Every year on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar is the Dragon Head Festival, also known as Dragon Head Raising or Spring Dragon Festival, is one of China's traditional festivals, the Dragon Dance has a very good moral.
This is the time between the rain, hibernation and the spring equinox, when spring returns to the earth, everything recovers, animals hibernating in caves in winter begin to awaken, and the legendary dragon also wakes up from its slumber. The folk proverb February 2, the dragon raised its head; large warehouse full, small warehouse flow, sent people praying for the dragon blessing, blessing the wind and rain, the strong desire for a good harvest.
Fu Xi, one of the three ancient emperors, used to plow the farmland on the second day of February every year. The purpose is to give officials and the people to play an exemplary leading role, exhorting everyone to be diligent. Later monarchs followed suit, and it became another festival.
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During the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen listened to the advice of the great physician Jia Yi, and moved the spring plowing ceremony to the first month of the year. From then on, for more than 2,000 years, the spring plowing festival and February 2 were divided into two festivals. In ancient times, the royal family would hold a very grand spring plowing ceremony in the first month of every year. On that day, they would personally support the plow and plough to encourage farming. And in the folk February 2 festival rituals, still be retained.
The festival of February 2, Dragon Head Raising, first appeared in the northwest, among the survivors of the Zhou Dynasty. Slavery was prevalent during the Western Zhou period, and the Eastern Zhou state fell apart, causing great chaos. In the ancient times when science and technology were not developed and human life was as cheap as grass, the people, whenever they could not survive, would put their hope of survival on the inhuman gods, thus forming a kind of worship of the dragon.