Why do you want to cut your hair during the Spring Festival?

This is just a custom. Cut it if you want. There's no reason to cut it. In ancient times, long hair was kept because it was inconvenient to cut hair, and it was even more inconvenient to wash hair. Because the original words of parents' words "The body has skin, and parents dare not damage it" mean that everything on the body is given by parents and cannot be damaged, which means that caring for the body is like loving parents.

This sentence does not mean not to have a haircut, but to cherish your body and life, not to hurt yourself, not to commit suicide, to love yourself, that is, to let people learn to love themselves.

Reasons for getting a haircut in the New Year:

1, spirit: A new year, a new atmosphere, everything should be completely new, the hair should be trimmed, and the spirit will come up.

2. custom: the older generation always said that they would not get a haircut before the Chinese New Year, or in the first month. It's unlucky, but now everyone knows it's superstition and doesn't care so much.

3. Holiday: During the Chinese New Year, barber shop workers have to go home and close for half a month, so there is no place to cut, so the habit of cutting hair during the Chinese New Year has been passed down.

Why you can't get a haircut in the first month:

There used to be an old custom that haircuts were not allowed in the first month. If you get a haircut, you will die.

It is said that a barber remembered his uncle with affection in the first month, and couldn't help crying and went out of business, which became a custom over time; The "missing uncle" has also evolved into a "dead uncle".

More broadly speaking, it is related to the entry of the Qing army into the customs. Han people oppose compulsory haircuts and miss the former dynasty. As a last resort, they didn't have a haircut in the first month, "missing the old" and euphemistically missing the Ming Dynasty. As a result, they gradually became "dead uncles." Changing the name is probably a means to gain legitimacy.

In fact, in any case, it is a legend. The real reason remains to be tested and may remain a mystery forever.

But as far as customs are concerned, it may be related to the ancient lifestyle. At the end of the year, I cleaned up inside and out, changed clothes and took a bath. In ancient rural areas, especially in the north, bathing may not be so convenient and common. Of course, hair is also necessary. It is reasonable and normal to have a haircut at the end of the year and not to have a haircut next month.

Why can't I get a haircut in the first month?