Today is the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, and there is a folk proverb "Shave the dragon head on the second day of February, and have a spiritual head all year". Therefore, the barbershop is full of cute children. In the face of today's ritualistic "shaved dragon head", the reaction of the babies is also too real hahaha!
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Many people think that cutting your hair on the second day of the first month of February means that good luck is the beginning of the year. So, do you know why you cut your hair today? On this day, in addition to cutting hair, what kind of customs are there?
Lu Qinxue, vice president of the Hefei Folklore Society, introduced, "On the second of February, the dragon looks up", which is the romance and magic captured by the ancients looking up at the sky. "Dragon Head" refers to the horns of the Twenty-Eight Houses (symbolizing the "Dragon Horn") appearing from the eastern horizon, when the entire body of the "Dragon" is still hidden below the horizon, and only the Horns are first exposed, so it is called "Dragon Heads Up".
On the auspicious day when the dragon looks up, children "shave their heads" and grow up healthily; adults "shave their dragon heads", resign from the old and welcome the new, and have good luck. To this day, the folk taboo of "not shaving the head in the first month" has faded, but the custom of "shaving the dragon head on the second day of February" has remained.
However, you think of the day "February 2nd"
Cut your hair and you're done?
Except for cutting your hair
There are many more Chinese folk customs on this day
"Dragon Eater"
For the sake of auspiciousness
February 2 this day
Folk food is mostly named after the "dragon"
Dumplings called "dragon ears"
This day
Pay attention to eating "meat and vegetable dumplings"
That is, there is meat and vegetables in the filling
Take the harmonic sound of "meat dish" "rich"
It means that the money is rolling in
"Biting Dragon Scales"
Eat spring cakes on the second day of February
Also known as "biting dragon scales"
Spring cake round and thin shape
Resembles scales
Eating spring cakes means
"Good luck with biting dragon scales"
The "dragon" may not be real
But it has carried for thousands of years
Chinese spiritual traits
Inclusive and neutral
Enterprising spirit
Fearless and fierce heart
A way of doing things that can bend and stretch
It will be held in many places
Pray for rain and release the dragon
Hope for a good year
Reporter | Trail Hu Chenchen
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Part of the source of the graphic | Xinhua
Edit | Nie Lilin
Audit | Guo Yan