When can't I cut my nails?

You can't cut your nails on New Year's Day.

You can't cut your nails on New Year's Day, because you can't use scissors, knives and other sharp tools on New Year's Day, saying, "It's inevitable that you will talk about right and wrong on the first day."

On New Year's Eve, many old people said they would cut their nails today, but they couldn't cut them or use knives on the first day of the New Year's Eve. The garbage should be taken out today, not on the first day of New Year's Day.

Taboos for nail cutting

There is a folk saying that you can't cut your nails at night, because cutting your nails at night will lead to onychomycosis, or cut off your soul, or you won't see your parents for the last time, but it's all a folk saying.

At that time, the older generation said that there was a reason why nails could not be cut at night, mainly because the sanitary conditions were generally poor; There are many bacteria, which are easy to be infected when injured, and there is no standing anti-inflammatory band-aid or something; There is no electricity in the countryside, and everyone is a kerosene lamp, with lights like beans. This is the scene.

At that time, there were basically no nail clippers in the countryside, but scissors were used. It is not easy for children to control scissors, and it is easy to hurt their hands and feet, especially under the dim kerosene lamp.