Dragon head to eat pork, noodles, dumplings, sugar beans, pancakes and so on.
February 2 this day in the diet of certain precautions, the people of the north this day diet more to "dragon" name. For example, eat spring cake is called "eat dragon scale", eat noodles is called "eat dragon beard", eat wontons for "eat dragon eye", eat dumplings is called "eat dragon ear Eating dumplings is called "eating dragon's ear". In addition, noodles, wontons, a piece of cooking called "dragon take pearl", and eat green onion cake called "tear dragon skin".
February 2 customs, February 2 is known as the Dragon Head Festival, with a variety of dragon related folk activities to pray for peace and a good harvest has become a custom throughout the country. Also known as the Spring Plowing Festival, the Agricultural Festival, and the Spring Dragon Festival, Dragon Carrying Heads is a traditional Chinese folk festival. "Dragon" refers to the twenty-eight constellations in the east of the Canglong seven constellations of the stars, every mid-spring at the beginning of the month of Mao, dusk, "Longjiaoxing" (i.e., Angle of the constellation of a star and Angle of the constellation of the second star) appeared from the eastern horizon, so it is known as "dragon head-raising "The Dragon's head is lifted up. Legend has it that the dragon can move clouds and rain, eliminate disasters and bring down blessings, symbolizing auspiciousness. Since ancient times, people in the mid-spring "dragon head" this day to celebrate, in order to show respect for the dragon blessings, wind and rain, a good harvest.
Dragon Carrying Heads Festival formed in when
According to evidence, as early as the Tang Dynasty, the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar has been the nature of the festival. On this day, people were invited to the field to step on the green, so-called "welcome to the rich" by the way and then dig some wild vegetables, bring home to taste fresh, called "pick vegetables". To the Song Dynasty, February 2 gradually evolved into a formal festival, known as the Pick Vegetable Festival, Treading Green Festival. This is reflected in some of the poems and documents at that time and recorded, for example, the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Lei on the title of the "February 2 picking festival, heavy rain can not be out" poem, the Southern Song Dynasty, Chen Yuanliang compiled "time and age" cited in the "pot in the superfluous record" also cloud: "Shu custom, the old February 2 for the festival of trekking green."
A book entitled "Analyzing the Jin Zhi" written by Xiong Mengxiang at the end of the Yuan Dynasty describes the customs of the Beijing-Guangxi region, saying, "On February 2, it is said that the dragon carries the head of the dragon. At five o'clock, each family to lime in the well around the grits lead white road straight into the home room, men and women do not need to sweep the floor, for fear of scaring the eyes of the dragon." So far, this is the earliest record we can see "February 2, Dragon Head Raising" written material, according to this material, can be concluded that the Dragon Head Raising Festival was formed in the Yuan Dynasty.