Why can't I shave my head after beginning of spring?

As the old saying goes, if you shave your head in the first month, you have to wait until February 2, when the dragon looks up.

In the main traditional festivals in ancient times, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors is a major theme. Any ancient traditional festival has a strong festival sacrifice color and a set of simple or complex rituals. In many areas, beginning of spring offered sacrifices to his ancestors. For example, Guangdong's "Xin 'an County Records" says: "People are related to ancestral temples. Although the Spring Festival in beginning of spring is not as grand as it used to be, people's hopes are pinned on this day in beginning of spring, so there are still some special ways to welcome beginning of spring, such as "playing with spring", "biting spring", hanging windmills and having an outing.

The custom of recommending new ancestors in the Spring Temple was passed down to later generations and became an ancestor worship activity on the first day of the first month. In some places, if you don't clean the house for a few days after the first day of the first year, you are worried about going against the soul of your ancestors going home for the New Year. In some places, it is the latter custom that the garbage is not allowed to be taken out on the first day of the lunar new year.

Spring Festival is an important activity that begins in spring, and it must be prepared and rehearsed in advance, commonly known as spring performance. Then we can officially celebrate the Spring Festival in beginning of spring. The Spring Festival was held the day before beginning of spring, with the aim of bringing back spring and Ju Mang. After beginning of spring, people like to go out for a spring outing in spring, which is also the main form of spring outing.