's neck, the night is the dragon's chest, the room is the dragon's stomach, the heart is the dragon's heart, and the tail and jump are the dragon's tail. In winter, these seven nights in the Black Dragon are hidden under the horizon and can't be seen after dusk. In early February, when dusk came, hornbills appeared from the eastern horizon. At this point, the whole body of the black dragon is still hidden below the horizon, and only a corner is exposed, so the black dragon looks up. Explaining the word "dragon", Shuo Wen Jie Zi said: "Dragon is the length of scale worm. It can be quiet and clear, detailed and huge, short and long. The vernal equinox reaches the sky and the autumnal equinox dives deeply. "It all refers to the looming changes in black dragon for seven nights. It is not true that there are beasts and dragons changing." "Ascending to the sky at the vernal equinox" means that at the vernal equinox, horns began to appear in the sky, and the oriental black dragon appeared, that is, the dragon looked up.