Longtaitou custom activities
1, shaving tap
As the old saying goes, "Shaving the dragon's head on February 2nd is a good spirit all year round", because it will make clouds and rain on the day when the dragon looks up, nourishing everything. Shaving children's heads on this day will bring good luck, good luck. Especially for boys, there is a saying called scraping the faucet.
2. Sacrifice to the Dragon God
This is very popular in many areas in the north. People will carry lanterns to draw water from wells in the morning, and then go home to light lamps, burn incense and offer sacrifices. This process is called "recruiting dragons" and its purpose is to pray for a bumper harvest.
3. Najib
This is also a folk activity. People organize dragon dances, wear dragon tails and write pens, hoping for a bumper harvest in the new year under the protection of dragons.
Step 4 eat dragon food
On February 2nd, most of the folk foods on this day were named after dragons, such as eating jiaozi as "eating dragon ears", eating wonton as "eating longan", eating rice as "eating dragon seeds", eating noodles as "helping dragon whiskers" and so on. In addition, in Jiaodong, there is a custom of eating chess pieces, because this diamond-shaped chess piece symbolizes Long Lin.
What health food does the dragon eat?
1, spring pancake
Eating spring cakes is called "eating Longlin". A spring pancake bigger than the palm of your hand is like a piece of Long Lin. Spring cakes are hard and contain many dishes. Such as sauce meat, elbow, smoked chicken, sauce duck, etc. Cut them into filaments with a knife and stir-fry them with some home-cooked dishes, such as fried shredded pork with leek, fried shredded pork with spinach, mung bean sprout vinegar, vegetarian fried vermicelli and scrambled eggs. , and rolled into spring cakes, dipped in shredded onion and sesame oil noodle sauce, really delicious and refreshing. When eating spring cakes, the family sits around, puts the baked spring cakes into the steamer and takes them while eating. Hot and happy.
2. Pig's head meat
There is also a saying that pig's head meat is eaten on February 2. Since ancient times, pigs, cows and sheep have been used to worship the gods, and later it was simplified to the head of the three animals, and the pig head is one of them. According to a story recorded in Qiu Chi Notes in Song Dynasty, Wang Zhongling was very hungry after pacifying Bashu, so he broke into a temple in a small village, but he met a drunken monk. Wang Zhongling was furious and wanted to cut it, but he didn't know that the monk was afraid. Wang Zhongling was very surprised and asked him for food. Soon the monk presented a plate of "steamed pig's head" and wrote a poem for it: "The banana leaves are wrapped when steaming, and the apricot paddles are watered when ripe. Red, fresh and elegant, called Jin panting, ripe and soft, really like jade. "If there is no hairy root to compare, the felt root will eat the rattan by itself." Wang Zhongling ate the steamed pig's head and was very happy to hear the humorous and unique "pig's head poem", so he named the monk "Master of Purple Clothes". It seems that the pig's head is really delicious and an auspicious symbol of turning the corner. Now there is a famous dish called "Roasted Pork Noodles", which can be served after twelve processes, such as selecting ingredients, cleaning, spraying, soaking, making sauce and cooking for more than ten hours. There are three kinds of "roast pig face", one is to eat it correctly; The second is to dip in the sauce; The third is to roll pancakes to eat. Every way of eating has a different taste. "Roasted pig's face" is fat but not greasy, the meat and bones are separated, and it tastes delicious, which brings beauty and brain-strengthening effects to modern people. "February 2nd" is eating a modern "roast pig's face" and recalling the ancient dining history, which is really a perfect experience of blending contemporary and history.
3. Mustard rice
Eating mustard rice on the second day of the second lunar month is a popular custom in Wenzhou. It is said that eating mustard rice will not cause scabies. In the old society, ordinary people lived in poverty and had a weak sense of health. In addition, there are many patients with skin diseases (such as scabies), who are easily infected. Mustard contains a lot of chlorophyll and vitamin C. Regular consumption of vegetables rich in chlorophyll and vitamin C can improve autoimmune ability and enhance resistance, which is good for human skin. So there is a saying that eating mustard rice will not cause scabies.
It is said that this custom has an interesting legend. One day, Emperor Qianlong visited a farmer's home in southern Zhejiang incognito and found a young man, Zhang Man, who had read a lot of poetry books. Because of his poor family, he could not go to Beijing to catch the exam, so he had to study hard at home. Zhang was hospitable and invited Emperor Qianlong to have a light meal. Just as he was preparing to cook, Zhang found that there was not enough rice in the rice jar and there was nothing to eat. Zhang had a brainwave, and the plan came to mind. Tell his wife to prepare the fire first, go out from the back door and peel a handful of green and tender mustard in the garden, add some seasoning and cook a pot of white mustard rice. Emperor Qianlong was used to eating delicacies. By noon, he was already hungry. When he smelled the delicious mustard rice, his appetite increased greatly, and he ate it with relish and was full of praise. He even asked how to cook this green rice with white inside. Zhang's wife replied, "this is called mustard rice, and it won't get scabies after eating it."
On this day, it happens to be the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, and the custom of eating mustard rice on the second day of February has been handed down since then.
Taboo of raising the dragon head on February 2nd.
1. If you marry your daughter, don't spend February 2 at your mother's house.
The reason why the Dragon can't go back to her parents' house on February 2nd is mainly because the married kannika nimtragol can't stay at her parents' house on February 2nd, which is a common saying circulated by her husband's family to let kannika nimtragol go back to her husband's house as soon as possible. Later, if kannika nimtragol has been living in her parents' home, her husband's family will take kannika nimtragol home in early February. According to the custom of the old society, the newly-married kannika nimtragol had to wait on her in-laws and husband at her husband's house the year before last. After the 16th day of the first month, she can temporarily stay at her parents' house as a rest day, but only until the end of the month, and she will have to go home after the first month. Because it will be folk spring ploughing after February 2, we have to work in the fields.
2. No needle and thread, no scissors
In ancient China, the dragon was regarded as a sacred symbol by the ancients. "Dragon title" is therefore taboo, so as not to hurt the black dragon and affect the luck of the whole year. Women are forbidden to use needles and scissors on this day, because the black dragon will look up at the world on this day, and using things with needles and sharp edges will stab longan.
3. Avoid saying "jealousy"
In the dialects of the central plains provinces in China, because "jealousy" is regarded as the meaning of "jealousy", February 2 is called "jealousy" because the festival itself is festive and people are afraid that narrow-minded people will affect Geely.
4. Avoid polishing
Don't push the mill on this day, lest you press the faucet. Hebei Xinhe and Shandong tengxian both avoid grinding flour on the same day for fear of crushing faucets. On the afternoon of the first day of February, Shandong Dongming will clean the mill. Install floor fans and do not use them. Because the local people think that the stone mill is a faucet, it is necessary to lift the faucet on the Dragon Head Festival. Up to now, although the stone mill is not used for grinding, it has been used until today. All the flour workshops should be shut down for fear of "grinding the faucet".
5, according to the beam
Before getting up, the woman said, "On February 2nd, the dragon looks up, and if the dragon doesn't look up, I will look up.". After getting up, I will light the beams with lanterns and read "February 2nd, light the beams, scorpions and centipedes have nowhere to hide".
6, avoid laundry
In some places, women stop washing clothes for fear of hurting the skin of dragons.