Why didn't you get a haircut in the first month? You have to wait until February 2 nd when the dragon looks up.

There is a custom of "no haircut in the first month" in most parts of our country. The reason is very simple, "getting a haircut in the first month killed my uncle." What is the inevitable connection between hair and uncle? I'm afraid not many people know.

When the Qing army entered the customs, in order to "smooth the periphery and leave the Central Plains", the Qing emperor decided to have a strange hairstyle: shave the hair from the front to the top of the head, and then shave all the hairlines around, leaving only a middle section and a long big braid. In order to unify the country, especially the ruling ideology, this hairstyle should be widely promoted among Han people. The medium of implementation is hairdressers, and the Qing government gathered all the barbers in the country and gave everyone a "flagpole" with an imperial edict on it. Subsequently, these hairdressers walked the streets and took people's hair off one by one with goodwill and goodwill.

The Han people, who have experienced countless dynasties, did not show much intensity about who should be the emperor, but this attack really annoyed some people. At that time, the slogan of the Qing dynasty was "keep your hair, keep your hair." This tough approach was unexpectedly opposed by the traditionally weak Jiangnan people: Jiangnan scholars thought that shaving their heads was a great insult to their personality, so they rebelled, hoping to make the Manchu people converge through the strength of the masses. However, the emperor shunzhi made some mistakes at random, and at the command, tragedies such as "Yangzhou 10th" and "Jiading Three Slaughters" appeared one after another, and the symbols on the heads of Han people took their blood to the west.

1644 to 1650 (from the first year of Shunzhi to the seventh year of Shunzhi), Italian Martino Martini wrote the famous Battle of Tatar. It records the situation of soldiers and civilians fighting to protect their hair in southern China: both soldiers and civilians took up arms and swore to protect their hair, which was more heroic than the emperor and the country. They not only drove the Tatars out of their city, but also drove them out of Qiantang River, killing many Tatars. In fact, if they catch up with the past, they may recover the provincial capital and other towns, but instead of continuing to develop and win, they are only content to keep their hair.

Italians don't understand our national conditions. What he saw was only a small partial victory. He doesn't know that the world is a pure world. "Leave a hair without a head, leave a hair without a head", "Tatar" is serious. Under the pressure of the Qing dynasty, some literati no longer shouted "no shaving", but expressed their yearning for the Ming dynasty with "no shaving in the first month", which was really "homesickness" and was misrepresented as "dead uncle" in order to hide people's eyes and ears.

A haircut farce that happened more than 300 years ago is not over yet.