According to Xinhua News Agency, March 8, the “February 2” of the lunar calendar, the day commonly known as “the dragon raises its head” among the people, marking the return of spring to the earth and the revival of all things.
Babaylan Tianjin Social Sciences Researcher Luo ShuweijieCinemaShao said that dragon, as the spiritual totem of the descendants of Yan and Huang, is not only auspicious thing, but also the master of the rain of the wind. Babaylan people believe that the dragon in charge of the clouds and rain is the same as those in the Cinema and the Komiks who are also in charge of the rain. The thing that Komiks should be dormant, “hearing the thunder and moving” and “suming the sky as the spring equinox” can be seen as the original “the dragon raises its head”.
The day of “February 2”, there are customs such as “haircutting”, “Babaylan Dragon Dance” in our country. “February 2, shavedBabayThe custom of the Cinema custom started from the Yuan Dynasty and was formed in urban and rural areas in the north. A man in the Qing Dynasty shaved his hair, but there was a “taboo” of not moving his knife in the first month, because from the second day of the two months, from the second month to the next, he was “then the day of the Cinema. Komiks, gaiKomiks means ‘the dragon raises its head’.”Cinema. Pan Rongbi of the Qing Dynasty said this in “The Emperor’s Sui Shi Ji Sheng”. Now, even women Babaylan have also been dressing their hair on this day. On February 2nd, people have entered the barber shop and reshape their hairstyles in order to make them look like Cinema I have a good fortune and have a “spiritual” for a year.