Will shaving your head in the first month kill your uncle?

China is a connotative country with thousands of years of history and culture. The ancients respected ghosts and gods, so there were many taboos among the people, including the most lively Chinese New Year, such as not scolding children on the first day of the New Year and not taking out the garbage during the New Year.

There is also a particularly famous ballad, "If you don't shave your head in the first month, your uncle will die". So far, many old people are convinced of this. For example, a few years ago, an uncle in Changchun found that his nephew had shaved his head in the first month, so he got angry and fought. In this uncle's view, this is because his nephew cursed him for his early death. Later, after many mediations, the uncle gave up.

Shave your head in the first month.

So what is the origin of my uncle's death in the first month?

The concept of beheading in the first month originated in the Qing Dynasty. When shaving and changing clothes, Han people shave their hair from the front to the top of their heads, and then shave all the hair around them, leaving a pig's tail right through the eyes of copper coins. This is the famous money rat tail in history.

money rat tail

The medium of implementation was hairdressers, and the Qing government gathered all the barbers in the country and gave everyone a "flagpole" with an imperial edict on it.

Under the pressure of the Qing dynasty, some literati no longer shouted "no shaving", but expressed their thoughts of the Ming dynasty with "no shaving in the first month", which was really "nostalgia". In order to hide people's eyes and ears, he was misinformed as "dead uncle." Finally, "if you don't shave your head in the first month, you will die if you shave your head" has become a folk taboo. "

Change the hairstyle of Manchu, change the clothing of Manchu.

A haircut farce that happened more than 300 years ago is not over yet.

So is it really dead to shave your head in the first month?

The answer is definitely not. Today, we don't need to delve into the relationship between the first month's haircut and my uncle's death. From the perspective of Chinese medicine, it is also based on the fact that the first month is not suitable for haircut. According to the Yellow Emperor's Neijing, in March, this is called Chen, and the world is born. Everything is proud of this, lying at night and getting up early, striding in court and walking slowly, taking this as a life, living without killing. Otherwise, it will hurt the liver, it will be cold in summer and there will be few elders. "That is to say, spring is the season when everything germinates and brings forth the new, and it should not stop the growth of new things. Corresponding to hair, it is to let it hang freely and let it grow freely, but it can't be cut off, which is against the spirit of spring.

barber

With the development and changes of the times, many people clean themselves up before New Year's Eve, and on February 2nd, it is almost the time to arrange their hair, which caters to the good day of "the dragon looks up", so people are used to cutting their hair on February 2nd.