It is a custom not to shave your head in the first month, so why can’t you shave your head in the fifth month?

The saying that you can’t shave your head in May only exists in a small number of areas, but not in many places. Let me tell you about the saying in a certain place in Yunnan that you don’t shave your head in May: 1. There is Dragon Boat Festival in May. There is a "Dragon Boat Festival", which is considered as the month of sacrifice, so the hair will not be lost.

May is the month of sacrifice in some areas. The Dragon Boat Festival they celebrate is not only the fifth day of May, but also divided into the "Little Dragon Boat Festival" and the "Big Dragon Boat Festival". The Small Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of May. The Dragon Boat Festival falls on May 15th. These two "Five Days" are related to sacrifices. They call this "Duanyang Festival".

Generally speaking, the ancients were very particular about their hair. During sacrifices, they generally did not lose their hair, otherwise there would be an unlucky saying of "following the ancestors". Therefore, people in these places have a saying of "sacrifice to the moon", and hair cannot be lost in this month, including the fetal hair of a full-month baby, which is not shaved. If a child is born in April, his first If you want to shave your head, it will be in June, generally not on the first or fifteenth day of the lunar month, and so on. Therefore, the fetal hair in some places will be longer than in other places, just because of customs. February and May are just hot in most areas. Generally, hair has been shaved by the end of April. There is no need to shave again in May.

Another reason is that the weather is getting hotter. In most areas, starting from mid-April on the lunar calendar (about two weeks after May Day), the weather will get hotter and hotter. Therefore, the end of April has always been the peak period for haircuts, and people's hair has to grow to A certain length will take 1-2 months. In this way, there is no need to cut your hair throughout May, because it will not grow too long at all. When most people only care about convenience and do not care about hair styles, in May, the custom of not needing a haircut has become a custom of "not having a haircut".

In general, not shaving your head in May is only a small area opinion. Most places do not have this particularity, so if you need to shave your head, it doesn’t matter if you go in May.