Is there a custom of not moving the needle or the thread on the second day of the second lunar month?

Don't draw water from the well on February 2 (in some places, just wait for the sun to come out), for fear of "angry dragon king"; Don't move the needle for fear of stabbing "longan"; Women are not allowed to comb their hair in the house, let alone use long ropes, lest snakes (commonly known as "worms"), dragonflies and scorpions fall into the house. On February 2nd, most residents in China still have the custom of eating fish, which is called "smoking insects". During the Republic of China, this day was the end of the New Year Festival, and the "social fire" stopped. All walks of life began to work on this day and resumed normal production and work.

On the second day of the second lunar month, the dragon looks up and can get a haircut.

Then, spring blossoms and all kinds of bugs begin to come out.

There are many folk customs and ballads in the north;

1, sprinkle plant ash at the root of the wall, caress the root of the wall on February 2, and the scorpion (centipede) will not turn over.

2, before cooking, while tapping the bottom of the pot, while reading: tapping the bottom of the pot on February 2, eating rice all year round. I didn't have enough to eat before, and it was even more difficult to eat rice, so I hope to have food all year round.

Many of them are just made up.

There is a folk proverb in the south, which is called "On February 2nd, pick up your daughter in front of every house". The married daughter will go to her parents' house on this day. This is Mother's Day, not Daughter's Day. Let's call it mother-daughter day.

According to folklore, every second day of the second lunar month is the day when the Dragon King, who is in charge of heavenly sexuality, looks up. After that, the rain will gradually increase. Therefore, this day is called the Spring Festival. There is a saying in northern China: "On February 2, the dragon looked up; Big warehouse is full and small warehouses are flowing. "Folk proverbs.

Whenever the Spring Festival comes, in most parts of northern China, every family carries lanterns to fetch water from wells or rivers in the morning, and when they get home, they light a fire, burn incense and offer offerings. In ancient times, people called this ceremony "attracting dragons". On this day, every household will eat noodles, fried cakes and popcorn, and compare "picking the dragon's head", "eating gentian", "golden beans blossom, the dragon king ascends to heaven, the clouds and rain rise, and the grains are abundant" to show good luck.

The origin of the Spring Festival, there is such a fairy tale among the people in northern China. Wu Zetian became emperor, which annoyed the Jade Emperor and told the Four Seas Dragon King not to rain on earth for three years. Soon, the Dragon King, who was in charge of Tianhe, listened to the cries of the people, watched the people starve to death, and worried that human life would be cut off, so he went against the jade emperor's will and sent rain for the sky.

When the Jade Emperor learned that the Dragon King had been sent down to the mortal world, he was put under a big mountain to suffer, and a monument was erected on the mountain: The Dragon King's rain violated the laws of heaven and should be punished for future generations; If you want to go back to Lingxiao Pavilion, unless the golden beans bloom.

In order to save the Dragon King, people searched everywhere for golden beans in full bloom. On the second day of February of the following year, when people were drying corn seeds, they thought the corn looked like golden beans. It blooms when it's fried. Isn't it golden beans? Every household popped popcorn and put a case in the yard to burn incense for the "golden beans" that have already blossomed.

The Dragon King looked up and knew that people had saved him. He shouted to the jade emperor, "The golden beans are blooming, let me out quickly!" ; As soon as the Jade Emperor saw that the golden beans in the yard of every household in the world were in full bloom, he would send a message to the Dragon King, asking him to return to heaven and continue to give sex to the world.

Since then, people have formed a habit. On the second day of February, people eat popcorn.

In fact, after February of the lunar calendar, the "rain" solar term will come, the phenomenon of little rain in winter will end, and the rainfall will gradually increase, which is originally the characteristic of the monsoon climate in North China.

spring pancake

Spring pancake is a kind of Beijing folk food, a kind of thin baked flour cake, also called pancake. Every year in beginning of spring, Beijingers eat spring cakes, which is called "biting spring".

The second day of the second lunar month is the day when dragons look up ("On February 2nd, dragons look up"). There is an old saying in China. On this day, Beijingers also want to eat spring cakes, which is called "eating Longlin".

Spring cakes are bigger than roast duck pancakes, and they are tough (Beijingers call them "strong gluten") because they have to roll a lot of dishes before they can be eaten. In the past, when eating spring cakes, we paid attention to going to a box restaurant called "Pan Su" (also called box lunch). Box hotel is a sauce meat shop, and the store sends people to deliver food to your door.

There are smoked pot belly, pine nut pot belly, oven meat (a kind of roast pork), sauce meat, smoked elbow, sauce elbow, sauce mouth strip, smoked chicken, sauce duck and so on in the box. Be put in a picture frame. When eating, you should change the knife and cut it into filaments, such as several home-cooked dishes (generally fried pork with leeks, fried pork with spinach, vinegar with mung bean sprouts, fried noodles with vegetarian ingredients, and spread eggs). ) Here we go. Seasonings include shredded onion and sesame oil yellow sauce (roast duck with sweet noodle sauce).

When eating spring cakes, the family sits around and puts the baked spring cakes in a steamer, taking them with them while eating, in order to have a hot meal. If you eat spring cakes on February 2, Beijingers also pay attention to taking married girls home.

Rolling donkeys, Beijing snacks

A kind of bean flour cake, Beijing Muslim snack. Knead steamed yellow rice (or glutinous rice) into a ball, sprinkle with fried soybeans, add red bean stuffing, roll into strips, sprinkle with sesame seeds, osmanthus fragrans and sugar. Because the food stalls in the Qing Dynasty were made and sold now, the bean noodles were sprinkled as they were made, just like the donkeys in the country rolling on the spot, covered with loess, so they got the name of humor.

According to the custom of old Beijing, people always like to buy "snowballing usury" to taste in February of the lunar calendar, so there are many vendors and pushers who manage this kind of food, among which the white food stall in Tianqiao market and the "rice cake tiger" (tiger accounts for happiness) are the most famous.

The second day of the second lunar month, commonly known as "Qinglong Festival". The folk saying "On February 2nd, the dragon looks up". First, at this time, all kinds of insects recover and are suitable for breeding; The second is to say that the dragon rains and pray for a good year. Traditionally, on this day, "beans" are fried, "green ash is sprinkled" and "warehouses are enclosed". On this day, it is still the traditional Yishan ancient meeting in Zoucheng.

Boiled beans, namely soybeans, are also called "scorpion claws". Soybeans can be divided into salty and sweet. Salted beans: Soak soybeans in salt juice first, and then stir-fry them with slow fire. Generally, the beans are fried until they explode and the skin of the beans cracks. Sweet beans are made by soaking soybeans in sugar water, then frying them, or adding sugar directly when the beans are about to mature. In some places in Zoudongshan District, peanuts are used instead of boiled beans. There is a local custom of frying beans before the sun comes out. Legend has it that eating scorpion claws does not sting scorpions.

The warehouse enclosure should be held before dawn, and the peasant woman should brush the ladder, smash the ash shed, and scatter food in the courtyard, gate and yard with plant ash. When enclosing the warehouse, use green ash (grass ash) to form a circle, big sets and small sets, ranging from three to five, and the enclosure is not double-layered. This means the hope of food and abundant crops in Man Cang.

Don't draw water from the well on February 2 (in some places, just wait for the sun to come out), for fear of "angry dragon king"; Don't move the needle for fear of stabbing "longan"; Women are not allowed to comb their hair in the house, let alone use long ropes, lest snakes (commonly known as "worms"), dragonflies and scorpions fall into the house. On February 2nd, most residents in China still have the custom of eating fish, which is called "smoking insects". During the Republic of China, this day was the end of the New Year Festival, and the "social fire" stopped. All walks of life began to work on this day and resumed normal production and work.

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.

Qinglong festival

The second day of February, commonly known as Qinglong Festival.

The origin of the Qinglong Festival is related to the "fright" in the 24 solar terms. After the shock, the earth recovered and the yang rose. There is a saying in Shanxi folk proverb that "on February 2nd, the dragon looks up".

Jinnan area thinks that this day is the day of Qinglong activities, so it is forbidden to go to the river and the well to fetch water, so as not to bring back dragon eggs. When walking and working by the river and the well, pay great attention to silence and try not to make any noise, so as not to disturb Qinglong and ruin the good weather.

On this day in the north of Shanxi, "Qianlong" prevailed. Before the sun rises in the morning, every family carries a teapot and goes to the river or the well to fetch water. According to the calculation of several dragons controlling water this year, put a few copper coins or coins in the teapot. After pumping water, he spilled water all the way home as he walked, poured the rest of the water and money into the water tank, and Qianlong was taken home, meaning to make a fortune in one year. Don't talk when attracting Qianlong, so as not to scare Qianlong away.

In some places in northwest Shanxi, Qianlong chose a big tree or a big stone and sprinkled it with gray lines. Tie a copper coin with a red line. First, put the copper coin in the gray coil, pull it home by hand and cover it with a container.

In the southeast of Shanxi province, Yao Qianlong used kitchen ash and sprinkled a winding gray line from the door to the kitchen and around the water tank.

As the saying goes: "After a fright, all insects die." During the Dragon Festival, many activities to drive away drugs are very popular among the people. "Yangcheng County Records" records: "A hundred stings are shocked at the beginning, and the Tianshi curse hangs, preventing insects and poisons." When people get up in the morning, avoid saying the word "get up" for fear that all poisonous insects will react. Folklores in southern Shanxi like to cook Man Jing soup, which is spread all over the cracks in the walls, corners, the bottom of the kang mat and under the bed. It is called "no insects". Others gathered villagers, carried idols, went to the heads of families and sprinkled rice soup in the yard, which meant to dispel the plague. People's doors are surrounded by lime. Folk in southeastern Shanxi painted a medicine gourd, which contained poisonous insects such as snakes, scorpions, centipedes, dragonflies and spiders. , and posted on the wall, called "stop the insects". Others twist beans and wheat flour into lights and bury them in the soil, which is called "smoked dragonfly". In Jinzhong area, every folk family pats a dustpan, and the nursery rhyme says, "On February 2nd, clap a dustpan, fleas and ticks dare not go to the kang". Put a line around the toilet and the door with lime, which is called eliminating the plague. Luliang area is used to cleaning every house. The northern part of Shanxi pays attention to "paste the wolf's mouth", and paste the dough with sesame sugar or millet on the mouth of Erlang's barking dog.

Qinglong Festival is called "Flower Tide" in some places in southern Shanxi. People take wine and food to the suburbs, sit around in selected places, sing and dance, and enjoy drinking, which is also called "spring outing" and "outing". Southeast Shanxi is used to making pancakes with glutinous rice flour, expressing condolences to women. Children in Jinzhong area are used to flying kites. Some counties pay attention to this day to play ash pits and worship the land god. People in northern Shanxi like to eat noodles and vermicelli, which is called picking dragon flavor. There are also cakes to paste the wolf's mouth and pears to fight fire and get dirty. Luliang area likes to eat pancakes, which is called "uncovering dragon skin". Jinnan must eat twist and prickly heat that day, which is called "biting the keel". Northwest Shanxi pays attention to the Qinglong Festival, causing a lot of social fires and yangko, and the grand occasion resembles the Lantern Festival in other places.

On the Qinglong Festival, people in northern Shaanxi pay attention to eating jujube hill before the kitchen god. A few people in a family cut jujube hill into several pieces, one for each person, and three tips for parents to enjoy.

Ruicheng Hehe Qinglong Festival has an ancient meeting lasting for more than a thousand years, which is a strange custom. It is said that it began in the reign of Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, and it has been 1800 years. Also called "Three Societies Code", it commemorates the meritorious service of Emperor Huang Shui-zhi of Dongyue. On this day, villagers revel and display the most precious treasures in their homes. Folk also called "Ming Bao Hui", which means that taking treasure can ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters, and I hope that the weather will be good and the crops will be plentiful in the coming year. At that time, women dressed in colorful costumes will sing traditional folk songs, and men will play rough and powerful gods, local military commanders, civil servants, the Eight Immortals, secular gods and so on. , or riding a horse, riding a cow, lifting a pole; Or naked, waist wrapped in wild cloth; Or homespun underpants, with a straw cutter, ice skates, coarse purlin and stone mill on his back, which is very manly. The local nickname is "Hehe Erpai". The atmosphere of social fire is composed of gongs and drums, which are rendered. The attack method is simple and primitive, commonly known as "leaving gongs and drums". Traditional programs include playing with lions, running dry boats, walking on stilts and carrying people. The whole activity started outside the village and lasted for a long time until the end of the former site of Taishan Temple.

In the past, after the Qinglong Festival, the whole "New Year" ended.

On the second day of the second lunar month, it is commonly known as "the dragon looks up" and also called "Qinglong Festival" or "Spring Dragon Festival". In the past, there were many taboos on February 2. In some places, married women are forbidden to return to their parents' homes. There is a saying that "on February 2, they stepped on their parents' house, and if they don't die, their mother-in-law and mother-in-law will also die." "In some places, on the contrary, it is necessary to take my daughter back to her parents' home for a few days and talk about confidence. "On February 2 nd, the dragon looked up, and every family had a difficult experience." In some places, on this day, every household hangs the upper fan of the stone mill, which is called "the dragon looks up", and does not push the mill all day for fear of crushing the faucet. Some places get up early to steam cakes and wish Chunlong a sting. In some places, steamed bread is called "steamed dragon eggs", noodles are called "Longxu Noodles", and cakes are called "Longlin cakes". But some places don't eat noodles or small rice on this day, because noodles are "dragon whiskers" and millet is "dragon seeds", for fear that eating them will affect the health of dragons. In the past, people often cut their hair on the day when the dragon looked up, and children also went to school on this day, which was called "taking the lead". Some people hang a string of round colored cloth on children's hats, which is called "Little Dragon Tail". In some places, there are recreational activities, such as playing with dragon lanterns.

In the past, people usually regarded February 2 as the end of the New Year holiday series. From then on, they stopped all kinds of entertainment activities and began to return to normal work. Long-term workers who can stand it began to work, and ordinary farmers began to try farming. In some places, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to the land god on this day, which means that spring production is about to begin, and it also means asking the land god to pay more attention.

Speaking of February 2, it has something to do with the dragon looking up. According to records, on the second day of February, it is said that the dragon god will wake up from a deep sleep. People burn incense and offer sacrifices and pray for the dragon god to look up. Spring is coming, sex and rain are plentiful, and the country is prosperous and the people are safe. It is also the expectation of China people for a better life!

Festival activities in China are very rich, and the corresponding food is designed and arranged. On February 2nd, some places eat noodles, called Longxu Noodles, pancakes are called Longlin, and jiaozi is also called Longya ... They are all close to the dragon's body. Only Tianjin, this day to eat fried stuffy son, euphemistically called fried Longlin. There is a woman writer named Liu Fang in Taiwan Province Province who wrote The Art of Eating. There is a monograph on Tianjin cuisine, which says that "boiled prawns, stewed fish, fried grasshoppers, fried noodles, crispy rice, fried dumplings and steamed buns" are Tianjin cuisine. It looks very incomplete and inaccurate. After reading the Tianjin menu compiled by 1977, I found that there are as many cold, hot and soup dishes as117. Of course, it does not include crispy rice, fried food and so on. It's just a unique snack in Tianjin. However, in any case, what is certain is that fried stuffing is a unique food in Tianjin.

Stuffy children are "frozen children" made of starch. High-quality stuffing should be cooked with mung bean powder, transparent and bright, and not sticky. You don't need too much oil to fry the stuffing, otherwise it will be difficult to fry it in two sides. Mix the stuffing with sesame paste, vinegar, salt and appropriate amount of water, and add garlic paste. Eat fried stuffing with scones, pancakes are better; Stir-fry another plate of eggs, a plate of vegetables, mung beans, spinach or dried incense, all of which are delicious and refreshing meals.

The ancients believed that the dragon was the king of the aquarium, and it was ordered by the jade emperor to take care of the rainwater. It has nine shapes: its head is like a snake, its horns are like deer, its eyes are like rabbits, its ears are like cows, its neck is like a horse, its belly is like a stork, its scales are like carp, its claws are like eagles, and its palms are like tigers. It is powerful and small, can ascend and hide, and can sail freely on land, sea and air. The big ones smoke, the small ones are hidden, the ascending ones soar in the universe, and the hidden ones are hidden in the waves. Therefore, people reverently and solemnly worship the dragon and pray for its peace and prosperity. Over time, the dragon has become the ideal "the length of a hundred insects", symbolizing auspiciousness and prosperity.

Celebrating the dragon's head rising on the second day of February, generally three days, starting from the 30th day of the first month and ending on the second day of February, is opposite to Japan. In the meantime, I didn't eat vegetarian food for three days. Most villages invited troupes to sing operas, and some villages set off fireworks to send the Dragon King to heaven and pray for good weather. On the second day of February, adults and children have to shave their heads and get a haircut. This custom is called "scraping the tap, the Lord is rich." Eat more pasta. For example, "it's sweet to eat a sugar cake and uncover the dragon skin;" I ate Longshun noodles and rice noodles in Man Cang for a whole year. Avoid using knives, scissors and needles to avoid hurting the dragon's body, cutting Long Mai and stabbing longan. Avoid eating food with skin, and be afraid of giving birth to snakeskin children.

On the second day of February, the dragon looked up, with both a good wish to celebrate world peace and a good intention to pray for good weather and good harvests. As for its origin, what people left behind is a love story with a strong flavor of life.

Legend has it that the wife of the East China Sea Dragon King was pregnant for three years. On the second day of February, she gave birth to a daughter as beautiful as flowers and jade. This daughter is very clever and capable. She doesn't do anything, she understands it at a glance and learns it at once. As the days passed, Xiaolong became a big girl. This girl has changed eighteen times and become more and more beautiful, not to mention how beautiful the little dragon girl is.

One day, the little dragon girl got tired of playing in the Dragon Palace and slipped out quietly. As the saying goes, "No coincidence is a book", when the little dragon girl came to earth, it happened to catch up with the human drought, and even the trees and weeds on the mountain dried up. Seeing this scene, the little dragon girl thought, "How can ordinary people live?" Suddenly feel pity. So she walked up to a young farmer and asked, "Big Brother, can you still harvest when you farm?"

The farmer replied smoothly, "My family is very poor. When I was sick, my mother relied on me to support me.". How can I do it without farming? "

The little dragon girl felt sorry for him, so she took out a few red peas from her toolkit and scattered them in the ground. Immediately, a thick mass covered the field. After the dense fog, the dry seedlings are all green.

The farmer was surprised to see this and thought it must be a fairy. He hurried forward to salute and said, "Thank you, Sister-in-law, but our Fiona Fang has been dry for hundreds of miles. Can you save everyone? "

The little dragon girl was even more moved after hearing this, thinking, "I saved him, but he was preoccupied with others." He is really a kind man. If you marry him, he will love his family with kindness! " So I threw all the red peas out of my kit, and immediately there were thick clouds, lightning and thunder, and it rained heavily for an hour. After the rain, hundreds of miles of crops in Fiona Fang stood upright, and the mountains and plains were all green. The farmer was very grateful to the dragon girl, and the dragon girl liked the farmer very much, so they got married freely.

When the Dragon King learned about this, he thought that the Dragon Lady had violated the rules of the Dragon Palace, so he expelled the Dragon Lady from the Dragon Palace and never recognized her again. As the saying goes, "mother and daughter are deeply in love, and they will move the whole body with one hair." After the dragon girl was driven out of the Dragon Palace, the dragon mother often missed her day and night, especially on the day when the little dragon girl was born on February 2. So she surfaced on this day, looking up and crying. Her crying turned into thunder and her tears turned into heavy rain. At this time, just before and after the shock, the spring ploughing in the north was in urgent need of rain, which was in line with public opinion. Therefore, the custom of celebrating the rise of the dragon on February 2 has been passed down from generation to generation.

On the second day of the second lunar month, we pay tribute to Nu Wa's mother.

"On February 2nd, the dragon looked up." The second day of the second lunar month is one of the sixty-four solar terms. It is said that on this day, the dragon that passed through the winter eye was awakened by the rumbling spring thunder and stood up. Therefore, the ancients called the second day of the second lunar month the Spring Festival, also known as the Dragon Head Festival or the Qinglong Festival. Therefore, on this day, people go to the river to worship the dragon god. "Shouchunsui" says: "On the second day of February, incense is burned to worship the dragon god."

As we all know, the dragon is a totem that the Chinese nation has believed in since ancient times. Therefore, we proudly declare that the descendants of the Chinese people are descendants of the dragon. For thousands of years, people have regarded dragons as mysterious mascots. February 2nd is the day when dragons raise their heads, so it naturally becomes an important folk festival, and many customs are related to dragons. In fact, the saying "On February 2nd, the dragon looked up" is related to ancient astronomy. In ancient China, twenty-eight nights were used to indicate the positions of the sun, moon and stars in the sky and to judge the seasons. In the twenty-eight lodgings, the horn, sound, fork, room, heart, tail and dustpan form a complete dragon constellation, and the horn is like the horn of the dragon. After the spring breeze in February, the dragon horn star appeared from the eastern horizon at dusk, so it was called "the dragon looked up".

The Spring Festival on February 2nd has a long history. Leave many customs behind. In "Miscellaneous Notes of Ten Thousand Departments" written by Shen Bang in Ming Dynasty, it said: "February attracts dragons and smokes hundreds of insects. ..... The villagers use grey cloth to enter the kitchen from the outside and turn around the water tank, which is called "bringing the dragon back". Spread pancakes with noodles. Smoked bed kang to prevent insects. " "The History of the Forbidden City in Ming Dynasty" said: "The second day of the second day ... everyone uses millet flour jujube cakes, fried them, or spread them into pancakes with fine noodles, which is called smoked insects." Guo Chong of Fu Cha of A Qing Dynasty also said in The First Year of Yan: "On February 2nd, ... people today called on the dragon to look up. During the eclipse, the person who eats bread is called Long Lin, and the person who eats noodles is called Longxu Noodles. Don't sew in the boudoir, lest you hurt the dragon's eyes. " One of them is that this custom has been passed down to this day. In the mid-1980s, northern Henan still maintained the custom of eating millet. On the morning of February 2, every household will fry millet rice cakes, which the masses call rice cakes. Another ballad goes like this: "On February 2nd, fry rice cakes, slowly, and don't burn the old man's beard." Eat "old dragon cloth eggs" at noon. That is, corn molts, commonly known as corn and noodles.

In fact, people pay attention to the various forms of "Dragon Rise" commemoration, and the fundamental reason is related to agricultural production. As this folk song says: "On February 2nd, the dragon looked up, the big warehouse was full, and the small warehouse flowed." Because February is the season for planting crops. In the era of underdeveloped science, people have placed a strong desire to pray for the dragon's blessing, good weather and abundant crops through various commemorative activities. There is also a jingle among the people: "On February 2, the dragon looked up and the emperor plowed the fields and drove the cattle; Queen Gong Zheng came to deliver the meal, and the current minister threw away the seeds. Xia Geng leads the world in spring ploughing, and the grain harvest is peaceful and autumn. "The imperial court Lao Tzu led the Manchu minister to participate in spring ploughing production, which shows the importance of spring ploughing without delaying farming time.

On the second day of the second lunar month, it is commonly known as "the dragon looks up" and also called "Qinglong Festival" or "Spring Dragon Festival".

On February 2nd, there were many dragon-related activities all over Shandong. There has been a custom of "attracting dragons" since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Generally, plant ash winds into the kitchen from the gate and then goes around the water tank. It is also useful to scatter the bran from home into the well, and then scatter the ash from the well into the room. The purpose of recruiting dragons is said to be "lucky dragons", which can increase wealth. It is also said that all kinds of pests dare not come out after "attracting dragons" and can avoid pests. This activity has now been replaced by "dust removal", "hoarding" and "dust removal". place

Saying "dusting", "hoarding" and "dusting" is actually the same thing, that is, on the morning of February 2nd, the householder used plant ash to form several warehouses in the yard. When beating, put plant ash on the dustpan, tap the edge of the dustpan gently with a wooden stick, so that the ash slowly becomes a gray line about one and a half inches wide, and beat it while walking to form a hoard or warehouse, with a little grain in the middle. Some put the whole grains on the ground of the "hoard" and "warehouse", some dig a small pit inside the "hoard" and "warehouse" to put the whole grains in the pit, and some cover the pit with stones, bricks or tiles until the next day to see which seeds germinate first, which indicates what will be harvested this year. Some should be paved in the shape of a ladder, indicating full ears of grain and good harvest. If the weather is sunny and calm that day, it means that the year is good and the goods can be settled. If the ash pile is blown away by the wind, it will not be collected. As the saying goes, "on February 2, the dragon looked up and hoarded it." .

In the past, there were many taboos on February 2. In some places, married women are forbidden to return to their parents' homes. There is a saying that "on February 2, they stepped on their parents' house, and if they don't die, their mother-in-law and mother-in-law will also die." "In some places, on the contrary, it is necessary to take my daughter back to her parents' home for a few days and talk about confidence. "On February 2 nd, the dragon looked up, and every family had a difficult experience." In some places, on this day, every household hangs the upper fan of the stone mill, which is called "the dragon looks up", and does not push the mill all day for fear of crushing the faucet. Some places get up early to steam cakes and wish Chunlong a sting. In some places, steamed bread is called "steamed dragon eggs", noodles are called "Longxu Noodles", and cakes are called "Longlin cakes". But some places don't eat noodles or small rice on this day, because noodles are "dragon whiskers" and millet is "dragon seeds", for fear that eating them will affect the health of dragons. In the past, people often cut their hair on the day when the dragon looked up, and children also went to school on this day, which was called "taking the lead". Some people hang a string of round colored cloth on children's hats, which is called "Little Dragon Tail". In some places, there are recreational activities, such as playing with dragon lanterns.

"Fried Scorpion Bean" is very popular everywhere. Scorpion beans are generally fried with soybeans, and some scorpions are also glued with sugar noodles or soaked in salt water before frying or frying with peanuts. There are many patterns. It is said that eating scorpion beans can ward off evil spirits and repel insects, so some people call it "eating insects." Others say that whoever eats seven scorpion beans can live a long life, so it is common to eat beans easily.

In the past, people usually regarded February 2 as the end of the New Year holiday series. From then on, they stopped all kinds of entertainment activities and began to return to normal work. Long-term workers who can stand it began to work, and ordinary farmers began to try farming. In some places, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to the god of the land on this day. It is said that spring ploughing production is about to begin, and I hope the landlord will take care of it. Therefore, there is a folk saying that "landlords have the second day of February".