Why not behead your head in the first month?

The statement that "my uncle died in the first month" actually stems from a "misunderstanding". After the Qing Dynasty, Han people were forced to shave their hair and braid their hair. They miss the former dynasty and are unwilling to do so. They refused to shave their heads in the first month to commemorate the old dynasty, which means they miss the old dynasty. "Dead Uncle" is a homonym of "thinking about the old", and it became "dead uncle" after being misinformed.

Since the Qing army entered the customs, the Qing emperor decided to implement the strange hairstyle of "pacifying the surrounding areas and leaving the Central Plains". He shaved his hair from the front to the top of his head, and then shaved off the hair around him, leaving only a long braid in the middle.

In order to unify the country, especially the ruling ideology, this hairstyle should be widely popularized in the Han Dynasty. The medium of realization is the barber. The Qing government recruited barbers from all over the country and gave everyone a sacred flagpole.

Under the high-pressure and gradually stable prosperous rule of the Qing Dynasty, the haircut policy was implemented normally. Some literati no longer shouted "no shaving", but expressed their yearning for the former dynasty with "no shaving in the first month", which was really "nostalgia" and was falsely called "dead uncle" in order to hide people's eyes and ears.

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Apart from "My uncle died of a haircut in the first month", there are many other misunderstood "folk customs".

1, Liangtouchun

It is understood that in some places, the year of "double-headed spring" is also called "the year of loneliness", and marriage is forbidden all year round, otherwise the husband and wife are not harmonious or the family is unstable.

However, according to astronomers' explanation, the "double-headed spring" in a year is caused by the parallel legislative system of Chinese lunar calendar and solar calendar, which is a normal calendar evolution and has nothing to do with the relationship between husband and wife and marriage.

The reason why the Year of the Loong in Renchen has "double-headed spring" is mainly because of the leap moon. Lunar calendar 13 month contains 25 solar terms. There will be a beginning of spring at the beginning of the year, and the next beginning of spring will appear at the end of the year. In fact, every year when there is a leap month in the lunar calendar is the year of "Er Quan".

2. the Year of the Loong was a bad year.

Because the shape of the traditional dragon is fierce, and many important events took place in the Year of the Loong, many people think that the Year of the Loong is unlucky. Folklore experts believe that a year is not unlucky, and the key lies in how people grasp it. If he grasps it well, his "bad year" will become a good year, and if he does not grasp it well, it will become a bad year.

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