Folklore, during two days of Lunar New Year in February, is in charge of heaven rise of the cloud to the days of the Dragon King; Since then, the rain will gradually increase it. Therefore, this day is called "Chun Day." Circulating widely in northern China, "February, Rend; large warehouse full, Ogura stream."'s Minyan.
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Custom
When Chun Festival coming in most parts of northern China every household in the lantern that morning carrying water to the well or river, then back home lighting, burning incense, the altar, Barber (with custom barber dead uncle first month). Old people call this ceremony is called "drawing Ueda." On this day, every household should also eat noodles, fried Gao, popcorn, than as a "pick leading", "eat gentian", "Golden Bean flowers, dragon ascending to heaven, Xing cloth rain clouds, bumper harvest," to show Kat .
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Related records
Seeing the Ming Dynasty have been vulgar. Shen Bang "Wan Department Miscellaneous notes," it reads: "February Wan who called for the dragon rise. Townspeople with gray cloth into the house from the kitchen door politely, convolution tank, called for the lead back to the dragon." Ming in Yi, Liu Dong, "Royal Plaza features a little," Volume II, Spring field reads: "Long on February second is the rise of the New Year festival of more than fried cakes, smoked bed kang, said smoked insects, that lead the dragon, insect not have." dragon in Chinese The mind has a very high status in ancient times that the dragon is a symbol of the emperor, is the auspicious thing, it is the master of wind Hua-yu. Therefore, the "February, Lung rise" proverb that spring comes, all things recovery. Zhelong began its activities, indicating a year of agricultural activities is about to begin.
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Legends
The story of a Nongyan "February, the rise of the dragon", the legend related in ancient times long drought, the Jade Emperor ordered the East China Sea dragons go sowing rain. Dragons fun, got into a river and never come out. A boy, to the cliff on the heights of the "Water Dragon", stirred Hun River water. Dragons head exposed from the river and the young man contest, dragons were defeated and had to sowing rain. In fact, the so-called "rise of the dragon" is after hibernation, a hundred worm is beginning to revive. So the saying goes, "February, Rend, scorpions, centipedes are outcrop." Second Story "February, Rend, the next spring was over and over streams. Shaking thunder, knows dragon heart in woe." Earthy rich in this nursery rhyme, there is a touching story about it. Long, long ago, the East China Sea Dragon Dragon King had three to lack of a Dragon. Dragon King would like to, if another had a daughter, sons and daughters are still alive and that the more wonderful! Queen Mother knew about the matter, give the mother ate a material dragon elixir, and soon, the dragon mother became pregnant. The second year in February, the dragon mother really had a glowing daughter. Grew up a little princess, tired of underwater life, eager to the world to find true happiness. Dragon Mother know that her daughter's heart, she advised the princess said: "Children, Dragon Palace in the carefree, what to what, why go to the world?" Dragon said: "The Dragon Dragon Sun who know eating, drinking, I have to go to the world, looking for really fun life. "dragon mother see her daughter has been determined. Dragon Palace quietly sent her, and gave her a kit with. Dragon reluctantly bid farewell to his mother, over ninety-nine River, across the ninety-nine Hill, came to a mountain, the princess looked all around, I saw far are dry mouth, crops are downcast head, the sun is burning to bake the earth, and not far away, a youth struggling to work in the fields, She went and asked: "so early in the day, you will gain you farming?" the farmer said with a wry smile: "What do? home on my old mother to feed it!" Dragon Lady is very sympathetic to him, remove a few grains from the tips red beans, Gravitropism in a spread, while, in the fields of thick fog on the rise , dry seedlings glow green. The farmer looked quickly bowed to her and said: "Xian Gu, here are a few hundred miles by the drought, which also requested the help of a female immortal save poor people." Dragon was very moved, she thought, he was really a good man , obsessed with other people. Really my bosom ah! So, she grabbed a handful of red beans tips thrown in heaven, suddenly lightning, a heavy rain Hearty underground down. Storm, Shan-ching, the crops green, his face showing a comfortable people smile. Grateful thanks to the girl, boy, princess launched into the face of Red Cloud, said: "Do not thank me, just a hundred years He Hao us." Lad heard sweetness of the girl brought home. Princess Palace leaving things to say is that after the Dragon King, Dragon King was very angry, not so long to see her mother. Dragon Mother missed her daughter every day, two days on the lunar calendar every year surfaced in February, looked up to her crying in a direction to leave. Her cries turned into thunder, and her tears were the rain. Three story "February" There is a saying Jiaochun Dragon Festival. Xu Shen's "Dictionary" reads: "Long, scales in the long, quiet can be specified, to small or huge, long or short, almost impossible Vernal Equinox, Autumnal Equinox and dives into the abyss." This is probably the "Chun section "customs of the earliest records. According to legend, when the Emperor Wu, Emperor then ordered the three years allowed rain to the earth. Tian Yulong, but could not bear the Secretary palm affected people starving, sneaking down by a heavy rain, the Jade Emperor, after that, the Secretary laid palm Yulong Tian Temple, the pressure in a mountain below. Yamashita also a piece of landmark legislation, wrote: Dragon King rules rainfall committed days, when future generations by human sin. To re-register inside the celestial Court, unless the beans blossom. Dragon King in order to save people everywhere to find flowering of beans. In the second two days in February this day, people are Fanshai golden corn seed, suddenly thought, this corn is like the beans, fried bloom, not that the beans flowers? So every household popcorn, and the case _set_ incense in the courtyard for the "flowering of beans", specifically to see the Dragon King and the Jade Emperor. Dragon King knew it was to save the people in it, cried aloud to the Emperor: "Golden Bean flowers, and let me out!" The Jade Emperor saw world gold curd open courtyard every household had to Chuanyu, Chao Dragon King returned to heaven, continues to human Hing cloth rain clouds. Since then, people formed a habit of February every day, people popcorn, there are Chaodou's. Adults and children also recited: "February, Long rise, large warehouse full, Ogura flow." In some places in the yard, stove ashes scattered into a big circle, put in the middle of the whole grains, called "fight store "or" fill positions. " Its intention is to wish good harvest year, warehouse store filled. Festivals, and local name of the food in general with "dragon" in the title. Eat eat dumplings called "Long Ear"; eat Chunbing called to eat, "Interfax"; eat eat noodles called "asparagus"; eat eat rice called "Dragon Seed"; eat eat ravioli called "longan." On this day, there are many other practices, get up before the first read, "February, the rise of the dragon, the dragon does not rise I rise." Wake up even after the photo beam lantern, while according to side read: "February according to the Housing Liang, scorpion centipede nowhere possession. "needle in some places women do not move, afraid of hurting the dragon's eyes; some places to stop washing clothes, afraid of hurting the dragon skin, and so on. From a scientific point of view, two days of Lunar New Year in February, or "Awakening of Insects," before and after the earth began to thaw, the weather gradually gets warmer, farmers leave the slack and began a labor Shimoji. So, in ancient times the "February" also called "on the 2nd." Therefore, popular in China Chun-long folk festival, in ancient times known as the "spring festival." It is said that if you do not wake up that day, then come roaring rumble of thunder will call it.
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Folklore
1, then "grandaunt" 2, the emperor farming February Another day farming activity is the emperor. February every year because the day before was in the Waking of Insects, "Awakening of Insects a plow soil to air through the vernal equinox." Spring from the north on to the busy time. In order to mobilize the people up into spring production, do not miss the farming season, February day rate of the emperor to a symbolic eviction Baiguan to his "one-third of an acre of land" land tillage. Ming and Qing emperors in early February each year, the land should go to Xiannongtan scarification, from the Qing Emperor Yongzheng beginning of February each year on this day to the Summer Palace, to "an acre of garden" (now the Old Summer Palace, Haidian west side) plow the fields. There have been a New Year, called "The Emperor farming map", the painting is a crowned, wearing robes of the emperor is hand plow to till the fields, behind followed by a minister, a hand and basket in one hand and the sows, cows wearing a robe is a magistrate of the seven items, the distance is the Queen of delivery and pick the basket ladies. Painting is also a limerick title: "February, Rend, the Son of Heaven Hill cattle land, is the old Palace of Goddess meal, when the minister of North Korea lost the species, weed in summer, spring rate of the world, peace bumper harvest in autumn." Painting picture also shows that people want to have a liberal emperor, to personally spring weed in summer, so that ordinary people food and clothing.
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Folk Food
Chunbing Chunbing folk food of Beijing, a very thin bread baked, also known as pizza. At the beginning of spring each year, Beijingers have to eat Chunbing, it is called "bite the spring." First two days of Lunar New Year in February, is the rise of the dragon said, the days of old saying ("February, the rise of the dragon"), this day will eat Chunbing Beijing, it is called "eat Interfax." Chunbing than eating pizza to a large duck, and has toughness (Beijing called to be "thin as a skeleton hammer"), because a lot of food to eat paper. Past, pay attention to the case when eating Chunbing shop sent for "Su disk" (also known as box dish). Box Shop is Sauce Shop, the store sent home to send food. Sub-grid boxes stacked smoked belly, pine nuts Tripe, furnace meat (a kind of hanging oven pork) and Qing Sauce, smoked pork, Jiang Zhouzi, tongue sauce, smoked chicken, duck, etc., need to change knives when eating cut filaments, comes with several home-style cooking (usually pork fried leek sprouts, pork fried spinach, vinegar, cooked bean sprouts, Fried noodles, eggs and other share, if just listed "pheasant neck leek" speculation lean silk, which together with share of eggs, is delicious and refreshing), rolled into Chunbing eat together. Onion and topped with a thin sauce of miso sesame oil (roasted duck with sweet soybean paste). Chunbing eat, the whole family sitting together, the baked good Chunbing on the steamer, the eat with Helena, as is eating a warming trial of strength. If this day to eat Chunbing February, Beijing also pay attention to marry the girl home. Lvda Gun A bean flour cakes, Beijing halal snacks. With steamed yellow rice (or rice) balled, sprinkle fried soybean flour, then add red bean filling, roll into strips, sprinkle with sesame osmanthus sugar consumption, since the Qing Dynasty is the current system operating food stalls selling " Lvda Gun "when, with the system with the spread bean flour, roll in place like Muddy loess country like donkeys, it was the humor of the name. Old Beijing's customs, people always liked to buy lunar month "Lvda Gun" taste, so they have run this many food vendors and hawkers carts to bridge the market food stalls and white name "rice cake Tiger" (Tiger accounting fu) do the most famous.
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Climate Solar Terms
In fact, in February after the Lunar New Year, "rain" coming solar terms, the phenomenon of the end of dry winter, rainfall will increase with it, it has always been the characteristics of monsoon climate in North China.
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Introduction
February Rend Folklore, during two days of Lunar New Year in February, is in charge of heaven rise of the cloud to the days of the Dragon King; Since then, the rain will gradually increase it. Therefore, this day is called "Chun Day." Circulating widely in northern China, "February, Rend; large warehouse full, Ogura stream."'s Minyan. First two days of Lunar New Year in February, the old capital, has spread a "seasonal." Not only the capital so that the whole of China and the world the Chinese are also still retains the "talk children." February started this dragon folklore with eyes open, two days of February the rise of the dragon, the dragon sweat three days in February. Nianxia around ever since, "the spring play sixty-nine" the breath, the old streets meet to're sure talking about the Square "February," this day, talking about the "February" mouth speaking children this day, Eli children and make children. Sa winter months, "committee Donger" is, indeed, to let Biequ hearts young and old in a small house Huang Huang, itch. Said, the sleeping dragon in the soil are restless, sleep, and that this person waiting for? Then do not talk in the house bored children free articles to breathe outside it! On the talk about children, children of Abraham, said of the old people listening to "Waking of Insects," the big eight-stool thunder shook the windows of a small eight-stool of paper rustling ring, began to schedule a tell with or "child bud," the Younger Findler younger dragons, the dragon is Zeyang opened his eyes, the dragon is Zeyang looked impressive, the dragon is Zeyang stand sweating! Change folder trousers pants, jacket change Jiaao, the main thing making life difficult for the Wives of home, like family seven or eight hole, just past Nianxia, has not got it together, and again in February, two past men working in time in the season, not talk, get up early take the night, lighting boil oil is not run as business! Children tell the truth, tell the truth Retroflex Suffixation that his aging mother of the children have been pulling February Intuit fine thing. Say "hit the beam February, Scorpion Tour earthworm (centipede) no less than the wall." Ancient old capital, has a courtyard of the house are the children waiting years for hundreds of years, the old house, in order to find warm places worm ant provides children, who are not afraid to stay in the house was good, the beam dropped something, even pulled gained fell a scorpion (Gecko), but also enough of your wits scared out. Beating, muttering, Qiao Xing a beam of living creatures, is to make your Nuenue place, do not oversleep a clever child fall! "February sweep bottom of the pot, the provincial wood fire is not Fermi province." Life of the capital of the old wood bed pan kang, a Donger down, heating cooking fires, leaves, firewood, and bituminous coal, will smudge pot coated with a thick, taking advantage of this moment in time seasonal, clean-up of a back nor is it a bad thing, as Fermi did not charge it reckoned to talking fluently, your home population, to sweep a thin bottom of the pot, but also how much to eat is also no less! "Kangxi February sweep, refreshing cool end of the year." "February" This is inside the mother of children, about children, is so much ceremony, children, old people like to be endless but young people also like to have fun Ledian Dian, or long years in Tim Zehui a dragon that many of the Dragon Sun too! In fact, the dragon is a spiritual tradition, the people will not find a thing that thing you said. Say, said there are awkward to eat out, have said children. The first month of the Lunar xxiii, eating the last meal of meat soup Nianxia meat dish, wondering February gnaw on before. The first month, no matter how much your home poultry meat, the provincial eating Ye Hao, fees matter whether the food to the children twenty-three this day, deft of children was "clean" clean, like a map for good luck? Or days unable to retain the heat up? Anyway, this thing can not tell. But there is one, you can get to know a few days to February to, eat anything that day, year after year ye too, do not think are obvious. "February, the rise of the dragon", both said, you have to add luster to this dragon child is not, why start with to eat, eat, and body bone Hard to take off. You'll see, his aging mother children who have to be versatile use both. Lantern Festival, the Dragon Eye; noodles, is the asparagus child; dalian fire, dragon tongue; dumplings, dragon ears; pizza, dragon skin; rice, is the Dragon; bread, is a dragon egg. Most people understand is, put a few of the chicken feet, stunned is Eleusine. Add to the fun of the dishes are: fried beans Ying Zuier mustard, mustard homonym is "borrowed money", soy mouth to sing (not the bean sprouts) on behalf of the "golden bean"; old children pickled eggs cut flow of oil children, called "extra cash to "; plate of tofu, take a name child called" pocket blessing "; specifically left the cabbage head, leaves the ripping to wash dishes to the table, holding up a rice to eat, called" Package as_set_s. " Eating "package wealth" do not say San myself, holding hard to say eating plan a head.
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Folklore
1, then "grandaunt" 2, the emperor farming February Another day farming activity is the emperor. February every year because the day before was in the Waking of Insects, "Awakening of Insects a plow soil to air through the vernal equinox." Spring from the north on to the busy time. In order to mobilize the people up into spring production, do not miss the farming season, February day rate of the emperor to a symbolic eviction Baiguan to his "one-third of an acre of land" land tillage. Ming and Qing emperors in early February each year, the land should go to Xiannongtan scarification, from the Qing Emperor Yongzheng beginning of February each year on this day to the Summer Palace, to "an acre of garden" (now the Old Summer Palace, Haidian west side) plow the fields. There have been a New Year, called "The Emperor farming map", the painting is a crowned, wearing robes of the emperor is hand plow to till the fields, behind followed by a minister, a hand and basket in one hand and the sows, cows wearing a robe is a magistrate of the seven items, the distance is the Queen of delivery and pick the basket ladies. Painting is also a limerick title: "February, Rend, the Son of Heaven Hill cattle land, is the old Palace of Goddess meal, when the minister of North Korea lost the species, weed in summer, spring rate of the world, peace bumper harvest in autumn." Painting picture also shows that people want to have a liberal emperor, to personally spring weed in summer, so that ordinary people food and clothing. 3, Folk Rend "February, Rend, does not favor the rise of the dragon." Uplifting the old saying of others _set_ the tone. Dragon is a fetish out of people think it is the master of wind Hua-yu, "dragon does not rise it does not rain," "Long rise" is synonymous with rain. Here, the average temperature in most areas, steady rise to above zero degrees Celsius, the weather gets warmer, due to the formation of cumulus convection gradually increased, precipitation improved significantly more than natural. "February" is an astronomy, climate, agriculture, health, etc., related to the day, pay attention to more special. Since the rise to the dragon, the dragon will try to lead them. Ever since the Ming Dynasty after the ashes have long cited the move, Shen Bang "Wan Department Miscellaneous Poems" wrote: "February Wan who called for the dragon rise. Townspeople with gray cloth into the kitchen from outside the euphemism, convolution tank , called for the lead back to the dragon. "Every February, all from outside the main entrance to each house, and then sprinkled with lime around the kitchen around the tank, the day must not sweep the floor, do needlework, said to be afraid of hurting Long. Spread another layer of lime powder recovery means to prevent breeding of insects in the house. To do this, use the fire all over the wall beam, horn Garak, "according to beam February, scorpion centipede nowhere possession." Some old lady and saying "knock kang Ballad" while holding a broom beat Kang: "Yeah knock knock, knock the white picket fence, gold and silver to the home stream, ah knock knock, knock kang edge, scorpions centipedes do not meet!" In rural areas, This morning, farmer stove in the yard to paint five large gray circle, the whole grains in the middle, known as "playing store", I wish the current weather and abundant harvests, warehouse store full circle. Or how to say "February, Long rise, large warehouse full, Ogura flow" yet. In the north, two days of February, is to open the spring thaw, the array Yanbei Fei, Li Niu everywhere, planting site preparation will be a good time out. According to the "ancient and modern Beijing" contains: Qing customization, Zhong Hai at each age, the emperor to go to Xiannongtan god of agriculture. Salute is completed, but also from the plow land to make way, even if the pro-farming the Jade Emperor, and then, sitting in view of the stage view of farming, "the final acres of common people." God of agriculture at this time the emperor, was intended to call people up and spring, and later deified by some people to become a better February rise of the dragon legends. Citizens have a "barber to the old," saying that February to the barber, said to be able to bring a year of good luck. That day, the barber's place will be too busy, no hair cut because the people more than a month. All of the barber, break for a whole month, arrived February this day, early to open the door, do not greet the guests, the guests flocked to the natural, "February, Rend, children adults to shave." February eat this all day and all the dragons, called the Dragon rice, noodles called asparagus, dumplings called Aralia, ravioli called longan, Chunbing called Dragonscale, steamed meat rolls called lazy dragon. Sauce will not eat. Han tradition is to eat on this day in February Zhu Tourou. Before the twelfth lunar month twenty-three people usually too small butcher sheep year, first day, breaking five, fifteen all over, basically ate meat, what is left of a pig. To February, put the "leading" as the offerings brought enjoy. February, in addition to the dragon's birthday is the birthday of Lord of land, each household must be old to Earth Temple worship. Light thanks to the land yet. Beijing also has a custom is ritual incense, February, men and women posted the amount of gold, rode donkeys have come to burn incense in the temple of Princess Zhuozhou, sent good wishes and hope to gain the blessing god. Named to the temple incense, but in reality outing travel. "Year of the Huaji Li spectrum," it reads: "February outing Festival Touring the beginning of the county people, scattered in the suburbs."