<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > The second dragon head festival in February is the day to welcome wealth, eat "4 kinds of rich fruits", and don't lose the old tradition</h1>
Tomorrow, February 2, is the Dragon Head Festival, people put the "February 2" dragon head up, as an important festival, the folk on this day there are many sayings and activities, there are different traditional customs in different places.
"Dragon Head" stems from the worship of natural celestial phenomena, and on the second day of February in the lunar calendar, people regard this day as a good day. Since ancient times, this is a very important day for the farming people, people on the day of "the dragon's head" to worship the dragon to celebrate, pray for the wind and rain to be smooth, exorcism of evil spirits, and the day of auspicious transfer.
Before getting up on the morning of February 2, the folk should first recite a sentence to ask for Jinaxiang: "On February 2, the dragon looks up, and the dragon does not look up and I look up." ”
February two dragons look up, since ancient times is the day of "greeting the rich", in the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty people have taken the first two days of February as a special day, saying that this is the day of "welcoming the rich", what to do, this day to eat "welcome the rich and noble fruit", is to eat some pastry food, cake harmonic sound "high", meaning step by step, to eat snacks, what a good excuse.
February 2 dragon head festival, is to welcome the rich day, eat "4 kinds of rich and noble fruits", the old tradition do not lose, meaning rich and auspicious, beautiful and satisfactory, in order to become more and more prosperous in the new year.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" > sun cake</h1>
Talking about february 2, an interesting food, always around a piece of sun cake, is common in Beijing. Sun cake is both an offering on the day of the festival and a seasonal food, and has the meaning of "high sun". Nowadays, Beijing Daoxiangcun and many other pastry shops are still selling, the production of sun cakes still follows the traditional taste of old Beijing, generally using glutinous rice and sugar, that is, glutinous rice for the skin, jujube mud for the filling, but its indispensable is that the outer skin is on the top with a red yeast watermark on the head of the three-legged chicken Xingjun (Golden Rooster), or on the top of the mold pressed out of the "Golden Bird Round Light" to represent the sun god. This seems to imply that there is some connection between February 2 and the sun.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" >2</h1>
Sugar cake, commonly known as "Lantern Lantern", is a kind of pastry that uses fried oil and is a must-eat for the second festival of February in the north. It is oval in shape, with white noodles and white sugar as the core, because the shape resembles the ancient flat round vegetable oil lamp, so it is named "lantern cake".
The sugar cake is golden in color, sweet and soft to eat, tender on the outside, sweet and delicious, with a long history, dating back to the end of the Yuan and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. Fried lantern is "fried dragon scales", eating lanterns is "eating dragon scales", dragon scales into the belly, natural health.
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Looking at the white as a cloud of dragon whiskers, as fine as a dragon's whiskers, the color is milky white, the filaments are thousands of strands, and the freshly made dragon whiskers are crisp, without importing, you can smell a faint coconut fragrance breaking out of the shell. Coupled with the fluffy and fluffy wool-like feeling, gently sent to the mouth instantly, crispy and sweet, crispy and delicious, melt in the mouth. The old man loves the dragon whisker crisp, because the taste is unique, the entrance is melted, and there is a pleasing color head.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="1" >4, pea yellow</h1>
On the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, one of the snacks in Beijing called pea yellow begins to be happily listed. Folk February 2 pay attention to a lot of eating, of which, eating pea yellow is essential, every spring, as a seasonal snack, choose the best white peas with water boiled rotten, plus the right amount of white sugar, a little agar to make the pea yellow solidify, and then add osmanthus and other stirring, exquisite, after cooking the peas, you can pass the basket in advance, so that the taste is more delicate, and you can cut it into pieces after it cools. The taste, however, is first-class pure, and it is really sweet, delicate, refreshing, and tireless.