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Dragon Heads-raising Day, 1. falls each year on the second day of the second lunar month, is one of ...
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Dragon Heads-raising Day, 1. falls each year on the second day of the second lunar month, is one of the Chinese traditional 2. (festival) as the proverb goes: “The dragon is awake, 3. (raise) his head.” On this day, dragons, a prominent totem (图腾) in Chinese culture, raise 4. (they) heads with the sound of thunder. Around this time, the earth is bursting with life—grass and trees are beginning to shoot up. In ancient China, people 5. (pray) the dragon god beside a river or a lake for the precious spring rain to breed their crops.
6. (tradition), food eaten on this day was renamed after parts of the dragon. For instance, wontons (馄饨) were called “dragons’ eyes”. The special foods usually eaten on this day include dragons’ scales, popcorn and pigs’ heads.
In Shanxi, people get their hair 7. (cut) in a symbolic move to remove the old and embrace the new. In 8. countryside in Hebei Province, people would fetch water from a well 9. dawn. It was believed 10. on this day the well was full of dragon eggs which would bring the collectors good harvest.
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