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February 2, traditional Han Chinese folk festival. Popular in all ethnic areas of the country. This section of the customary activities are more, and there are flower festival, festival, picking the Lai Festival, Spring Dragon Festival, Qinglong Festival, Dragon Head Day. Because of the time in the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, so called. At that time and after the folk to knife ruler, hundred grain, melon seeds, welcome the rich and noble fruits and so on to ask the legacy, and there are picking vegetables, trekking, welcome the rich and other activities. Yuan Fei Zhuo "age Hua Ji Li谱"：After the Ming, February 2 and many customs on the dragon head, such as ash lead dragon, support the dragon, smoked insects to avoid scorpions, shaving the head of the dragon, avoid needles piercing the eyes of the dragon and other customs, so called the dragon head day. The origin of February 2 Cultural origin Folk proverb says: "February 2, the dragon carries the head." Around the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar is one of the twenty-four solar terms of hibernation. It is said that the hibernating dragon, on this day, was awakened by the rumbling spring thunder, then raised its head. So the ancients called the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar for the Spring Dragon Festival, also known as the Dragon Head Festival or Green Dragon Festival. Therefore, on this day, people go to the river to worship the Dragon God. The Chinese national customs - Shouchun yearly record "cloud:" the second day of February, incense burning water, to sacrifice to the Dragon God." People **** know, the dragon is the Chinese nation since ancient times, belief in the totem. So we proudly proclaimed: the yellow children are the descendants of the dragon. For thousands of years, people regard the dragon as an auspicious object with mysterious color. "February 2" is the day of the dragon's head, naturally become an important folk festival, many customs are also related to the dragon. In fact, "February 2, the dragon raised its head" and ancient astronomy. Ancient China used twenty-eight lodges to indicate the position of the sun, moon and stars in the sky and to judge the seasons. Twenty-eight hosts in the corner, hyper, 氐, room, heart, tail, Kei seven hosts to form a complete dragon-shaped constellations, the corner of the hosts is similar to the dragon's horns. Every February after the spring breeze, dusk when the dragon horn star from the eastern horizon, so called "dragon head". Historical origin February 2 Spring Dragon Festival has a long history. Leaving many customs. Ming Shen Bang's "Wan Department Miscellany" in the cloud: "February lead dragon, smoked hundreds of insects. ...... Villagers from outside the door from the ash euphemistically cloth into the house kitchen, circling the water tank, called to draw the dragon back. Use the noodles to make pancakes. Smoke the beds and kangs to keep insects at bay." The Ming Palace History: "the second day of ...... each family with millet noodles date cake, fried in oil, or face and thin, spread as pancakes, called smoked insects." Qing Fucha Guo Chong in the "Yanjing Years and Years" also said: "February 2, ...... nowadays called the dragon head. It is the day of the food cake is called the dragon scale, food noodle is called the dragon beard face. Boudoir to stop the needle and thread, fear of injury to the eyes of the dragon." One of this custom has been inherited to the present day. 80's, in the north of Henan area still retains the custom of eating millet. On the morning of February 2, every family has to fry corn cake, which is called rice cake by the public, and there is also a song like this: "February 2, fry rice cake, fine fire, burn slowly, don't burn the old man's beard." At noon, all eat "old dragon cloth eggs". That is, corn molt commonly known as corn rice with noodles. In fact, people are concerned about the "dragon's head" in various forms to commemorate the fundamental reason is related to agricultural production. As the ballad said: "February 2, the dragon carries the head, large warehouse full, small warehouse flow." Because February is the season of sowing crops. In the era of underdeveloped science, the people through a variety of commemorative activities, sent a strong desire to pray for the dragon blessing, blessing the wind and rain, a good harvest. February 2 folklore after the Yuan Dynasty on the "February 2 dragon head" a variety of folklore activities will be recorded more and more. People also call this day Dragon Head Festival, Spring Dragon Festival or Green Dragon Festival. The end of the Qing Dynasty, "Yanjing times" said: "February 2 ...... now called the Dragon Heads Up. Is the day of food cake is called the dragon scale cake, food noodles is called the dragon beard noodles. Boudoir to stop the needle and thread, fear of injury to the eyes of the dragon also." At this time not only eat cakes and noodles, women can not operate needlework, for fear of hurting the eyes of the dragon. Liaozhong County Records recorded the Republic of China local February 2 folklore, said: "February 2, commonly known as the dragon carries the head. Wake up in the morning with a pole to knock the beam, called knocking the dragon's head, meaning that the dragon hibernation from the land, cover the period near the hibernation. Farmers salty to coarse rice flour for cakes and buns for breakfast. Women shaved their heads for children on this day, taking the meaning of the dragon's head." This is a folk custom in Liaoning area, early in the morning to use a long pole to knock the beams, to wake up the dragon. At the same time also make some pasta to eat. As a festival of ancient folklore, the February 2nd Dragon Head Raising Festival has now largely faded from the modern lives of the Chinese people. However, we should also recognize that some of the cultural connotations of "February 2nd Dragon Heads Up", such as the worship of dragons by ancient people, the materialistic interpretation of "Dragon Heads Up" in ancient astronomy, etc., are still of research value. The second day of the second month of the lunar calendar is one of the traditional festivals of Huai'an folklore, called "Dragon Head Raising", also known as "Dragon Head Festival". "On the second day of the second lunar month, the dragon raises its head, and the men in every family shave their heads. In the old days, Huai'an people had the saying that "if you have money or not, you should shave your head for the New Year". Before the Spring Festival shaving and haircut to February 2, has been more than a month, it is the need to shave and haircut time. February 2, the dragon raises its head, is an auspicious day, over time, the formation of the February 2 shaved head custom. "February 2 dragon raised its head, family children shaving hair" is also the reason for this, in order to take advantage of the good luck in the middle of shaving the head plus "dragon" word, called shaving the "dragon" head, in order to distinguish between other times of shaving the head, but also Some girls choose this day to get their ears pierced. In addition, parents choose this day to send their children to study. "February 2, the family pick up their daughters". In the old days, the bride does not return to the door in the first month, the daughter-in-law does not go to her mother's home, the first month is not empty. At the same time, there is "married daughters in the first month can not look at the lights of the mother's home, look at the lights of the mother's home death of the father-in-law" superstition, and therefore the first month of the daughter is not allowed to return to her mother's home. More than a month, the girl wants to mother, mother wants to daughter, so to February 2, not only has been out of the first month, but also an auspicious day, so each family to pick up their daughters back to their families. "February 2nd, shine the beams, scorpions, amusement clams nowhere to hide". On this day, candles left over from New Year's festivals are lit and shone on the beams and walls to drive out pests. In addition, on this day, children use chopsticks to knock on a dried dipper, saying, "February 2nd, knock on the dipper, nine out of ten rats will be blind." They use chopsticks to knock on the wine cup and say: "February 2nd, knock on the wine cup, ten nests of rats, nine nests of empty", so as to drive away rats and mice. Use white paper strips to write "February 2, all insects and ants straight into the ground" of the "cricket list", in which "all insects and ants straight into the ground" to pour the book, and then stick it on the table legs or bed feet to avoid insects and ants. The "Cricket List", in which "all insects and ants go straight to the ground" should be inverted in the book, then stick it on the table leg or bed foot to avoid insects and ants. "February 2, the dragon raised its head, the big hoard full, small hoard flow", with green ash painting grain hoard or granary, or in front of the door with green ash painted in circles of varying sizes, symbolizing the big circle to take the small circle, praying for a good harvest, which is another folk custom. February 2, some also have to eat food Eve potpourri and women avoid the custom of needle and thread. It is said that the dragon head when moving needle and thread, will hurt the eyes of the dragon. February 2, according to legend, is the land lord's birthday, called "land birth", in order to give the land lord "warm life", some places have organized the "land will" custom: families put together money for the land god Congratulations on the birthday of the land god, to the land temple incense burning rituals, drums and gongs, firecrackers, after the founding of the country this custom gradually faded. =========================================== March 3, the traditional festival of the Han Chinese and a number of ethnic minorities, when the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. Anciently known as Shangsi Festival. Legend has it that the third of March is the birth of the Yellow Emperor, China since ancient times, "February 2, the dragon carries the head; March 3, born Xuanyuan" said. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, on the Si Festival was changed to March 3, followed by future generations, and then became the Han Chinese waterfront banquets, countryside tour of the spring festival. Legends March 3 on the lunar calendar, or the legendary Queen Mother will be the day of the Peach Fair. In the late Qing Dynasty, there is a poem in seven lines in the "Miscellaneous Songs of Du Men" which describes the temple fair: "Spring is growing on the third day of the third lunar month, and the Peach Palace is watching the burning incense; the wind along the river is slightly rising, and ten feet of red dust is raised on the ground." Legend has it that the Queen Mother of the West was originally the protector of a primitive tribe in the west of China. She had two magic treasures: one was the elixir of immortality that could be eaten, and the other was the peach of immortality, the Peach, that could prolong life. The mythical Chang'e flew to the Moon Palace after eating the elixir of Xiwangmu, which her husband Hou Yi had gotten. Since then, in some novels, the Queen Mother of the West has been described as the god of longevity.　The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is also the birthday of the Taoist Zhen Wu Da Di. Zhenwu Da Di full name "North Zhentian Zhenwu Xuan Tian Da Di", also known as Xuan Tian God, Xuan Wu, Zhenwu Zhen Jun. Born in the ancient Regulus era, the third day of the third month of the Chinese calendar, is a Taoist god in charge of military and war. Taoist palaces and temples all over the world hold grand pujas on the day of March 3, and Taoist believers also go to the palaces and temples to burn incense and pray for blessings on this day, or chant and pray at home. "Zhenwu Mountain Taishang Zhenwu Stele Record" on the origin of Zhenwu Da Di and the main Zhenwu Dojo in China, as well as Zhenwu "save the military disaster" of the "benevolence of the heart" have made a concise and artistic interpretation of the The following is a brief and artistic explanation of the "benevolent heart" of Zhenwu. Explained the people in March 3 to commemorate the origin and significance of the real emperor.　In ancient times, the first six days in March for the "on the six", the Han Dynasty as a holiday. "is the month on the Si, the officials and the people are Jie (clean) in the East Stream on the water, said to wash and purify, to go to the past dirt (disease), for the big Jie" ("After the Han Book - rituals on the Chi"). Later, the content of banqueting guests and trekking on the water was added. At night, every family in every room of their homes firecrackers to blow up the ghosts, the legend says that this day the ghosts are everywhere. Festivals and Customs Han Chinese have the custom of eating hard-boiled eggs with ground (chestnut) vegetables. The folk have flow cup, flow egg, flow date, begging son and wear willow circle, visit spring, trekking, eat Qingjing rice and singing and other activities. Han Chinese March 3, in addition to sacrifices, the later stages of the development of the river play, men and women will meet, willow and flower viewing and other folk activities. Du Fu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "The weather is new on March 3, and there are many beautiful people by the water in Chang'an". Song Dynasty Ouyang Xiu also wrote in a word: "Qingming on the West Lake, full of prosperity. Who's home. Green willow Zhu wheel go tin car. Tourists will go at sunset, wake up drunken clamor." These all show that the custom of March 3, the Tang and Song dynasties are still prevalent. At the same time, this festival is also a day for men and women to go out for a walk, also known as China's Valentine's Day, Daughter's Day.　In Taiwan and Fujian, March 3 is the "March Festival", "picking rat koji (Qu) grass, combined with rice flour for kuey teow to worship their ancestors" (Qing Qianlong Emperor, "Taiwan Fu Zhi"), and some people will choose to sweep the graves on the third day of the first three months of the month, both trekking, to get rid of the ominous meanings.　Zhongxian County, Sichuan and other places have "March will", held in commemoration of the anti-enemy general Barmanzi grand event, is the day, the masses carry Barmanzi's idol parade around the city, followed by social fire team, play dragon lanterns, lion dance, family lanterns, firecrackers, bustling. The Zhuang more in March 3 to catch the song Wei, set up a song shed, held a song, young men and women sing, touch the egg, throw the embroidered ball, talk about love. Legend has it that the festival was formed to commemorate the Zhuang song fairy Liu Sanjie, so it is also known as the Song Fairy Festival. The Zhuang mostly come to sweep the graves on March 3, and usually steam the five-color glutinous rice on March 3. The Dong people hold activities such as snatching firecrackers, bullfighting, horsefighting, singing songs and stepping on the hall, which is also known as the "Firecracker Festival". The Buyi people kill pigs to sacrifice to the gods of the community and the mountain gods, eat yellow glutinous rice, and do not communicate with each other for three or four days in each village. Yao people March 3 for the "Ganba Festival", is a collective fishing and hunting festivals, and will catch wildlife fish distributed by household, *** enjoy the joy of harvest, and then gathered in the square, singing and dancing, celebrating the festival. The She ethnic group celebrates March 3 as the birthday of grain rice, and every family eats umi rice. Legend has it that Lei Wanxing, a hero of the She people in the Tang Dynasty, led an insurgent army to fight against the siege of the government troops, and the army's prestige was greatly boosted by the hunger of the Wu Nim fruit, and succeeded in breaking through the siege on the third day of March, winning successive battles. In order to commemorate this, the She people eat rice and sing songs on March 3 every year. Among the She people, March 3 is a major festival comparable to the Spring Festival. On this day, families slaughter livestock and worship their ancestors. Many families often choose this day to organize weddings. Umi rice is eaten during the festival. At nightfall, bonfires are held and songs are sung. She people are good at singing and often invite She singers from all over the province to perform on stage, which is a very enthusiastic scene. During the festival, the She people also hold dances, including torch dances, wooden beat dances, bamboo pole dances, dragon dances, lion dances, and fish lantern dances. At the same time, there are also She folk competitions, such as asking stools, playing stone plinths, abdominal top sticks, playing kongs, and driving wild boars. The "March 3" festival is a microcosm of the humanistic history of the She people, with distinctive ethnic characteristics and a strong local flavor, and has an irreplaceable and important value in the construction of new countryside and the strengthening of national unity. Since the She people live in the less developed areas along the southeast coast in a scattered and small gathering, with the process of modernization and the change of the living environment of the She people, the language, costumes, songs and dances of the She people are gradually being Sinicized, and the traditional festivals and activities of the March 3 tend to shrink, which are in urgent need of better protection. The Li people call the third day of the third month of March "Fu Nianfu", for the wish "Shanlan" (mountain dry valley) and hunting harvest festival, but also young men and women are free to interact with the day, people call it the day of love. About its origin, there is a beautiful legend. Tujia March 3, is the Tujia Valentine's Day. On the day of March 3, the Tujia people get together to matchmaking with mountain songs, and betrothal by foot-stepping.　Other ethnic groups, such as the Shui, Miao, Mulao and Maonan, have their own traditional March 3 customs.　"March 3, Treading on the Beach" is a folk custom in Shipu Township, Xiangshan. There are several stories about its origin. One of them is related to production and labor: around the third day of the third month of the local lunar calendar, the ground and water temperatures begin to rise, and the shallow sea snails scramble to climb up the beach to reproduce. Local people then go to the beach to pick up snails during this season, which gives rise to the labor scene of "March 3, Treading on the Beach".　Nowadays, although the resources of the beach are gradually depleted, the local old people still can't resist taking their younger generation to the beach on this day to relive the scene of snail picking in the past. The labor scene of "March 3, Treading on the Beach" has gradually formed a new folk cultural activity.　Nowadays, "March 3, Treading on the Beach" has been characterized by folklore activities as the main part of the event, accompanied by sports, fishery competitions, and songs, dances, and acrobatic performances invited from abroad. There are various kinds of cultural performances, including horse lanterns, dragon lantern dances, colorful pavilion parades, etc., as well as Yueju Opera performances based on folk stories such as "The Hot Snail Girl Recruiting Marriage" and entertainment activities such as "The Hot Snail Girl Throwing Colorful Balls" recruiting marriages among the spectators. These activities are characterized by folklore, mass, participation and entertainment. Other Related March 3 Valentine's Day Lunar March 3 Valentine's Day: March 3 Valentine's Day has a long history. As evidenced by a poem by Li Bai, "The sound of whistling is so loud that Qin E's dream is broken by the moon of the Qin Lou; the moon of the Qin Lou, the color of the willow every year, and Ba Ling's sad farewell. On the Leyou Plain, during the clear autumn festival, the old Xianyang Road was closed to the sound and dust of the Ba Mountains." The color of willow here refers to the Valentine's Day on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. Through this poem, we can see how romantic the Valentine's Day in China is: a couple of lovers strolling on Ba on a sunny day in spring, folding willows to give each other gifts, and whistling incessantly, what a realm! Not only that, but in China, a long, long time ago, it was customary for loved ones to part with each other and for friends to part with each other by folding willows, as evidenced by the poem: "The willow gives gifts to each other for no reason". From this we can see, love is willow, willow is love to become a stereotype. The common people will be many lovers of the floating waves called looking for flowers and willow, that is from this. Today, although we can no longer see the ancient love objects and love scenes, but there are countless love poems and love songs, enough for us to enjoy. In addition, among some ethnic minorities, the custom of the March 3rd Song Contest is still preserved. Yunnan's ethnic minorities, in the lunar calendar on the third of March this day, many groups of beautiful men and women sing to love, mutual gifts, the secret meeting deep in the forest, the scene and the European and American countries Valentine's Day only has a different flavor of the same wonderful. March Song Wei Festival March 3 of the lunar calendar, also known as the "March 3 Song Festival" or "March Song Wei", is the traditional song festival of the Zhuang people. The Zhuang people have several regular folk song gatherings every year, such as the first month of the 15th, March 3rd, April 8th, August 15th, etc., of which March 3rd is the most grand. On this day, families make five-color glutinous rice, dye colorful eggs and celebrate the festival. The song festival usually lasts two or three days each time, and is held in an open space not far from the village, where bamboo and cloth are used to build a singing hut to receive singers from other villages. Singing to unmarried young men and women as the main, but the old and children have to come to the spectators to help. Small song dike has one or two thousand people, the big song dike up to tens of thousands of people.　Next to the song dike, vendors gathered, active civil trade, the nearby masses to catch the song dike people to provide housing and food, no matter whether they know each other or not, are warmly received. A larger song dike, dozens of miles around the young men and women come to participate in the sea of people, singing one after another, very lively. Tianyang County's Qiaoye are traditionally larger song dike. People to the song dike on the race song, enjoy the song; male and female youth through the song, if the two sides of the love for each other, will give each other tokens, thought the love. In addition, there are interesting activities such as embroidery ball tossing and colorful egg touching.　Throwing embroidered balls is mainly for entertainment, but also as a token of love. When a girl has a crush on a young man, she throws the ball to him. Touching colored eggs is to make fun of each other and also has the meaning of betrothal. The Song Festival is an event of folk trade and the promotion of national culture, and in 1985, the People's Government of the region designated March 3 as the National Arts Festival of Guangxi. The Legend of "Fu Nian Fu" of Li Ethnic Group It is said that a long time ago, the Seven Fingers Ridge area encountered a rare drought, and the people were living as if it were a year. Early one morning, a young man named Yayin told everyone that he had dreamed of a lark, and that in order to get rid of this disaster, he had to climb to the top of Wuzhi Mountain and blow his nose to trap it. Yayin volunteered to climb to the top of Five Fingers Mountain, where he played his beloved nosejob. He blew for three days and three nights before a lark flew from the valley, and Yayin rushed to catch it. He chased it over a hillock, and at last Yayin took a good look at it and saw that the lark had turned into a very beautiful Li girl. The girl promised to go to the earth with Yayin to relieve the disaster. After the drought was lifted, he did not realize that he had angered the master of the mine. He sent his men to catch the girl, and when Yahin came, the two of them hid in a cave, and the master ordered his men to burn the cave with fire when suddenly dark clouds rolled, thunder, rock cracked and landslide, crushed the evil master and his men all to death. Yayin and Bailing girl turned into a pair of birds, flew up to the sky, the townspeople rushed to hear the news, seeing them off, dancing and singing excitedly, wishing them happiness and fulfillment. This day is the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, and since then this day has become a traditional festival of the Lai family.　To celebrate the third day of March, preparations are made half a month in advance. The men go hunting in the mountains and seal up their trophies; the women pound rice and make rice dumplings at home; and the young men and women prepare beautiful clothes and gifts for their love. The prey and rice dumplings are offered as sacrifices to the ancestors in the ceremonial hall, and if there is nothing to be gained from the hunt, chickens are killed instead, and the rituals are officiated by the clan elders.　On the day of the festival, the Li people gathered together to wish for a good harvest of "Shanlan" (mountain dry rice) and hunting. Old people with pickled mountain flavor and brewed glutinous rice wine, to the village's most prestigious old man's home, sitting around the ground, drinking on banana leaves and papaya leaves Yifeng Tanshan "March 3" traditional cattle boo Legend has it that the third day of the third lunar month is the birth of Yifeng County, Jiangxi Province, Tanshan Longgang Zou hair ancestor of the public, to be sung three days of opera, to show the ancestor.　Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the town of Tamshan around the traditional "March 3" material exchange conference (the local dialect called cattle boo, that is, the traditional cattle trade fair), from Shanghai, Hunan, Hubei, Nanchang, Shanggao province and more than two hundred merchants **** more than 10,000 people to participate in the traditional material event with a history of more than three hundred years. There are seven trading markets for commodities, local specialties, seeds, cattle, flowers, paintings, calligraphy, entertainment, etc. in every material meeting.　"March 3" material exchange conference originated in the early Qing Dynasty Tan Shan Town Longgang Village, has more than three hundred years of history, when Zou's villagers in order to facilitate the villagers in the eight villages in the first three days of March in the lunar calendar every year and held in the specialties, seeds, cattle, mainly material transactions. Over the centuries, this traditional event has been intermittent and by the original Longgang village development for the current Tanzan fair held, and the scale is getting bigger and bigger, to participate in the exchange of goods with the changing times and rich more.　March 3 Ghost Festival Jianghuai, Jiangnan area, the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year known as the Ghost Festival, the legend that this day ghosts. At night, every family in every room of the house firecrackers, to scare away the ghosts, ghosts.