Cann't you get a haircut when there's a funeral at home? What's the point?

There is a saying that "my uncle died in the first month when he got a haircut". It is also a traditional custom to avoid cutting hair and shaving at funerals. They are all some old traditions and feudal superstitions in China.

In addition, the information I checked online is as follows:

Folklore: In the first month, my nephew died.

If so, there would be a lot less trouble in the world. There is no need to fight for those terrible people. As long as his nephew is caught in the first month and sent to the barber shop, the problem will be solved. On the other hand, my uncle dare not offend my nephew too much, otherwise my nephew will spend a few dollars in the first month and my uncle's family will have a funeral.

In fact, there is no causal relationship between shaving in the first month and the death of my nephew. It is only a folk custom not to have a haircut in the first month. According to legend, a long time ago, there was a poor barber who had a very good relationship with his uncle. When he pays a New Year call to his uncle, he always fails to come up with a decent gift. Therefore, when the barber visited relatives, he brought a haircut tool and carefully shaved his uncle as a gift. My uncle understands my nephew's filial piety. Every Spring Festival, he waits for his nephew to give him a haircut when he visits New Year. Later, when my uncle passed away, the barber would think of his dead uncle when he arrived at the Spring Festival, and he couldn't concentrate on cutting someone else's hair. Hairdressing is a job of cutting with a knife. If you are a little distracted, you may make a small cut on the customer's face. If the customer is not satisfied, he will blame the barber and ask why. The barber said, fourth uncle. Therefore, people are afraid to ask this barber for a haircut in the first month. Because "thinking" and "death" are homophonic, people misinform the reason for not having a haircut as "dead uncle".

There is another saying that seems to have historical basis. After the Qing army entered the customs, in order to completely destroy the will of the Han people, the order of "shaving hair and changing clothes" was issued, and in the second year of Shunzhi (1645), a special order of "shaving hair" was issued, forcing people to keep Manchu hairstyle: shaving the hair on the front skull and braiding the hair on the back of the head. Hairdressing is a common thing now, but in that special historical period, it was a political war of conquest and anti-conquest. The Han people quoted scripture as saying, "Parents who suffer from skin damage dare not do so. Filial piety begins. " The rulers did not buy this set, and issued a warning of "leaving the head without leaving the hair, leaving the hair without leaving the head". Although this warning frightened many people, it also caused strong resistance from some people, especially the Jiangnan scholars, who shouted the slogan "Don't shave your head". The trivial matter of shaving one's head has sublimated into a conflict between two cultures. People in Jiading, Jiangsu province rose up against the "haircut order", but their arms failed to twist their thighs. After the "Jiading Three Slaughters", their hard resistance turned to soft grinding. People express their dissatisfaction with the Qing Dynasty and their yearning for the Ming Dynasty by "not shaving their heads in the first month", which means "thinking about the past and thinking about the future" and pretending to be "dead uncle" in order to hide people's eyes and ears. Needless to say, over time, it is also rumored that "the first month of shaving, my nephew died."

The Ming and Qing dynasties have long been history, and the incident of shaving hair has come to an end, but "not shaving your head in the first month" has evolved into a custom. If people are out of filial piety and are afraid of hurting their uncles, there is no need to have a haircut in the first month; If the hair is already long, it should be cut. Actually, no one can hurt it.