Today is the second dragon look up in February, also known as "Spring Ploughing Festival", "Agricultural Affairs Festival", "Spring Dragon Festival", is a traditional Chinese folk festival, the legend is the day when the dragon looks up, and the origin of "Dragon Look up" is a touching story!
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was an emperor who was very angry because he delayed the time of the sacrifice to the heavens, so he gave the Dragon King an order not to rain on the earth for three years.
Since then, there has been a continuous drought in the world, the crops in the fields are dying, and the water in the river is almost dry and can be bottomed out.
There was no harvest in the fields, and famine broke out in the village. Everyone had no food to eat, and the sick were sick, and all the people were helpless.
At this time, the Dragon King's youngest son, Qinglong, could no longer look at it, and he couldn't bear to watch the people of the world suffer and starve. So he took advantage of the Jade Emperor's visit to the banquet to secretly rain on the human world.
The next day, the Jade Emperor was furious when he learned of this.
So he ordered the Green Dragon to be crushed under a big mountain, and a stone stele was erected at the bottom of the mountain, which read: "The Green Dragon rains and violates the rules of heaven, and should be subjected to the sins of the world." If you want to re-ascend to the Lingxiao Hall, unless the golden bean is in bloom. ”
When the people saw the stone tablet and then saw the green dragon suffering, everyone's hearts were very anxious. But everyone racked their brains and couldn't think of a way to make the golden beans blossom.
In this way, on the second day of the second lunar month of the second lunar calendar, people take out a lot of soybeans and corn seeds from their homes to dry.
An old man suddenly found that these golden soybeans and corn were quite like golden beans.
So the old man immediately ran home and asked his wife to stir-fry in the pot to see how these things would change.
After frying for a while, the water in the soybeans and corn was not much, and they were all fried, so they all exploded. Only a "crackling" sound was heard coming out of the pot.
The old man looked, "Ah! Golden beans are blooming! Golden beans are blooming! ”
The news immediately spread throughout the village, and the old man told the people of the village about this method.
After passing through ten to ten hundred, everyone set up the pot stove one after another and fried soybeans and corn.
After the frying, every family set up a table in their yard and lit an incense burner. Everyone offered the fried soybeans and corn.
The Dragon King learned of this, so he invited the Jade Emperor to the South Heavenly Gate to watch.
When the Jade Emperor saw that the courtyards of every household in the world were filled with flowering "golden beans", he had no choice but to order the pardon of the Green Dragon and recall him to the Ling Xiao Hall. Let him be an assistant to the Dragon King to give the human world clouds and rain.
Immediately, a thunderbolt in the sky split the mountain in half, only to hear a loud "popping" sound, the green dragon broke through the mountain stone, raised its head and roared, and took off into the air!
Then, the green dragon rushed into the clouds and tossed a few times to stretch its body.
Suddenly the sky was thick with dark clouds and thunder rolled. The green dragon circled a few times over the heads of the common people, thanking the people for their grace of salvation. The people looked up at the green dragon, and a smile appeared on the corners of their mouths.
After a while, the bean-sized raindrops "crackled" from the sky, and the people were happy to blossom. They let the rain hit their faces, feeling the moisture of the rain.
In an instant, the earth recovered again, and a few days later, in the rice fields, the mountains returned to their former vibrant appearance. The harvest of the common people is good, and their lives are naturally good.
Since then, the saying "On the second of February, the dragon looks up" has been passed down. Every year on the first two days of February, everyone fried soybeans and fried corn to eat. This is the good wish of people to pray for smooth wind and rain and abundant grain.
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After this story, many dragon-headed sayings were also passed down in later generations:
As soon as you look up, a good harvest is in sight;
Two heads up, Fulu Shouki all have;
Three heads up, the troubled bad luck all slipped away;
Four heads up, successful career holding your hand;
Five heads up, step by step to reach the upstream;
Six heads up, happiness and health forever.