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What day is the second day of the second lunar month?
The second day of the second lunar month is the Dragon Head Festival, which is a traditional folk festival in China.

According to legend, the "Dragon Head Festival" originated in the Fuxi era, and Fuxi "emphasized agriculture, mulberry and farming". On the second day of February every year, "the imperial mother delivers meals and the royal family cultivates the fields". Later Huangdi, Tang, Yao, Yu, Shun, Xia and Yu all followed Fuxi's example. When I arrive in Zhou Wuwang, every year on the second day of February, a grand ceremony will be held to call on all civil and military officials to work together.

On February 2 nd, there was a saying that "attracting dragons to smoke insects" in order to drive away drugs and avoid epidemics. On this day, most folk foods are named dragons for good luck. For example, eating jiaozi is called "Dragon Ear", eating rice is called "Dragon Son", eating wonton is called "Dragon Tooth", and steamed cake is also called "Longlin Cake". Every household will also eat spring cakes, fried oil cakes, pig's head meat and popcorn to "pick the dragon's head" and "eat gentian" to celebrate the flowering of golden beans, the ascension of the dragon king to heaven, sex and rain, the bumper harvest of grains, and the prosperity of the country and the people.