Can I get a haircut during the Spring Festival?

You can cut your hair during the Spring Festival.

There is nothing special about cutting your hair in the New Year, but there is a saying that you can't have a haircut in 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 originated from the "tonsure policy" imposed on Han people in the early Qing Dynasty. Han people pinned their nostalgia for the Ming Dynasty by not having a haircut in the first month, and later misrepresented it as "dead uncle".

This is also a typical example of the evolution from industry customs to national customs. The ancients naturally thought that New Year's Eve began with "head", which made the hairdressers in the twelfth lunar month very busy. 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.

However, this custom has begun to fade. Because of time, young people don't care much about this custom. In recent years, the number of people getting haircuts in the first month has gradually increased. Many barbershops are opened around the tenth day of the first month, and the income is not bad.

Brief introduction of traditional customs of Spring Festival;

1, buy new year's goods

China's annual custom culture has a long history, and all kinds of Chinese New Year customs originate from all parts of the country, and the north and the south have their own characteristics. Although customs vary from place to place, it is almost a "must-have" for Chinese New Year to prepare new year's goods and send new year's gifts all over the country.

Buying new year's goods, including food, clothing, clothes, use, stickers (New Year's Eve) and gifts, are collectively called "New Year's Goods", and the process of buying new year's goods is called "Buying New Year's Goods". Celebrating the Spring Festival is an important activity for China people.

Step 2 sacrifice the stove

The folk sacrificial furnace originated from the ancient custom of worshipping fire. For example, Ming Shi said, "The kitchen. Make it, create food. " Kitchen God's duty is to take charge of the kitchen fire and manage the diet. Later, it was expanded to investigate human good and evil to reduce good and evil. Sacrificing to the Kitchen God has a history of thousands of years in China, and the belief in the Kitchen God is a reflection of China people's dream of "adequate food and clothing".

Step 3 clean the dust

In the folk, there is a custom of "sweeping the house on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month" on New Year's Eve. The folk proverb says "Twenty-four, sweep the house". Folk call it "Dust Day". Dust removal is year-end cleaning. Every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of appliances, remove bedding curtains, clean the courtyard in Liu Lu, dust off cobwebs and dredge culverts in open channels.

Everywhere is filled with the joyful atmosphere of cleaning and welcoming the Spring Festival cleanly. According to the folk saying, because "dust" and "Chen" are homophonic, sweeping dust years ago means "getting rid of the old and not getting new". The purpose of sweeping dust is to sweep away all bad luck and bad luck, so as to pray for a clear and auspicious year in the coming year.