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Can you get a haircut around Ching Ming?

You can get a haircut on Qingming Day.

There is no taboo on cutting hair on this day. Qingming, is one of the twenty-four festivals in China. According to the solar calendar, it is between April 4 and 6 every year. Ancient people attached great importance to this festival. As a festival, Qingming period is the period of China's most areas, all the trees withered winter has passed, wind and sunshine, warblers fly grass, willow green peach red, vibrant so called Qingming.

According to the ancients, Qingming Festival is also a "ghost festival". If you need to walk at night during this period of friends, must remember to carry with you a good-luck charm, such as mahogany hand beads. At the same time, don't forget what I've said time and time again: show your forehead, don't cover it with your hair, because that's where your divine light is.

Traditional custom is not out of the first month of the lunar calendar, is not to cut hair. Generally speaking, February 2, the dragon raises its head, is a day to get a haircut, so the Qingming Festival can get a haircut, but the tradition is different in different places.

Haircutting

1, cut the hair day

According to the customary, cut the hair before we will wash a head before cutting. And wash your hair is in fact also pay attention to, not every day is suitable for washing, like 1, 2, 7, 9, 12, 17, 20, 21, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30 these days it is best not to wash your hair, it is easy to affect their own luck.

So these days are naturally not suitable to cut hair, it is best to choose to avoid. In addition, according to traditional Chinese custom, during the Spring Festival, hair cuts have to wait until February 2, the day the dragon carries the head. Therefore, many people are in February 2 this day to cut hair, there should be "shaving the dragon's head" of the auspicious meaning, but also want to think of luck when shaving the head of the symbolism.

Only by choosing the hair color according to one's own five elements, dyeing hair can play a favorable role, while if one chooses a color that is contradictory to oneself, it may lead to a decline in fortune, which is very unlucky.

3, hair treatment

From another point of view, the hair from Chinese medicine has a medicinal name "blood", it is a person's qi and blood window. From a person's hair on the body to see a variety of disease information, hair is like receiving information and transmitting information antenna, so people can not not pay attention to their hair.

The cut hair must be managed, such as sick people, hair is suitable for throwing to the river, increase life expectancy; poor people, hair burned, can increase the blessing, develop wisdom; sick people's hair thrown in the cottage, can play a role in eliminating disasters, must not be thrown away.