Every year on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, people call it The Dragon Head, also known as the "Spring Ploughing Festival", "Agricultural Festival" and "Spring Dragon Festival", which is a traditional festival in urban and rural Areas of China.
This festival has spawned a variety of customs. People believe that shaving their heads on this day will make people have red luck and good luck, so there is a folk proverb that "shaving the dragon head on the second of February, there is a spiritual head every year".
In the southeastern region of Guizhou, one of the most important customs on February 2 is to boil red eggs, eggs are boiled and wrapped in red paint, and then put into egg sets carefully woven with wool, which has become the most beautiful decoration for girls and boys' favorite toys.
Grandma Yang is about 10 days in advance, carefully woven pattern egg set
Grandma Yang's stall on Lipingping Street
Li Ping has an old grandmother surnamed Yang, who is over sixty years old this year, and the eggs she sells on Li Ping Ping Street this day are the most eye-catching.
"Weave up to 5 egg sets a day, and weave about 50 of them." Grandma Yang told reporters that she had already prepared for this day.
Grandma Yang sells vegetable-type egg sets
There are two kinds of egg sets, one is woven into frogs, mice, birds and other cute shapes, and the other is a traditional mesh, woven by the grandmother and her daughter-in-law, the price may be 20 yuan, or 3 yuan, are loved by the residents.
Snow White egg set
Chicken-shaped egg set
Adults give eggs to children in order to wish them health and safety in the new year, thriving like the rising red sun, and children buy eggs and hang them on their chests, showing a bright smile. This day of Liping is full of festive joy.
Guizhou Daily Tianyan news reporter Lu Daji
Edited by Hu Lan
Editor Wang Luyao Shi Yuling