People died less than a hundred days for what can not cut hair.

In the Han Chinese and many ethnic minorities in the popularity of the funeral taboo haircut, shaving custom. Someone died in the family, once the men learned of the murderous beliefs, they are not allowed to cut their hair and shave their faces in a month or a hundred days. One of the beliefs, may be because of the hair and beard from parents, so not in the deceased ancestors abandoned, to show filial piety and respect for the heart, in order to express grief and longing for the feelings; some people say, it is the memory of the deceased sadness and feelings, do not want to organize the face to show filial piety; there are also people say, do not cut hair, do not shave is in order to change their own appearance, so that the spirits of the dead can not be identified, so as not to be affected by the evil things to their own. The first two sayings are related to rituals, relatively close, is the flow and influence of Confucianism. The latter said with the hair and beard and soul, and hair and beard can be harmed through sorcery, such as my form and so on the popular beliefs related to the.