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Can I have my hair cut at the age of 29?

You can get a haircut at the age of twenty-nine.

You can have your hair cut before New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve is the last day of the year, which means to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. So generally speaking, people will choose to do something they can't do on New Year's Eve. After all, if they don't do it now, they will have to wait until the end of the new year, which will undoubtedly drag on for a long time.

In fact, cutting hair is not as simple as cutting hair casually, because in Feng Shui's view, cutting hair will also have a certain impact on personal fortune, so we must pay attention to choosing a good time after cutting hair, and it is best not to choose cutting hair in January, so that our fortune will not be destroyed when cutting hair.

First month's haircut statement

You can't get a haircut in the first month of the new year. According to the folk saying, if you don't shave your head in the first month, you will die. According to the research of folklore experts, this tradition came from the early Qing Dynasty. Han people pinned their nostalgia for the Ming Dynasty by not having their hair cut in the first month, and were later misrepresented as "dead uncles".

On the other hand, in ancient times, people naturally thought of starting from "head" on New Year's Eve, which made hairdressers very busy in the twelfth lunar month. In order to get a rest and visit relatives and friends in the first month, the barber industry gradually formed the rule of "no haircut in the first month" and finally formed a national custom.