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Why can't I have my hair cut in the first month? When can I have my hair cut in the first month?

In a twinkling of an eye, the first month will soon be over, and many young friends (especially men) are facing the same problem: can I cut my hair in the first month when it's long? In China, there are many folk customs of "the first month can't cut my hair". The most popular saying is "the first month to cut my uncle's hair". Nowadays, many people are in a dilemma between "love beauty" and "love uncle". In this case, Xiaobian talks with everyone about "hair and uncle of the first month" in the attitude of science popularization

"On February 2, the Dragon looked up. Children and adults shave their heads and beg for a good show. '

Shaving faucet refers to shaving every year on the second day of February in the lunar calendar, that is, on the day when the people say "dragon heads up". It is generally believed that shaving on this day will make people lucky and prosperous. Therefore, the business of barbershop is more prosperous than before.

Relevant information: the lunar February 2 coincides with the solar term of hibernation. The meaning of Jingzhe is that the sound of spring thunder awakens the insects. It is said that the hibernating dragon will also be awakened by thunder, so there is a saying that "on February 2, the Dragon raised its head". The word "dragon head" was first used in the spring field, Volume 2 of the emperor's Beijing scenery brief written by Liu Dong of the Ming Dynasty. In many places in ancient China, when the Dragon raised its head, people worshiped the Dragon God by the river.

Speaking from the time when the Qing army entered the pass, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty decided to carry out a strange hairstyle in order to implement the idea of flattening the four sides and staying in the Central Plains. He shaved his hair from the front to the top of the head, then shaved all the hair around, leaving only one piece in the middle and a long pigtail.

In order to unify rivers and mountains, especially the ruling ideology, this hairstyle should be vigorously promoted in the Han Dynasty. The medium of implementation was the shaver. The Qing government gathered the shavers from all over the country and each of them was given a flag pole with an imperial edict. Then, the shavers went through the streets and took off people's hair one by one.

However, the implementation of this law at the very beginning was not easy. After all, the filial piety Sutra said: 'the body and skin, the parents, dare not damage, the beginning of filial piety', the Han people will not shave when they grow up, and both men and women will put their hair in a bun on their heads.

In many ancient costume plays, the form of men's half draped and half bunched is actually wrong, just to conform to the modern audience's aesthetic.

At that time, the slogan of the Qing Dynasty was to keep the head but not the hair. However, a series of heroic feats of the Han people completely infuriated the Manchu rulers. The infuriated Manchu regime began to take the way of slaughtering the city to enforce the order of shaving. Emperor Shunzhi picked up a quarrel at random, and under his command, there were successive tragedies, such as Yangzhou 10th and Jiading santu. The signs on the head of the Han people, together with their blood, immediately took the crane to the West.

Many Han people shouted 'better be a hairdresser than a shaver'. However, after all, the neck is not as hard as a steel knife, and the Han people are forced to shave their heads for the sake of the neck. However, the resistance did not stop. The first month without shaving is a form of resistance.

From 1644 to 1650 (from the first year of Shunzhi to the seventh year of Shunzhi), the Italian Wei Kuang Guo wrote "the war period of Tatar", recording the situation that the army and the people in southern China fought to protect their hair

'the soldiers and the common people took up arms and fought harder to protect their hair than for the emperor and the country. They not only drove the Tatars out of their cities, but also beat them to the Qiantang River and killed many Tatars. '

In fact, if they catch up with the past, they may recover the provincial cities and other towns, but they do not continue to develop and win, but are satisfied with keeping their hair. It's hard for Italians to understand that they don't hesitate to turn around to shave.

But the wheel of history is always moving forward and unstoppable. Under the high pressure of the Qing Dynasty, and gradually stable and prosperous governance, the shaving policy was implemented normally. Some literati doctors no longer shout "the head can be cut off, the hair can not be shaved", but use "the first month does not shave" to express their yearning for the previous dynasty, which is actually "nostalgia". In order to hide people's eyes and ears, they falsely call it "death uncle".