Why can't you cut your hair on the first day of the month?

Don't cut hair on Dragon Head is a traditional custom handed down from ancient times, while the weather is not as cold as it should be in the first month, making it less suitable for haircuts.

In southern China, the weather in the first month is relatively warm, with temperatures generally ranging from 10 degrees Celsius to 20 degrees Celsius, but rainy and cloudy weather is also possible. In northern China, on the other hand, the first month of the year is a cold season, with lower temperatures, often between -10°C and 5°C, and sometimes severe weather such as high winds and snowfall. In general, most of the weather in the first month is cold and dry. So such weather is not very suitable for cutting hair. Always wear a hat after getting a haircut.

February 2 customs include:

Eat dragon food: people in the north on this day to eat more food in the name of the dragon. Eat spring cake is called "eat dragon scale", eat noodles is called "eat dragon beard", eat wontons for "eat dragon eyes", eat dumplings is called "eat dragon ear

"Dragon head" is also a rural agricultural festival. Farmer's proverb says: "February 2, the dragon raised its head, everyone small households to make plowing oxen". Spring rains are as expensive as oil. If the spring rain is abundant, it is a sign of a good year's harvest.

The Yellow River Delta and some areas along the river also have the custom of "releasing dragon lanterns". Many people with reeds or broomcorn millet into a boat, inserted candles or put with radish dug into a small bowl of oil, to the evening, into the river or the bay lit. Through this entertainment and at the same time to convey a good wish.

China's northern part of the widely circulated "February 2, dragon head; big warehouse full, small warehouse flow" folk proverb. Early in the morning on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, villagers in many areas of the north get up early, put the family's grain religiously in the middle of the warehouse, and intentionally sprinkled in the periphery of the warehouse, symbolizing the year's bumper harvest.