On the second of February, the dragon looked up. When the first month is over, the year is over, and people are about to start farming.
Ancient Chinese astronomers divided the starry sky into twenty-eight regions, namely twenty-eight stars, and composed of seven stars each, including the Eastern Green Dragon, the Southern Suzaku, the Western White Tiger, and the Northern Xuanwu. The Oriental Green Dragon represents spring, and the Seven Houses of the Green Dragon include horns (dragon horns), kang (throat), xun (forefeet), fang (chest), heart (dragon heart), tail (dragon tail), and ji (wind brought by the dragon's tail). The ancients faced the south to watch the stars at night, and the green dragon was in the east during the spring equinox. Due to the influence of the Earth's rotation, the Green Dragon disappears below the northern horizon in winter.
February 2, Dragon Dance. Photo/@Photography Pan
On the second of February, the horns gradually appeared, and the other parts of the "Green Dragon" were still hidden below the horizon, so it was called "Dragon Head".
"The dragon woke up, and it was warm and spring was early. The dragon looked up, and the filling of the warehouse was windy and rainy. The dragon's tail swings, and the fields rise with clouds. Dragon scales flash, grain into the house. "The change in the position of the Green Dragon also represents the difference between the season and the harvest.
In fact, as an agrarian people, our customs can more or less see the relationship with the weather and seasons, in order to pray for smooth wind and rain, grain and abundance.
Dumplings, dragon ears. Meat and vegetable dumplings, meaning "rich".
A good harvest is ultimately associated with our mouth and stomach.
When the dragon looks up, we will usher in the sting, the spring equinox and other solar terms, when spring returns to the earth, and the rain increases. This is the season when everything "heads up" and recovers, and of course man is no exception. At the end of the first month, people are also busy, and a new year of labor begins, and the harvest of sowing is finally eaten.
Today's food is also very exquisite. Rice is "dragon child", noodles are called "dragon whiskers", eating dumplings is called "eating dragon ears", eating spring cake is called "biting dragon scales", spring cake is a kind of food in the north, thin and round dough cake rolled on spring vegetables, is also the food that greets spring and prays for a good harvest.
Wontons, today's "longan".
In fact, there is another kind of food that you would never have imagined! Today the pork head meat also has a unique name, "dragon head". There is a song in the northeast: "On the second of February, the dragon looks up, good omen, eat the pig's head, the big warehouse is full, and the small warehouse flows." It can be seen that people are looking forward to the blessings and harvests of the dragon.
None of this? It doesn't matter, brew a pot of "Longjing" or "Oolong Tea", or can we call our Hunan rice noodles "Dragon Tendons"? Right to beg for a good head!