What day is February 2nd?

On the second day of the second lunar month, the dragon looks up. Celebrity Dong Liu's "A Brief Introduction to the Scenery of the Imperial Capital" said: "On February 2, the dragon looked up and fried the leftover cakes of the New Year, smoked kang and smoked insects; If you attract a dragon, the bug won't come out. "As the saying goes,' If the dragon doesn't look up, it won't rain'. "The dragon is auspicious and the master of wind and rain." Spring rain is as expensive as oil. "People pray for the dragon to raise its head to make rain and nourish everything. At the same time, February 2 is just before and after the fright, all kinds of insects are ready to move, which is prone to diseases. People pray that the dragon will look up and stop poisonous insects. After the first month, the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival, the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar is another traditional folk festival called "Dragon Head Up" Day. On this day, people are used to eating fried peas, popcorn and "chess beans" when they were young. Children are only excited about this magical pea, regardless of "the dragon looks up", so that they don't understand it after eating peas for decades. Why are you eating this? In fact, after the first month, spring will sprout and everything will be reborn. At this time, farmers should prepare for a year of spring ploughing production. At this time, the solar term has nearly fainted. After a winter hibernation, all kinds of insects have begun to wake up. The most typical thing is that ants are starting to come out of the hole. When I was a child, I watched ants fight countless times and forgot to eat. You will never see ants before hibernation. In ancient times, people could not control the pests and diseases in nature, so they could only pray for the supreme mascot to subdue all insects and make the weather favorable. "Dragon" is the highest mascot in the hearts of China people, and it is the embodiment that dominates the world. Therefore, on the second day of February, people hope that dragons will appear and bring good luck to people through various ways of sacrifice and worship. Therefore, on February 2nd, there is a custom of "painting dragons back" in many parts of the country. "Shen Mingbang's Miscellaneous Notes on 10,000 Parts" said: "People call February 2nd the dragon head, and villagers scrape ash into the kitchen from the outside and swirl around the water tank, which is called drawing a dragon to look back. "That is, scatter plant ash into the shape of a winding dragon, and scatter it into the house from behind, thinking that this can lead to the real dragon, subdue all insects and bring spring rain. So the custom of this day is not to sweep the floor, so as not to dirty the dragon's eyes. In the early morning of this day, northern women will beat the edge of the pot with a stick, which means "shocking" and hang it on the beams with colored paper, which is called "wearing a dragon's tail". In Shaanxi area, "chess beans" made of flour are fried and eaten by children, which is called "biting insects". The original intention is to kill intestinal parasites and eat fried beans, which means to bite off the tail of scorpions, because scorpions are the first of the five poisons and are intended to ward off evil spirits and repel insects. In some places in Jiangsu, people fry popcorn on this day, thinking that it will blind the eyes of pests and make them stop hurting people and crops. At that time, the old Beijingers said, "On February 2nd, as the beams were illuminated, scorpions and centipedes had nowhere to hide. ".People try to use dragons to refer to the food and activities on February 2nd, out of hope that dragons will fall from the sky and turn clouds into rain. For example, eating cakes is called eating "dragon skin", eating jiaozi is called eating "dragon ears", eating noodles is called eating "dragon beard" and eating rice is called eating "dragon son". Children shaving on this day is called "scraping the tap", while women don't do needlework on this day, saying it is to avoid hurting "longan". In addition, every household eats bean jelly and scatters the whole grain with green ash. In some villages, there is also the theory of eliminating green ash and preventing five poisons. The formation of the custom of eating fried beans and bean jelly on the second day of the second lunar month is said to be related to a folklore. According to legend, after Wu Zetian seized the political power in the Tang Dynasty, she was renamed Zhou and claimed to be the emperor. When the Jade Emperor in the sky knew this, he flew into a rage and ordered Taibai Venus to tell the Four Seas Dragon King not to rain on earth for three years. This can be bitter for the people all over the world, and people can't help crying. Yulong, who was in charge of Tianhe, could not bear the suffering of the people. He drank enough water from Tianhe and sprayed it on the earth, saving all the people. When the Jade Emperor learned of this, he put the Jade Dragon on the mortal world, nailed it at the foot of the mountain, and erected a stone tablet, which read: "Jade Dragon Rain violated heaven and should be punished by the world for generations. If you want to go back to Lingxiao Pavilion, unless the golden beans bloom. "People try their best to save Yulong. On the second day of the second lunar month this year, people found that corn and soybeans were golden and shiny, much like golden beans. When the beans are fried, don't the golden beans bloom? As a result, the news spread, and many families fried a lot of corn and soybeans, some for the yard and some for Yulong. The mountain that suppressed Yulong was too white and dusty by Venus. On this day, Venus Taibai discovered that the world was golden, and thought that the golden beans were blooming, so she collected the dust. Yulong just took off and returned to the sky. This is the season when spring rain is as expensive as oil. Yulong ignored the jade emperor's ban and began to rain. Since then, people have been used to frying corn and eating bean jelly on the second day of the second lunar month.