What is the Dragon and Phoenix Festival?

1. The 25th day of the first lunar month is the Dragon and Phoenix Festival, which is another traditional festival in China after the Lantern Festival in the first lunar month. It is said that it has a history of thousands of years, and the countryside is still the old rule. Although there are many opinions about the origin of the "Dragon and Phoenix Festival", China people always think that it means "the dragon and the phoenix are auspicious", hoping that the new year will start with good weather and all the best in the year.

2. On the second day of February, "the dragon looks up", also known as "Dragon and Phoenix Festival". It means that when spring comes back, everything is revived and ready for farming. Every family has the custom of eating pig's head meat and other delicacies to improve their food.

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Customs of Dragon and Phoenix Festival in various places

1, Penglai: Longfengtian

There are two obvious signs of Dragon and Phoenix Day in Penglai area:

First, children "wear dragon tails", that is, every household should cut garlic stalks or fine sorghum stalks into a length of about one centimeter, and match them with colored cloth cut into copper coins, wear them in strings and hang them on children's hats, hoping that children will grow up happily and healthily, and when they grow up, they will become "dragons and phoenixes". This custom was abandoned during the Cultural Revolution and gradually began to recover after the reform and opening up. Although it is not very common, it is by no means rare in rural areas, especially in families with elderly people alive. Many grandparents leave a "dragon tail" for their grandchildren.

Second, at noon, every household "mixes vegetables", that is, cold dishes are mixed with Chinese cabbage, vermicelli, dried shrimps or dried shrimps, coriander, shredded carrots, garlic paste, vinegar and sesame oil. White is white, green is green, and red is red, which can be described as colorful and appetizing. The harmony of "harmony dishes" is pronounced with the four tones of "Hu" in Penglai dialect. There is a folk song in the countryside called "Dragon and Phoenix Day, every household is good at mixing dishes", which means "family harmony, harmony and prosperity, and life is thriving".

2. Liaoning: Zhuanghe

I learned from some old people in Zhuanghe that the custom of "phoenix day, phoenix tail in Dai Long" has been circulating in Zhuanghe for thousands of years. At first, only boys wore dragon tails. With the development of the times, girls nowadays wear phoenix tails.

Before the Dragon and Phoenix Festival, the old people at home used to make their own dragon and phoenix tails. In recent years, there are various vendors selling dragon and phoenix tails on the street, all of which are very beautiful. The most primitive dragon and phoenix tails are cut into centimeters with garlic stalks or fine sorghum stalks, cut into copper coins with various colors of cloth, and hung on children's hats in a string, in order to expect children to grow up happily and healthily and become "dragons and phoenixes" when they grow up.

There is a difference between the dragon and phoenix tails of boys and girls, mainly in the shape of colored cloth. The "dragon tail" colored cloth for boys is round, while the "phoenix tail" colored cloth for girls is square. Old people usually sew dragons and phoenixes on the shoulders of children's clothes. Children should open the Dai Long phoenix tail when they get up in the morning and take it off when they sleep at night.

In 2009, the "Dragon and Phoenix Festival" folk custom was listed as the third batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage in Dalian.

3. Liaoning: Pulandian

The folk custom of "Dragon and Phoenix Festival" in Pulandian is very popular, and the date is on the 25th day of the first lunar month, with a history of more than one thousand years. "Dragon and Phoenix Festival" is a comprehensive folk custom integrating handicraft skills, traditional folk beliefs and food culture. The ceremony includes: making dragon and phoenix tails, hanging dragon and phoenix tails to repel insects, and children wearing dragon and phoenix tails and eating live vegetables. It has extensive mass and traditional folk inheritance in Pulandian area.

Reference materials? Baidu encyclopedia? Longfengri