The second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, known as the "Dragon Head Festival", commonly known as the Green Dragon Festival, also known as Dragon Head. Dragon head, is a traditional Chinese folk festival, Han Chinese have, other ethnic groups also have. Legend has it that this festival originated in the period of Fuxi, the head of the Three Emperors.
February 2, according to legend, is the land lord's birthday, called "land birth", in order to give the land lord "warm life", some places have organized the "land will" custom: family In order to warm up the life of the Land God, some places have the custom of organizing a "Land Festival", where families gather money to congratulate the Land God on his birthday, burn incense and offer sacrifices at the Land Temple, and beat gongs and drums and firecrackers.
Celebrating the "Dragon Head Festival" to show respect for the dragon and pray for rain, so that the old heavenly blessings to ensure a good harvest. Therefore, this day, people will go to the river to sacrifice the Dragon God. The Chinese National Customs and Records - Shouchun Yearly Record" said: "On the second day of February, incense was burned on the banks of the water to sacrifice to the Dragon God."
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Legend has it that when Wu Zetian became emperor, the Jade Emperor ordered that no rain should fall on earth for three years. However, the Jade Dragon, who was in charge of the Heavenly River, could not bear to see the people suffer and starve, and secretly sent down a heavy rain, and when the Jade Emperor learned of this, he knocked the Jade Dragon out of the Heavenly Palace and pressed it under a big mountain. A monument was erected under the mountain, on which it was written: The Dragon King violated the rules of heaven by sending down rain, and should be subjected to a thousand sins on earth. If you want to climb back up to the Spirit Pavilion, you have to do it when the golden beans are in bloom.
People searched everywhere for the blossoming golden beans in order to save the Dragon King. By the second day of the second month of the following year, people are turning over the golden corn seeds, suddenly remembered, this corn is like the golden beans, fried flowers, is not the golden beans blooming?
So every family popcorn, and set up in the yard burning incense, for the "blossom of the golden beans", specifically for the Dragon King and the Jade Emperor to see. Dragon King knows that this is the people in the rescue it, shouted to the Jade Emperor: "Golden Bean blossomed, let me out!" The Jade Emperor took a look at the golden bean blossoms opening in every yard on earth, so he had to pass an order and edict the Dragon King to return to the Heavenly Court and continue to give rain to the earth by raising clouds and spreading rain.
Since then, the folk formed a habit, every February 2 this day, people will pop corn flowers, there are also fried beans. Adults and children also read: "February 2, the dragon carries the head, big warehouse full, small warehouse flow." Some places in the yard with the stove ash sprinkled into a large circle, the grains and cereals in the center, called "playing hoard" or "fill warehouse". The intention is to wish the year a bumper crop, warehouse hoard full.