Can you get a haircut in Chinese New Year

The Spring Festival can cut hair.

There is nothing special about cutting hair on New Year's Day, except that there is a saying that you can't get a haircut on New Year's Day. According to folklore, "the first month does not shave the head, shaving the head of the dead uncle." According to folklore experts, this tradition comes from the early Qing Dynasty on the mandatory implementation of the Han Chinese "shaving policy". Han people to the first month of ignore hair to send to the Ming Dynasty's "thinking about the old" feelings, and later blackmail for "dead uncle".

This is also a typical example of a custom that has evolved from a trade to a national custom. Ancient New Year's Eve to welcome the new will naturally think of the "head" to start, which makes the shaving master in the waxing month is particularly busy. In order to be able to get a break in the first month and visit friends and relatives, the barber industry slowly formed "the first month of the rule of not cutting hair", and eventually formed a national custom.

However, this custom has long since begun to fade. Young people because of the time, and do not care too much about this custom, in recent years the first month of the hair slowly increased, many barbershop around the tenth of the first month opened, the income is not bad.

Traditional Chinese New Year customs:

1, buy New Year's Day

Chinese New Year's Eve culture has a long history and has given rise to a wide variety of New Year's Eve customs all over the country, which are very different from the north and south and are very distinctive. Although customs vary from place to place, but the preparation of New Year's goods, New Year's gifts is almost the whole country's "New Year's Eve must".

Purchasing New Year's goods, including food, wear, wear, use, stickers (New Year's red), send (New Year's) gifts, etc., collectively known as the "New Year's goods", and the process of purchasing New Year's goods is called "to do New Year's goods". The process of purchasing Lunar New Year goods is an important activity of the Chinese people during the Spring Festival.

2, sacrificial stove

Folk sacrificial stove, from the ancient fire worship practices. Such as "interpretation of the name" said: "stove. Create also, create food also." The duty of the god of the stove is to control the stove fire and manage the food, which was later expanded to examine the good and evil on earth in order to bring down the blessings and disasters. The belief in the God of the Stove is a reflection of the Chinese people's dream of having more than enough food and clothing.

3, dust sweeping

In folklore, on the eve of the New Year, there is a "Lunar New Year's Eve, dust sweeping (also known as sweeping the house) custom. The folk proverb says "24, sweep the house". Folk called "dust day". Sweeping dust is the end of the year cleaning, every household to clean the environment, cleaning all kinds of appliances, washing bedding curtains, cleaning the six village courtyard, dusting dust cobwebs, dredging nullahs and ditches.

Everywhere overflowing with joy to engage in health, clean and welcome the happy atmosphere of the New Year. According to folklore: because the "dust" and "Chen" consonant, dust sweeping before the year has the meaning of "in addition to the old cloth new". Sweeping dust is intended to be all the poor luck, bad luck all sweep out the door to pray for the next year Qingji.