Dragon Heads-raising Day

Today is the Lunar New Year in February, the Chinese people commonly known as the day for the Dragon Heads-raising Day. And this name also has a beautiful legend.

  According to legend, Wu Zetian won the Tang Dynasty after the country, change the country for the week, claiming Zhou Wu emperor. Heaven Jade Emperor know that after the furious, life too white Venus encyclical Four King Dragon, three years shall not rain to the human race. This can suffer the people of the world, people complaining, can not help but burst into tears. Secretary of the river of the dragon can not bear the people suffering, drink plenty of river water, spray the world, save the people. Jade Emperor learned of the matter, the Yulong lay down the mortal world, pressure in the foot of the mountain, and set up a stone, wrote: "Yulong rain off the rules, when the world by the crime, in order to re-Deng Lingxiao Ge, Time."

 People to save Yulong, tried all kinds of ways. This year's Lunar New Year on February 2, people found that corn and soybeans are golden shiny, much like gold beans. People think about the beans, such as a speculation, is not the golden beans flowering? So, a mass of ten, ten mass 100, each household are speculation a lot of corn and soybeans, some for the courtyard, some end to Yulong side. The suppression of the dragon is the dragon of the dragon is the whiskers of the sea, this day, Taibai Venus found the world golden one, that gold beans blossom, they received a whisk. Yulong this vacated into the sky, back to heaven. At this point, it is spring rain like oil season, Yulong regardless of Jade ban, and "rushing" under the rain.

Since then, the folk will be formed in February two dragons fried corn, fried soybeans habits, every Lunar New Year in February, people have to stir the corn, fried soybeans.

In the Dragon Heads-rising Day, we have a lot of customs can be carried out. For example,the day about the diet also has a specific name, because people believe that this day the Dragon King will benefit the world. Eat the name "eat dragon scales", eat noodles, said "eat dragon whiskers", eat rice is "eat dragon child", eat ravioli "eat longan", eat dumplings called "eat dragon ear", eat noodles called food "Longxu", noodles, wonton a cook called "dragon get beads", eat pig head called "food faucet", eat green onions called "tear dragon skin." Everything is taken with the dragon symbol and meaning. These are all dedicated to the strong desire to bless the people.

 Another big custom for this festival is to shave. Lunar New Year on February 2 is the day, the people think that in this day shaving, will make people in the next year will have good luck. Children's haircut, called shaving "happy head", by the dragon's head of the Kyrgyzstan, to protect the healthy growth of children, grow up to succeed. Adults barber, then the meaning of the old welcome, hope to bring a good sign and good luck. So every day, every family barber shop customers are happy door, business is booming.

In fact, no matter what kind of people in the form of custom to pray, are placed on the foreign life of high expectations, and in the next days to work hard.