On February 2 nd, the dragon looked up and cut his hair! What's the story? How did it happen?

The second day of the second lunar month is the traditional Spring Dragon Festival. According to legend, dragons rise on the second day of the second lunar month, and people have always had the custom of "getting rid of old hair". It is said that a haircut on this day can bring good luck for a year. Because there is a saying in the popular letter that "if you don't shave your head in the first month, you will die if you shave your head", many people will not go to the barber shop for a month after having their hair cut in the twelfth lunar month until February 2. However, this folk taboo has gradually faded in recent years.

2) Statement 2

The expression "February 2" is very popular in most parts of the country. On this day, there has been a saying among the people that "a haircut will get rid of the old". Giving a child a haircut is called "shaving". When the dragon looks up, it will bless the child to grow up healthily and get ahead when he grows up. Adults have a kind of haircut called "shaving tap", which is used to say goodbye to the old and welcome in the new, hoping to bring good luck. There is a folk proverb to prove it: "On February 2, the dragon looks up and the child has to shave his head."

3) Statement 3

It has been more than 300 years since 1644, when the Qing army entered the customs. All the men were asked by the government to keep the casserole, with no hair around them and a lock in the middle.

Han people are not like this. Before the Ming Dynasty, children under the age of 18 could have their hair cut. Usually they shave their heads when they have a haircut, and nothing grows. When they are over 18 years old and wear hats, they will never be able to cut their hair again, not until they die, because their parents have skinned them and affected them.

Therefore, men of Han nationality should keep their hair on their heads, and braid it and put it up. Therefore, Han men don't have a haircut, but after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, they were forced to have a haircut, so the common people had such an agreement that no one would have a haircut in the first month, and the uncle died in the first month. In fact, it is "thinking about the old", so it is called "shaving your head in the first month and thinking about the old". Later, people called it "dead uncle".

4) Statement 4

As the saying goes, "the dragon doesn't look up, it doesn't rain." The dragon is auspicious and the master of weathering rain. On the second day of the second lunar month, people pray for dragons to raise their heads to make rain and moisten everything, which is called "shaving the faucet in February" in history. It is generally believed that shaving one's head on this day will bring good luck and good luck. Therefore, the folk proverb says, "Shaving your head on February 2nd makes you feel refreshed all year round".