What day is February 2 nd in the lunar calendar?

The second day of the second lunar month is the festival when dragons look up.

Dragon Head Rise (the second day of the second lunar month), also known as Spring Farming Festival, Farming Festival, Qinglong Festival and Spring Dragon Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China.

In the Yuan Dynasty, "the second day of February" was called the day when the dragon looked up. February of the lunar calendar has entered the mid-spring season, and "February 2" is between the "rain", "shock" and "vernal equinox" of the 24 solar terms. Since ancient times, people have celebrated dragons on the day of "Dragon's Head Raised" in mid-spring, in order to pray for dragons to eliminate disasters and bless them, with good weather and abundant crops.

The second day of the second lunar month is not only the "Dragon Head-raising Festival", but also the "Social Day Festival" for the birthday of the Earth God. February 2nd in the south (the fifth day after beginning of spring in ancient times) still follows the custom of offering sacrifices to the land gods. Such as Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions, there are both customs similar to the Dragon Head Festival and the new "February 2" custom, which mainly worships the land gods.

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"Dragon" refers to the astrology of the Eastern Black Dragon and Seven Nights. At the beginning of mid-spring, the "Dragon Horn Star" rises from the eastern horizon, so it is called "Dragon Head Up". The day when the dragon looked up was between the Uzuki's fright and the vernal equinox; Hair, hair also, everything comes from the ground, is an elephant with hair growth, representing the richness of life. Mao is one of the twelve branches of the Ganzhi calendar. The five elements belong to wood, and the hexagrams are "earthquakes". 1992, the divinatory symbols shook each other, and the earthquake turned into a dragon, indicating that the dragon had escaped from the latent state, surfaced and made a mark.

"Dragon Head Up" is a reflection of ancient farming culture in China on festivals, which indicates that the spirit of the sun will emerge from the ground, spring thunder will suddenly move, rain will increase, temperature will rise, everything will be full of vitality, and spring ploughing will begin. Since ancient times, people have also regarded the season when dragons look up as a day of blessing and good luck.

The rhetoric of "dragon heads up" comes from ancient astronomy. In ancient times, people chose 28 groups of stars near the equator of the ecliptic as coordinates as reference objects for observing astronomical phenomena. According to the orbit and position of the sun, moon and stars, the ancients divided the astrology near the ecliptic into 28 groups, commonly known as "twenty-eight hostages". "Accommodation" means living. Because they are arranged around the sun, the moon and the five stars, they are very similar to the places where the sun, the moon and the five stars live, so they are called "lodging".

The "Twenty-eight Hostels" are divided into four groups according to the four directions of east, west, north and south, resulting in "four elephants": black dragon in the east, white tiger in the west, suzaku in the south and Xuanwu in the north. The seven nights in the East are called "Jiao, Kang, Earth, Fang, Xin, Wei and Ji Pan", which form a complete dragon-shaped astrology. People call it the "Oriental Black Dragon", in which the horn lodge represents the dragon's horn, Kang lodge represents the dragon's throat, Di lodge represents the dragon's claw, Xin lodge represents the dragon's heart, and Wei lodge and Jisu lodge represent the dragon's heart.

In winter, the seven nights in Black Dragon are hidden under the northern horizon. From the fright to the vernal equinox, arcturus (arcturus 1 and arcturus 2) appeared on the eastern horizon. At this time, the black dragon was still below the horizon, and only arcturus appeared first, so it was called "the dragon looked up". The rise of the dragon refers to the looming change of the black dragon and seven stars in the sky, not the real change of the beast dragon.

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