The second day of February is the "Dragon Head Up" Festival in China traditional lunar calendar. It is said that dragons began to appear on this day and the weather began to get warmer. Although there is a certain status and cultural connotation in traditional festivals in China, there is no legal holiday, so whether you can travel far depends on your specific situation and itinerary. If you need to travel far, it is recommended to know the local traffic conditions and weather changes in advance, pay attention to safe travel, and also observe the epidemic prevention and control measures to ensure the health and safety of yourself and others.
The second day of February, formerly known as the birthday of the land, is also the Dragon Head Festival and the Zhonghe Festival. Due to the overlapping festivals, February 2 in some parts of the south has both the custom of raising the head of the dragon and the custom of offering sacrifices to the society. For example, in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions, on February 2nd (the fifth May after ancient beginning of spring), the country (the land god) was mainly sacrificed, and dragon festival in Duanyang was called "Longxiang".
The historical evolution of the dragon's rise;
Dragon is a magical creature. The ancients thought it lived in the sea. It is the master of weathering rain, and it originated from the worship of natural phenomena, which is related to the understanding of the movement of stars in ancient astronomy and farming culture. The purpose of ancient people's observation of celestial phenomena is to determine the time and thus provide services for agricultural production. The rise of the dragon is a reflection of the seasons in the ancient farming culture of China. Although it has a long history, "Dragon Rise" is widely circulated as a national festival and appears in the literature after the Yuan Dynasty.
"Dragon" is not a strange animal in legend, but a star that actually passes over people's heads every day. Through the observation of the stars such as "Dragon", the Chinese ancestors completed the positioning of time and space and embarked on an uninterrupted journey of civilization for thousands of years. In ancient times, the ancients in China looked up at the starry sky near the plane of the ecliptic, divided the astrology near the ecliptic into several areas, which were called Twenty-eight Hostels, and associated these Twenty-eight Hostels with the four elephants according to their directions and seasons.