What do you mean, the dragon looks up?

Dragon Head Raising (the second day of the second lunar month), also known as Spring Farming Festival, Farming Festival and Spring Dragon Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. Every year on the second day of the second lunar month, it is said that dragons look up, which is a traditional festival in China. Celebrate the "Dragon Head Festival" to show respect for the dragon and pray for rain, so that God can bless the harvest. On February 2nd, the dragon looked up. In ancient astronomy, China used 28 nights to represent the positions of the sun, the moon and the stars in the sky, and to judge the seasons. After the vernal equinox, at dusk, "Dragon Horn Star" appeared from the eastern horizon, so it was called "Dragon Head Up".

On the second day of the second lunar month, spring returns to the earth, which is the season of planting crops, and the earth is eager for rain. In China culture, the dragon is an auspicious thing that dominates the wind and rain. As the saying goes, it doesn't rain until the dragon looks up, so the dragon looks up as a symbol of recovery and auspiciousness. In folk customs, people choose to shave their heads on this day in order to look forward to good luck.

As the saying goes, "the dragon doesn't look up, it doesn't rain." The dragon is auspicious and the master of weathering rain. On the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, people pray for dragons to raise their heads to make rain and moisten everything, which is called "shaving the faucet on February 2" in history. It is generally believed in China that shaving one's head on this day will bring good luck. Therefore, the folk proverb says, "Blowing the tap on February 2nd will refresh you all year round". On February 2, every barber shop was crowded with customers and business was booming.

February 2 is the day when the dragon was stung to heaven. People in China always regard dragons as their totems. This day "shaving the dragon's head" reflects people's good wish to pray for the dragon's blessing.

In addition to good luck, there are also taboo reasons. In Beijing, Hebei and other places, there is a custom of not shaving your hair in the first month, so the business of barber shops is extremely hot at the end of the twelfth month. Employees are busy from morning till night, and there are few guests in the first month. Some bosses simply give employees a holiday and close their doors. On the first day of the first month, especially on the second day of February, the guests were full again. However, when he came to Shanghai, he found that there was no big difference between the changes of passenger flow in the previous year or so.