In the countryside during the New Year there is a custom of not washing hair, what is the reason or origin of this?

On the first day of the New Year, my mom doesn't allow me to wash my hair either, and I'm not sure why I can't wash my hair, so until now, I won't wash my hair on the first day of the New Year. So on New Year's Eve, no matter how cold the weather is, we have to wash our hair, take a bath, wash our clothes, and be clean for New Year's Eve.

When I think of my childhood, at two or three o'clock in the afternoon on New Year's Eve, we sisters went to the factory bathing room in the factory where my father worked, and washed our hair, bathed, and washed our clothes, and spent the New Year's Eve in a clean and unforgettable memory.

On the first day of the new year, we should not work in the fields; we should not move the kitchen knife; we should not sweep the floor...

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What we should not do is to wash our hair and clothes, which both involve water, and water is considered to be the wealth of the people, and the first day of the first month of the new year is the first day of the year. The first day of the New Year is the first day of the year, washing hair and clothes on this day will wash away the wealth of the year. People usually take a bath on the day of the New Year's Eve to wash away all the bad luck of the year and welcome the new year with freshness.

I remember when I was a child, my family was very poor, my hometown is also located in the north, the winter bath at home is almost impossible to take a bath. Sometimes it is a winter will not be able to take two baths, each bath is to run to the township, the town inside the bath hall. Later, the village has a large bathhouse, every year to the New Year's Eve business is exceptionally hot, then I remember most clearly is my mother rubbed me hard pain.

In the countryside, water has the name of water god, its birthday is the first day of the first month. Hair washing is to use clean water to take away the dirt on the head, because the countryside has a special reverence for the gods. Because of the special reverence for the gods in the countryside, the old generation believed that one should not wash one's hair on the first day of the first month, even if the hair is oily and dirty. Because, washing hair on the first day of the first month is considered to be a great disrespect to the god of water. For the same reason, you can't wash your clothes on the first day of the first month.

But, the New Year is not just fun and delicious, there are some precepts need to be observed together, as if the first day of the New Year can not wash their hair, can not sweep the floor, can not splash the water, etc., today is the first day of the New Year, these things may be understood. Then, to this year to live smoothly, family and career to good development, in the first two years, these things must be done.