First month shaving head is not to die uncle?

China is a very connotation of the country, with thousands of years of history and culture, the ancients worship heaven and earth ghosts and gods, so there are a lot of taboos in the folklore, which is the most lively New Year, there are many taboos, such as what the first day of the year can not be scolded the child, New Year's Day taboo cleaning and dumping of garbage,

There is also a particularly famous ballad is the "New Year's Day does not shave the head, shaving the head of death! The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night.

The first month of shaving

So what is the origin of the first month of shaving dead uncle? The Qing government called up the shavers and issued each of them a "hanging flagpole" with an imperial decree.

"Stay hair not head, stay head not hair" under the high pressure of the Qing Dynasty, some literati no longer shouted "head can be broken hair can not be shaved", but to "the first month of the head is not shaved" to express the thoughts of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, "thinking of the old", in order to cover up, blackmail for the "death of the uncle". Ultimately, the blackmail, into the "first month of the head is not shaved, shaved head dead uncle" of the folk taboo.

Shaved hair and easy to dress

A shaved head that happened more than 300 years ago has not yet ended.

So the first month of shaving really dead uncle?

The answer is certainly not, to this day, there is no need to look y into the first month of shaving and dead uncle's relationship, from the Chinese medicine point of view, the first month is not suitable for a haircut is based on the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Nei Jing - Suwen" recorded: Spring March, this is called hair Chen, heaven and earth are born, everything to glory, night lying early, wide walk in the court, was hair slow shape, to make Zhisheng, born and do not kill, give and do not take, reward and do not punish, this spring gas should not, and the spring is the first time in the world. This spring should be, the way of life. Against the liver, summer for the cold change, Feng long less." That is to say, spring is the time for everything to sprout, push out the new, and should not prevent the growth of new things. Corresponding to the hair, is to let the hair spread out, let it grow freely, and should not be cut, against the spring of life.

Shaved head

With the development of the times and changes, many people are in the New Year's Eve before the clean and organize themselves, and to the second of February, almost just the cycle of hair organization, and to cater to the "dragon head" a good day, people are accustomed to the second of February to cut the head.