Can you get a haircut in the seventh month of the lunar calendar?

In the Han Chinese and many ethnic minorities there is a popular custom of forbidding haircutting and shaving during funerals. There is a death in the family, and once a man learns of the evil belief, he is not allowed to cut his hair or shave his face for a month or a hundred days. Among the beliefs, may be because of the hair and beard from parents, so do not abandon the deceased in the forefathers, to show filial piety and respect for the heart, in order to show grief and longing for the feelings;

Some people say, is the memory of the deceased sadness and feelings, do not think of organizing the face, in order to show filial piety; there are also said, do not cut the hair, do not shave is in order to change their own appearance, so that the spirits of the deceased can not be identified, so as not to avoid the murder of their own.

The first two sayings are related to etiquette, closer, is the flow and influence of Confucianism. The latter statement is related to the hair whiskers and the soul, as well as the hair whiskers can be harmed through sorcery, such as the body of the popular beliefs.