Where did the sentence "My uncle died in the first month" come from?

The phrase "My uncle died in the first month" originated in the Qing Dynasty.

Since the Qing army entered the customs, the Qing emperor decided to implement the strange hairstyle of "pacifying the surrounding areas and leaving the Central Plains". He shaved his hair from the front to the top of his head, and then shaved off the hair around him, leaving only a long braid in the middle. In order to unify the country, especially the ruling ideology, this hairstyle should be widely popularized in the Han Dynasty. The medium of realization is the barber. The Qing government recruited barbers from all over the country and gave everyone a sacred flagpole.

Under the high-pressure and gradually stable prosperous rule of the Qing Dynasty, the haircut policy was implemented normally. Some literati no longer shouted "no shaving", but expressed their yearning for the former dynasty with "no shaving in the first month", which was really "nostalgia" and was falsely called "dead uncle" in order to hide people's eyes and ears.

This statement is said to be from the twenty-four-year edition of Ye County Records, Volume II, Customs:

"I heard that in the first month of the fourth year of Shunzhi, the old villagers talked about shaving their heads. When the system changed in the Ming Dynasty, the people thought of the old man because they shaved their hair, so they said' thinking of the old'. After a long time, I mistook it for a' dead uncle'. "

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In fact, the saying that "my uncle died of a haircut in the first month" actually stems from a "misunderstanding". After the Qing Dynasty, Han people were forced to shave their hair and braid their hair. They miss the former dynasty and are unwilling to do so. They refused to shave their heads in the first month to commemorate the old dynasty, which means they miss the old dynasty. "Dead Uncle" is a homonym of "thinking about the old", and it became "dead uncle" after being misinformed.

According to research, 1644, after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the government required all men to keep a "casserole head", that is, shave their hair on their foreheads and tie a braid behind their heads. Therefore, many people, in combination with observing traditional habits and remembering the feelings of the Ming Dynasty, stipulate that everyone should not shave their heads in the first month, and name this action "thinking about the past", which means "remembering the past history". But over time, word of mouth, the homonym of "thinking of the old" became "dead uncle", so there was a folk custom that has been passed down to this day.

In a sense, the core of China culture is a kind of "human relations culture", which pays attention to fatherly love, filial piety and respect for brothers and friends. This cultural background makes the original "misunderstanding" become a powerful force. With the development of society, people should choose the inheritance of "saving customs". Modern people should keep pace with the times to understand the cultural connotation of the Spring Festival and change from "paying attention to ceremony" to "paying attention to culture" during the Spring Festival. Don't let a misunderstanding affect people's normal life. It is understood that in some big cities in the south of China, the rule of not having a haircut in the first month has gradually faded, but in a wider scope in China, this ancient "annual custom" still exists, and people need to update their concepts.

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