Chun Long Festival

Festivals: Chunlong Festival (February 2 "-long rise")
Festival hours: the first two days of Lunar New Year in February Folk legends, during the first two days of Lunar New Year in February, the sky is in charge of the Dragon King Precipitable Cloud rise of the day.
From then on, rain will gradually increase. Therefore, this day is called "Chun Long Day", also known as the "leading festivals." Widespread in northern China, "February 2, the dragon head, large warehouses full, Kokura flow" of the Minyan.

New Year's pictures, "February 2-rise"

Whenever the arrival of Chunlong, in most parts of northern China, families or the early morning Dazhuodenglong river Tiaoshui to Jingbian, will return home lighting, burning incense,上供. Old, the people of this ceremony is called "Reply Long Tian." On this day, every household to eat noodles, which means "pick leader" to Yougao bombing, which means "eat gentian" to Popcorn, to pray for "the bean flower, dragon king ascended to heaven, rain-clouds cloth, Wugufengdeng . "
Chunlong section on the source of the spread of such a folk story. Tang, Queen Wu Zetian (684-705 reign) Dangshanghuangdi, infuriated the Tianting the Jade Emperor, the Jade Emperor Chuanyu Secretary palm rain Dragon King of the Four Seas, the world within three years are not allowed to rain. Tianhe Secretary of the Dragon King can not bear to sever human way out, they defy the will of the Jade Emperor, secretly drop a heavy rain. Jade Emperor furious, the pressure in the Dragon King suffer a big mountain, the mountain-built Cloud:

Dragon King rainfall committed the day,
When the crime of human ages;
To re-board the Lingxiao Court,
Unless the beans when flowering.

People with good intentions to save the Dragon King, everywhere looking for the flowering of the beans. By the second year of the first two days of February, people in Fanshai maize seed, thought: This corn long New Year's pictures, "February 2-rise" was like the beans, a fried Kai Lehua speculation, it is the flowering of the bean » So every household Popcorn, and in the yard located in Fenxiang for Kai Lehua on the "golden beans." A rise of the Dragon King, to save the people know it, so the Jade Emperor exclaimed: "The flowering of the beans, I quickly put out!" Dragon King back to the Jade Emperor to Tianting response to human-to-cloth rain. Since then, civil society formed a habit, every February the first two days of this day, people eat Popcorn.
In fact, in February after the Lunar New Year, "rain" Solar Terms arrival of winter weather in the end, the rainfall will gradually increase, which itself is in North China monsoon climate characteristics. However, this from another angle also reflects the hope that the people Fengtiaoyushun, Wugufengdeng of good wishes.