Careful people may find that, after the Spring Festival holiday, there is an industry that is much longer than the national statutory holidays, that is, the hairdressing industry. Many barbershops don't go to work until the 10th day of the first month, or even the 15th day of the first month. In fact, it's because of the folk custom of not cutting your hair in the first month. Why can't you cut your hair in the first month?
Because the first month is new year's day, many people in order to meet the new year can have a new look, in December has been the hair, so the first month shaving and hairdressing people will naturally be less. If you can't shave your head in the first month, you want to get rich in the new year.
Starting from the time when the Qing army entered the pass, the Qing government decided to adopt a strange hairstyle in order to flatten the four sides and stay in the Central Plains: shave the hair from the front to the top of the brain, and then shave all the hairlines around, leaving only one piece in the middle and a long pigtail (Golden moustail). 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.
Later, these shavers would walk through the streets and take off people's hair one by one. At that time, the slogan of the Manchu Dynasty was to keep the head but not the hair. This kind of hard line practice was unexpectedly opposed by the ever weak people in the south of the Yangtze River: Jiangnan scholars thought that shaving was a great insult to their personality, so they rose up in revolt and hoped to make Manchu people converge through the strength of the masses. However, with a single order, there were tragedies such as Yangzhou 10th and Jiading santu in succession. As a pioneer, dowduo, Prince of shuodei of Manchu, waved his army southward and was tenaciously resisted by the army and the people of Nanming. Later, for the problem of shaving, many people of Ming Dynasty paid a heavy price. In Jiangnan, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Hubei and the surrounding areas, people specially let their hair be short and long in the first month of each year to commemorate the demise of the Ming Dynasty, "there is the sadness of" Shuli "!
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In the folk, there is a taboo Ballad: "in the first month, if you don't shave your head, your uncle will die.". People who are now old still have taboos about it. There are media reports that in Changchun, because my uncle found his nephew had a haircut, he was very unhappy. In this uncle's view, this nephew is' too headstrong ', impolite, and his haircut in the first month is undoubtedly a' curse 'on him. At last, it's up to relatives to adjust.
In the first month, there is no haircut, but it is still said by word of mouth in many places, especially for children with uncles. Some parents pay special attention to it, for fear that the children's haircut in the first month will be harmful to the children's uncles. Of course, this also seems to be a little fuss, far fetched, some superstitious elements.
The two seemingly unrelated things, the first month's no shaving and the dead uncle, are closely related. The source of this is a kind of attachment and misinformation. According to the twenty fourth edition of the Republic of China's Ye county annals, Volume II, customs, revealed the mystery of Customs: 'hearing the old talk of Zhuxiang, the imperial edict of shaving was implemented in the first month of the fourth year of Shunzhi, when the system of the Ming Dynasty changed, people thought about the old monarch because of shaving, so it was called "thinking about the old";. For a long time, I mistakenly made & lsquo; uncle & rsquo;. 'the first month does not shave, it was' Nostalgia'. That is to say, the Qing army forced the Han people to shave their hair and stay their pigtails, while the Han people became 'nostalgic' because they cherished their homeland and agreed not to shave their heads in the first month to show that they would not forget the old king. For a long time, 'Nostalgia' became a homonym of 'dead uncle', and eventually it became a folk taboo of 'don't shave your head in the first month, shave your head and die your uncle'.
And 'no shaving in the first month' is also related to the ancient Han people's attention to hair. The book of filial piety says: 'the body is hairy and the parents dare not hurt. Filial piety begins. The ancient Han people believed that "hair" was given by their parents, so they had no right to "dispose of" their own hair, and the hair was also considered as important as their own life, so the ancient people often tied their hair in a bun. Only when a person is disillusioned with the world of mortals and wants to become a monk and a nun can he show his determination not to love the world. In ancient times, people did not cut their hair, but also remembered their ancestors. In ancient times, people thought that the importance of hair was almost equal to that of the head, so "shaving" is "shaving". Nowadays, people call "shaving" as "hairdressing", which is just to arrange the hair. It can be seen that with the change of the times, there is something different in the concept of "hairdressing".
In this way, it seems that "it's not appropriate to have a haircut in the first month" is a traditional concept and a superstition. To this day, there is no need to do too much research on the relationship between "first month haircut" and "dead uncle". From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, it is reasonable not to cut hair in the first month. According to the classic of the Yellow Emperor's interior & middot; Suwen, in March of spring, this is called FA Chen. Heaven and earth are born together. All things are proud of themselves. They lie in the night and rise early. They walk widely in the court. They are slow in shape, so that they are willing to live, not to kill, not to seize, not to reward, not to punish. This is the response of spring Qi and the way to maintain their lives. If you go against it, you will hurt your liver. If you go against it, you will be cold in summer. If you worship the elderly, you will be few. That is to say, spring is the time for all things to sprout and bring forth new things, instead of stopping the growth of new things. Corresponding to the hair, it is to let the hair spread and grow freely, instead of being cut off, contrary to the spirit of spring.
Feng shui master Xu Shaofeng warm tips: there is a folk custom of "dragon head" on February 2, the day of "shaving the dragon head". If you still have taboos about "first month shaved uncle", you may as well catch up with "shaved dragon head" on this day, and make a good start for the New Year!