Qinglong Festival is a traditional festival in China. What activities do people have on this day? On February 2nd, according to legend, the dragon looked up, and the original area of Jinan Prefecture was called Qinglong Festival or Spring Dragon Festival and Dragon Head Festival. Other places in Shandong are often called February 2, and Liangshan is called the Dragon Head Festival. Before the Tang Dynasty, February 2nd was not considered as a seasonal festival. During the middle Tang Dynasty, activities such as picking vegetables, welcoming the rich and climbing mountains were popular in Sichuan and Shaanxi, which were called "picking vegetables festival" and "welcoming the rich day". At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, February 2 in the north increased the content of raising the dragon's head, and gradually evolved into a festival with the main content of expelling pests and praying for a bumper harvest. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there have been some custom activities in Shandong, such as inviting dragons, smashing hoards, smoking insects in pancakes, beating beams and rats, and frying beans for good news. It is rare to pick vegetables to welcome the rich.

Nowadays, the popular custom on this day is to fry scorpion beans. Wei county, Laizhou and other places are called "good news", which is homophonic and stinging. It is said that eating fried scorpion beans will not be stung by scorpions for a year. Yuncheng and other places are called "fried scorpion claws", and children sing while eating: "Eat scorpion claws, scorpions don't have to fight." Scorpion beans are generally fried with soybeans. Some are wrapped in sugar noodles, some are soaked in salt water, which is crispy and delicious, and some are fried with noodles and scorpions, with various patterns. Eating scorpion beans can not only open scorpions, but also people say that whoever eats scorpion claws of seven families can live longer. Now, this custom is popular in other places except some areas in Jiaodong, but melon seeds and popcorn are added to scorpion beans, which is a new development of the custom of frying scorpion beans.

Many festivals and customs on February 2 of the Dragon Boat Festival are related to the dragon's head rising. On this day, in Yuncheng and other places, every household should hang the upper fan of the stone mill, called the faucet. It is said that only in this way can "rain flow everywhere and have food and clothing for a year". Weihai and other places get up early to steam cakes and worship the spring dragon. Tengzhou and other places steamed buns on this day, called "steamed dragon eggs"; Eating noodles is called "Longxu Noodles". Some places eat cakes called "Longlin cakes"; Eating vegetable dumplings is called "dragon egg". But some places don't eat noodles or drink small rice on this day, because noodles are called dragon whiskers and millet is called dragon seeds, which may affect the health of dragons. In the past, people used to cut their hair on the day when the dragon looked up, and children entered school for good luck on that day. In Haiyang and other places, white flour or soybean flour is used to make Jackie Chan, which is called a magic worm, and it is put in a grain depot and a flour jar, wishing the whole grain flour inexhaustible. In Weihai, Longkou and other places, children's hats are hung with strings of round colored cloth, which are called little dragon tails; In some places, there are recreational activities, such as playing dragon lanterns, to cope with festivals.

The diet of Qinglong Festival varies from place to place. In addition to the pancakes, noodles and steamed buns mentioned above, some people eat flower cakes, that is, climb higher and higher step by step. Longkou and other places keep a steamed cake for this day. Some people eat pancakes, and Yuncheng and other places think that pancakes can be laid on the bottom and covered with tips to prevent rats and moths and ensure the granary. People in Zaozhuang and Shanxian rest on this day to improve their lives, saying, "On February 2nd, don't work, sit down and eat big steamed buns."