May I take a shower and wash my hair?

People can't take a bath or wash their hair on the first and fifteenth day of the New Year's Day, otherwise they will easily commit taboos.

In many parts of our country, there are such taboos. The custom of not washing your hair on the fifteenth day of the first day comes from Buddhism. Because Buddhism stipulates that Buddhists should fast and chant Buddhist scriptures on the fifteenth day of the first month, and tidy up before the fifteenth day of the first month. If you wash your hair and take a bath that day, it is blasphemy and you will be punished.

It is said that the birthday of water god is on the first day. If you take a bath and wash your hair on this day, the latter is washing clothes, which is a disrespect for the water god. It is said that the wealth is strong on the fifteenth day of the first month, and it is the practice in Guangdong not to wash your hair on the fifteenth day of the first month, otherwise it will wash away the wealth, which is bad for business and work.

In the past, women had to choose an auspicious day when washing their hair. There are some sayings, such as knowing life on the first day of the first lunar month, the happiness of the fifteenth master, and so on. If they wash their hair and take a bath at an inappropriate time, it will easily bring bad luck and affect their future fortune.

What are the taboos of the fifteenth lunar month?

Quarrel on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar will make the family unhappy, and it is easy to make the originally harmonious family no longer harmonious. Quarrel in this day when the yin flourishes and the yang declines will make all the harmony in the family noisy. It is best not to have a haircut on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar. Hair means longevity, and a haircut is not good for relatives' lives.

We may cut off our nails when they grow, but it's best not to cut them on the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, because cutting them on this day may make the work fortune of the whole year not smooth. After all, nails grow on our hands, and our work and study are inseparable from our hands. That is to say, if we cut our nails on this day, we will cut off our work fortune for one year.