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[quote=RITA,224196]1, Except representing the supreme power, Dragon has penetrated into almost every aspect of people's life in China. We may try to summarize those aspects. I have mentioned in another thread, that the 2nd day of the 2nd lunar month is supposed to be the day the Dragon wakes up from the winter hibernation - well I doubt if dragon needs one - and raise his head.  The folk culture on this day requires people to do the haircut to raise heads together with Dragon, and this seems not difficult because the whole first month of lunar calendar are not encouraged to do anything to your heads. You may desperately need to go the the barber's.  The difficult things are foods on that day, you have to eat something for the whole day, that is given, but anything you eat is supposed to be part of the Dragon's body: noodles are dragon's goatee, cakes are his squama and dumplings are his ears, etc. Those are ordinary people's daily food, so eating dragon's goatee or squama or ears won't hurt the dragon much and he would not get mad at you. But people are trying to avoid RICE, because rice represents the dragon's sons, I have never count how many grains of rice in one bowl, but that must be a lot.    Womens are prohibited to used needles to avoid accidentally hurt dragon's eyes.[/quote]

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