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On February 2nd, the origin, legend and custom of the dragon's rise 100 words.

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. "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 dragon looked up in early February, and the moon was built in February. "Mao" is one of the twelve earthly branches, the five elements belong to wood, and the divination is "earthquake"; 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. "The dragon looks up" means that the sun comes out of the ground, everything is full of vitality, and spring ploughing has begun.

Since ancient times, people have also regarded the season when dragons look up as a day of blessing and good luck. "The Rise of the Dragon" originates from the worship of natural phenomena, which is related to the ancient understanding of the operation of stars and farming culture. Although "the dragon looks up" has a long history, it was only in the literature after the Yuan Dynasty that the saying of linking the dragon looks up with holiday customs appeared.

On February 2nd, there were a lot of activities related to "the dragon looks up", but no matter which way, it was all around the beautiful dragon belief, and it was an activity that people pinned their hopes for survival. As far as the whole country is concerned, due to different regions, customs vary from place to place. 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. Due to the overlapping festivals, February 2nd in the south (the fifth day after beginning of spring in ancient times) is mainly dedicated to the land gods. For example, in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions, there are both the custom of holding the leader and the custom of offering sacrifices to the society, and most of them are on the Duanyang Festival.