The Longtaitou Festival (traditional Chinese: 龍抬頭; simplified Chinese: 龙抬头; pinyin: Lóng Táitóu), conflated with the Zhonghe Festival beginning one day earlier (traditional Chinese: 中和節; simplified Chinese: 中和节), is a traditional Chinese fe…
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The Longtaitou Festival (traditional Chinese: 龍抬頭; simplified Chinese: 龙抬头; pinyin: Lóng Táitóu), conflated with the Zhonghe Festival beginning one day earlier (traditional Chinese: 中和節; simplified Chinese: 中和节), is a traditional Chinese…
01 · What it is
Living Tradition
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02 · Where & name
People's Republic of China
Written in its own script on record as 龍抬頭.
03 · How it is doing
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The Longtaitou Festival (traditional Chinese: 龍抬頭; simplified Chinese: 龙抬头; pinyin: Lóng Táitóu), conflated with the Zhonghe Festival beginning one day earlier (traditional Chinese: 中和節; simplified Chinese: 中和节), is a traditional Chinese… In local script on record, it is written 龍抬頭.
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The Longtaitou Festival (traditional Chinese: 龍抬頭; simplified Chinese: 龙抬头; pinyin: Lóng Táitóu), conflated with the Zhonghe Festival beginning one day earlier (traditional Chinese: 中和節; simplified Chinese: 中和节), is a traditional Chinese festival held on the second day of the second month of the Chinese calendar. Its name means "Dragon raising its head" because the dragon was regarded as the deity in charge of rain, an important factor in ancient agriculture. The festival is sometimes simply called "Second-month Second" (二月二) for short.
The festival was established in the Yuan dynasty. It is celebrated around the time of Jingzhe, one of the 24 solar terms. The name jingzhe (驚蟄) has the meaning of awakening of the hibernated (implying insects). Jing (驚) means "startling", and zhe (蟄) refers to the hibernated (insects). This is the time during which the hibernating insects begin to wake up at the beginning of early spring, which is often accompanied by the arrival of the first rains, meaning the weather is getting warm. Longtaitou Festival is an important worship ritual of wishing for good harvest in the coming months. In addition to paying homage to the Dragon King, Tu Di Gong is also worshipped on Double Second, his birthday.
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Longtaitou Festival is traditional Chinese Festival, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1
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